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- RIPdraw vs. RIPaint Feature List
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- RIPdraw has these features:
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- ■ Supports RIPscrip graphics primitives in a graphical Fourth Generation
- Language (4GL) What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) design interface.
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- ■ Direct loading and saving of RIPscrip scenes. These files can be put in
- message bases, or sent as electronic mail on host systems with or without
- RIPscrip graphics. You can post graphical advertisements, bulletins, visual
- on-line catalogs and much more.
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- ■ 16 color 640x350 mode with object oriented editing capabilities.
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- ■ Context sensitive, keyword-driven help system.
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- ■ Floating Toolbox contains frequently used commands.
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- ■ Multi-level Undo ability. Undo a scene even after saving and reloading!
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- ■ Simultaneous text and graphics windows. View graphics in one window, and
- ANSI/ASCII text in another at the same time.
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- ■ Choose from many built-in graphical drawing modes like Line, Circle, Ellipse,
- Rectangle, Arc, Bezier Curve, Pie Slice and more.
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- ■ Built-in sizable, colored fonts.
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- ■ Editable Fill Patterns and Line Patterns for an appealing look and feel for
- your images.
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- ■ User-definable Grid Snap for precise work and creating technical drawings.
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- ■ Cut and paste of screen regions. This is used primarily as a transmission
- savings mechanism. Rather than transmitting one thing many times, tell the
- terminal to cut and paste on its own screen.
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- ■ Easy to use color palette editor. Create 16 color palettes by selecting from
- the 64-color palette.
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- ■ 90 page typeset bound manual, with tutorial, RIPscrip language reference,
- in-depth Button and Host Command Text Variable reference, and plenty of
- graphic examples to refer to.
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- ■ On-line mouse support. Define up to 128 mouse fields to control how the
- terminal responds to the host. Something new to the on-line world: a fully
- mouse-driven user interface!
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- ■ Microsoft(TM) Windows compatible (but not required).
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- RIPaint includes these additional features:
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- ■ Runs in Protected mode - use all that Extended Memory!
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- ■ Optimization of scenes for best possible on-line performance.
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- ■ MicroANSI fonts -- have text windows with different font sizes.
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- ■ Control individual scene settings, such as maximum column width of RIPscrip
- code, reset window option, kill existing Mouse Fields, Auto-Optimization of
- scene, and more.
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- ■ Button command allows the combination of several drawing capabilities together
- in one command. This makes the display of clickable buttons very fast and
- easy to do.
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- ■ Zoom-mode Icon Editor for bitmap graphics creation/editing, plus use of icons
- in scenes.
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- ■ Numerically edit object values for precise manipulation of image
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- ■ Ability to change a specific palette entry, rather than the entire palette.
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- ■ Ability to specify Project Directories, and easily switch between them.
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- ■ 230 page typeset manual in a binder, with tutorial, RIPscrip language
- reference, in-depth Button and Host Command Text Variable reference, and lots
- of graphic examples to refer to.
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- ■ IconList program reports icon files used by RIPscrip files.
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- ■ Icon conversion programs. Convert PCX, IMG, TIF or MacPaint files to RIPscrip
- icon format.
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- ■ Future versions will support 256 and 16.7 million colors, compressed RIP
- files, sound support, faster graphics output, transmittable bitmaps (such as
- JPEG files), and much more.
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- Last Updated: 30-Apr-93
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- 16458 Bolsa Chica #15 714/379-2132 Fax
- Huntington Beach, CA 92649 714/379-2133 BBS
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