•Brief Overview of the Overall Functionality
•Points to note about operation
Brief Overview of the Overall Functionality
The following properties can be displayed or run as functions:
•Color, Overprint, Transparency, Color Mixture
•Geometry (line weights, line pattern, line shapes, fill rules)
•Fill / Box on/off
•Position, Size, Rotate
·Image and smooth shading properties can not be edited!
•Selection of objects ("All", "Nothing", "Invert", "By Color", "By Type", "By Color and Type")
•Delete, duplicate objects, put objects to front or back
•Create new spot color using the list box and "New…"
•Edit the compression mode for compressed images
•Convert indexed images to normal images
•Color picker supports measuring in images and shades
•The color picker remains active if you keep the Shift key pressed during measuring (for repeated measuring).
•The values are displayed in the message pane during measuring with the color picker (color space and color values)
•Editing of axial and radial smooth shades
•Undo/Redo (selection of objects is maintained)
•Ungroup text into words or characters
•Create new graphic objects using the context menu and using buttons
•Rectangle/Square (with Shift key)
•Ellipse / Circle (with Shift key)
•Freehand polygons / Bézier curves with the Path Editor
•Edit individual outline points with the Path Editor
•Positioning of objects also possible with arrow keys / Shift + Tab + arrow key = bigger displacement steps
•Rotating of an object by specifying the rotation angle
Points to note about operation
•When several objects are selected, there are restrictions regarding possible changes.
•Positioning, size changes, scaling, rotating and mirroring are possible also on several selected objects.
•You can execute the following functions only if the selected objects are of the "Text" and/or "Graphic" type and all have identical properties:
·Changing the fill or box color
·Changing overprint or transparency properties
·Changing the box properties
·Enabling / disabling fills or boxes
•Tip: If you wish to change the fill color of several graphics in the same way, you can first deselect the fill and afterwards select it again. The same also applies to the border color and border properties.
More details can be found in Editing the path with the Path Editor.