274 Index Gallery tab, 83 Layers tab, 129 Line tab, 141 Pressure tab, 255 Storyboard tab, 214 Swatches tab, 137, 146, 149, 152, 154 Transform tab, 114, 118, 121 Transparency tab, 157 STV format, 232 SVG/SVGZ, 26 Swatch tab, 137, 146, 149, 152, 154 SWF export, 231 Synchronize defaults, 51 system requirements, 15 tab Actions, 212, 225 Align, 126 Brushes, 87 Color, 14, 137, 147 Easing, 212, 229 Effects, 192 Frames, 207 Gallery, 83 Layers, 129 Line, 141 Pressure, 255 Storyboard, 214 Swatch, 137, 146, 149, 152, 154 Transform, 114, 118, 121 Transparency, 157 tablet, 259 templates, 20 text artistic, 95 entering, 96 blending, 184 combining, cropping, and joining, 124 converting to editable curves, 73 defaults, 51 editing, 97 entering, 95 fitting, to path, 12, 101 formatting, 98 frame, 95 entering, 96 overflow, 99 positioning in frames and shapes, 100 resizing, 100 retyping, 98 setting defaults, 51 shape, 95 entering, 96 spell checking, 102 Unicode, 97 textures paper, 195 three color fills, 149 three points transparency, 158 tiling Bitmap and Plasma fills, 153 printing, 239, 241 tint, 139 adjusting, 139 Tool Artistic Text, 96 Blend, 184 Color Picker, 144 Connector, 77 Crop, 110 Dimension, 81 Envelope, 75 Erase, 117
Fill, 149, 152 Frame Text, 96 Freeform Paint, 118 Knife, 114 Mesh Fill, 154 Node, 57, 66 Paintbrush, 87, 89 Pen, 60, 62 Pencil, 60 Perspective, 74 Pointer, 57 QuickShape, 72 Rotate, 57, 120 Roughen, 186 Shadow, 187 Straight Line, 60, 61 Transparency, 157 tracing, 169 color bitmaps, 169 creating custom pr<strong>of</strong>iles for, 172 grayscale bitmaps, 169 logos, 169 photos, 169 pr<strong>of</strong>iles, 169 Transform tab for precise repositioning, 114 for precise resizing, 118 for precise rotation and shearing, 121 transparency 3D, 194 effects, 157 Index 275 path, 159 pictures with, 165 Transparency tab, 157 Transparency Tool, 157 TWAIN images importing, 180 tweened objects, 211 ungrouping objects, 123 Unicode text, 97 vector graphics, 163 vector objects, 169 Vector-cropped bitmap, 166 Video export (Keyframe animation), 232 View All Layers, 133 Web, 205 animations, 205 export settings, 243 previewing in browser, 210, 218 Weight <strong>of</strong> line (width), 143 Welcome to DrawPlus, 3 windows multiple, 50 Wizard Border, 183 Registration, 3 Startup, 19, 21 workspace choosing, 20 zero point, 33 Zoom blur, 190 zooming, 43
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Table of Contents 1. Welcome ......
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Welcome 3 Welcome to DrawPlus X4—
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Design Welcome 5 • View Quality D
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Installation System Requirements Mi
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2 Getting Started
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Startup Wizard Getting Started 19 O
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Getting Started 21 If the design is
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Opening AutoCAD files Getting Start
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Setting up a document Working with
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Working with Pages 33 Setting measu
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Creating guides Working with Pages
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Using divine proportions Working wi
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