Drawplus X5 User Guide
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How to Contact Us Our main office The Software Centre (UK, Europe): PO Box 2000, Nottingham, NG11 7GW, UK Main: (0115) 914 2000 Registration (UK only): (0800) 376 1989 Sales (UK only): (0800) 376 7070 Customer Service/ Technical Support: http://www.support.serif.com/ General Fax: (0115) 914 2020 North American office The Software Center, (USA, Canada): 17 Hampshire Drive, Suites 1& 2, Hudson, NH 03051, USA Main: (603) 889-8650 Registration: (800) 794-6876 Sales: (800) 55-SERIF or 557-3743 Customer Service/ Technical Support: http://www.support.serif.com/ General Fax: (603) 889-1127 Online Visit us on the web at: http://www.serif.com/ International Please contact your local distributor/dealer. For further details, please contact us at one of our phone numbers above. Credits This User Guide, and the software described in it, is furnished under an end user License Agreement, which is included with the product. The agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses. Trademarks DrawPlus is a registered trademark of Serif (Europe) Ltd. All Serif product names are trademarks of Serif (Europe) Ltd. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks acknowledged. Windows Vista and the Windows Vista Start button are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Adobe Flash is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Wacom, the logo and Intuos are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Wacom Company, Ltd. Copyrights Digital Images © 2008 Hemera Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved. Digital Images © 2008 Jupiterimages Corporation, All Rights Reserved. Digital Images © 2008 Jupiterimages France SAS, All Rights Reserved. Bitstream Font content © 1981-2005 Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved. Portions graphics import/export technology © LEAD Technologies, Inc. & Eastman Kodak Company. Panose Typeface Matching System © 1991, 1992, 1995-1997 Hewlett-Packard Corporation. The Sentry Spelling-Checker Engine © 2000 Wintertree Software Inc. PANTONE® Colors displayed in the software application or in the user documentation may not match PANTONE-identified standards. Consult current PANTONE Color Publications for accurate color. PANTONE® and other Pantone, Inc. trademarks are the property of Pantone, Inc. © Pantone, Inc., 2005. Pantone, Inc. is the copyright owner of color data and/or software which are licensed to Serif (Europe) Ltd. to distribute for use only in combination with DrawPlus. PANTONE Color Data and/or Software shall not be copied onto another disk or into memory unless as part of the execution of DrawPlus. FontForge © 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008 by George Williams. Portions of this software are copyright © 2008 The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org). All rights reserved. Anti-Grain Geometry - Version 2.4 © 2002-2005 Maxim Shemanarev (McSeem) TrueType font samples from Serif FontPacks © Serif (Europe) Ltd. © 2011 Serif (Europe) Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this User Guide may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of Serif (Europe) Ltd. Serif DrawPlus X5 © 1991-2011 Serif (Europe) Ltd. All rights reserved. Companies and names used in samples are fictitious. Contents 1. Welcome ............................................................ 1 Existing features ...................................................................................................... 3 New features .......................................................................................................... 12 Installation .............................................................................................................. 15 2. Getting Started ................................................. 17 Startup Wizard ...................................................................................................... 19 Starting with a new drawing .......................................................................... 20 Opening a saved document............................................................................ 24 Opening other file types ................................................................................... 25 Saving your work ................................................................................................. 29 Closing DrawPlus ................................................................................................. 30 Updating defaults................................................................................................ 30 3. Working with Pages ......................................... 33 Using the page and pasteboard.................................................................... 35 Setting measurement units and drawing scale ...................................... 35 Using snapping..................................................................................................... 41 Viewing pages ....................................................................................................... 45 Adding and deleting pages............................................................................. 48 Using design aids ................................................................................................. 49 4. Lines, Curves, and Shapes ............................. 57 Selecting one or more objects ....................................................................... 59 Drawing lines and shapes ................................................................................ 61 Editing lines and shapes ................................................................................... 68 Using QuickShapes ............................................................................................. 75 Contents Converting a shape to editable curves .......................................................77 Connectors ..............................................................................................................78 Adding dimension lines and labels...............................................................82 Using the Gallery...................................................................................................85 Using graphic styles ............................................................................................86 5. Using Brushes ................................................. 91 Selecting brushes .................................................................................................93 Applying brush strokes ......................................................................................94 6. Working with Text ............................................ 97 Entering text ...........................................................................................................99 Editing text ........................................................................................................... 101 Using fonts ........................................................................................................... 103 Fitting text to frames and shapes ............................................................... 108 Fitting text to a path ........................................................................................ 109 Spell-checking .................................................................................................... 110 Using Auto-Correct and Spell as you Type ............................................. 112 7. Working with Objects ..................................... 115 Copying, pasting, cutting, and deleting objects .................................. 117 Cloning an object .............................................................................................. 118 Copying an object's formatting .................................................................. 120 Moving objects ................................................................................................... 121 Resizing objects.................................................................................................. 121 Rotating and shearing objects ..................................................................... 123 Cutting up objects ............................................................................................ 125 Erasing and adding to objects ..................................................................... 128 Cropping and clipping objects .................................................................... 129 Joining objects ................................................................................................... 130 Flipping objects.................................................................................................. 134 Contents Locking/unlocking an object ........................................................................ 135 Grouping objects ............................................................................................... 135 Aligning and distributing objects............................................................... 136 Ordering objects ................................................................................................ 137 Working with layers .......................................................................................... 139 8. Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency ......... 145 Setting fill properties.......................................................................................