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Welcome................................................................................1 Welcome to DrawPlus X2 ...................................................................................... 3 New Features .................................................................................................... 4 Established features........................................................................................ 7 Registration, Upgrades and Support ......................................................13 Installation................................................................................................................14 System Requirements ..................................................................................14 First-time install..............................................................................................15 Manual install/re-install...............................................................................15 2. Getting Started................................................................. 17 Startup Wizard.........................................................................................................19 Starting with a Design Template ......................................................................20 Starting with a new drawing..............................................................................21 Opening a saved document...............................................................................22 Displaying drawings.....................................................................................23 Opening PDF documents....................................................................................23 Saving your work....................................................................................................24 Saving templates....................................................................................................24 Undoing/Redoing changes.................................................................................25 Closing DrawPlus....................................................................................................26 3. Setting up the Document ............................................ 27 Setting up a document ........................................................................................29 Using the page and pasteboard........................................................................30 Setting measurement units and drawing scale ...........................................31 Contents Rulers................................................................................................................. 31 Drawing scale ................................................................................................. 32 Moving rulers.................................................................................................. 33 Using snapping....................................................................................................... 36 Viewing pages......................................................................................................... 38 Zooming........................................................................................................... 38 View quality..................................................................................................... 39 Adding and deleting pages................................................................................ 40 Rotating your canvas ............................................................................................ 41 Updating defaults.................................................................................................. 42 Choosing object attributes ........................................................................ 44 Resetting defaults ......................................................................................... 45 4. Lines, Curves, and Shapes............................................ 47 Selecting one or more objects........................................................................... 49 Selecting multiple objects.......................................................................... 49 Selecting overlapping objects .................................................................. 51 Drawing lines and shapes ................................................................................... 51 Drawing lines.................................................................................................. 52 Drawing shapes ............................................................................................. 55 Editing lines and shapes...................................................................................... 57 Redrawing part of a curve .......................................................................... 57 Reshaping a line............................................................................................. 58 Simplifying or enhancing a line................................................................ 60 Changing nodes and line segments ....................................................... 61 Adjusting a shape.......................................................................................... 62 Joining lines together.................................................................................. 63 Using QuickShapes................................................................................................ 63 Working with connectors.................................................................................... 65 Connector types............................................................................................. 67 Using Auto Connectors ............................................................................... 67 Editing connection points and connectors .......................................... 69 Converting a shape to editable curves........................................................... 70 Contents Applying envelopes...............................................................................................70 Applying perspective............................................................................................72 Using the Gallery ....................................................................................................73 5. Brushes...............................................................................