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- 9 Tips to make PageDraw 1.7 fun and easy to use.
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- 1. To find out what a toolbar button is for, rest your mouse
- pointer on the button for a few seconds. A brief description
- of the button's purpose will appear on the status bar.
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- 2. If your PC has fast graphics hardware, you can edit in preview
- mode. If your PC is relatively old, for best performance, you
- must edit with Preview turned off. Use Preview mode only to
- change color, pattern, or to make other final adjustments.
- To turn Preview on or off, choose Preview from the View menu.
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- 3. To move an object, click on the edge of the object (not inside
- the object) and drag. To edit an object, first select the object
- then drag any handle.
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- 4. The shift key can modify the action of many tools. For example,
- you can add more objects to a selection by holding down the
- shift key while using the selection tool.
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- 5. What to do if you find rotation, scaling, skewing or reflection
- hard to control: After clicking the 'origin' point (the point
- around which you want to rotate, scale, skew or reflect), move
- the mouse away from the origin horizontally and vertically, then
- click anywhere and drag. The farther you move the mouse away from
- the origin, the better the control.
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- 6. You can view and edit a drawing in portrait or landcape mode.
- Choose Orientation from View menu.
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- 7. To edit existing text, select the text tool and click on the
- baseline of the text you would like to edit.
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- 8. PageDraw uses a subset of the PostScript language for saving
- files. If you know the PostScript language, PageDraw's file
- format is self-documenting. PageDraw's file format is similar
- to the Adobe Illustrator 88 file format. PageDraw can read most
- drawings in Adobe Illustrator format. You can ftp AI format
- documentation from ftp.adobe.com. If you are a programmer you
- can make your application generate files in AI format, and
- PageDraw will be able to read and edit them.
- Also, you can use PageDraw to edit arbitrary PostScript files
- by converting the PostScript file to AI format using Ghostscript.
- (See PS2AI.WRI).
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- 9. And finally, if you would like to uninstall PageDraw, just delete
- all the files in PageDraw directory. PageDraw 1.7 does not create
- or modify any files in your Windows directory. (Why aren't all
- programs this nice?)
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- If you want to read this again later, this file is TIPS.TXT in the
- PageDraw directory.
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