The Illustration Window Tool Palette resides in the bottom left corner of the window itself. Six tools are available. The first one, the Selection Tool allows you to click once on any object with the mouse to select that object. By dragging with the selection tool, you can select multiple objects in the Illustration Window.
The Text Tool allows you to place typed text anyplace in the Illustration Window. Click the mouse at the location you wish to place the text and then just type. The text generated can be edited using standard cut and paste operations and attributes such as Color, Font, Style, and Size. To edit text after it has already been entered, double-click on the text itself. New text will always appear in the same font, size, style, and color as the previously entered text unless it is the first text to be entered in the window, in which case it will use the values set in the Preferences Submenu under the Format Menu.
The Line Tool can be used to generate lines. Select this tool and then drag the mouse from the starting to the finishing location for the line you wish to draw. Once drawn, the line can be altered by using the Lines Submenu under the Format Menu. In addition to line width and color, you can set the direction of the line (which end or ends to place arrowheads), and if the line has arrowheads, you can adjust the shape of the arrowheads. Holding the shift key down when moving an end or creating a new line, will confine the angle of the line on the screen line to increments of 45°. As with Text, newly created lines will have the same attributes as the most recently created previous lines, or will reflect the Preferences settings.
The Rectangle, Round Rectangle, and Ellipse Tools can be used to generate shapes useful in depicting illustrative graphics. Using the Send to Back and Bring to Front menu options under the Illustration Menu, different objects can be arranged as desired. Holding the shift key down when creating or editing a rectangle or round rectangle will constrain the shape to a square. Holding the shift key down when creating or editing an ellipse will constrain the shape to a circle.
Any Illustration can be saved as a PICT file to be used by other programs.
