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DrawWorks NEW Millennium

Award winning DrawWorks package. Supplied on CD with over 540Mb of applications, fonts, clip art and resources. Until we introduced DrawWorks THIRD Millennium this was the best graphics package for RISC OS. Included are new full versions of Mr Clippy, FontFiend, Typography 2500 and ViVID graphics enhancers for non Risc PC computers.
New Millennium offers all the features of DrawWorks Millennium and lots more, including:

Main features

  • On screen anti-aliasing
  • Background font blending
  • Set the default line width for Draw
  • User selectable Grade and Interpolate levels
  • Line width scalling nudge buttons
  • Preferences option for Draw's default grade & interpolate levels
  • Writable options for grid spacing and divisions.
  • Always available on screen manual as well as printed manual

Toolbar features

  • Autoscrolling toolbars that follow the mouse pointer
  • Nudge buttons for font size, height and line width.
  • Shows currently selected font size and line width ticked on menus.
  • Writable pointsize and height options on font menus.
  • Extended versions of Draws line width and point size menus.

    Import and Export Tools

    • TIFF import and 24 bit TIFF export at up to 1200dpi
    • JPEG import and export up to 1200 dpi with anti-aliasing
    • Export as sprite up to 1200 dpi with anti-aliasing
    • GIF import and export at up to 1200 dpi with anti-aliasing
    • PNG import and export
    • Export as SVG
    • Import and export as WMF
    • Import Artworks files
    • Import or export as Illustrator EPS
    • OLE editing of Sprite & JPEG images
    • OLE editing of text areas
  • Bolt-on toolbar, allows other apps to be integrated into DrawWorks.
  • Metaliser tool to shade objects with metallic tones
  • FontFiend replaces Dr Fonty as font editor
  • Tracing of Bitmap images to convert them to vectors
  • Replace any colour with any other colour
  • Keep one colour intact while replacing other colours
  • Colour fitter - convert colours to their nearest named or Puretint equivalents
  • Object rotation dialogue box
  • Nudge buttons to rotate in 1 degree steps
  • Flip objects in both X and Y Axis
  • Object scaling dialogue box plus 5% nudge buttons.
  • Scale an objects line widths without altering its size
  • iDesigner font suggestion tool now integrated into DrawWorks
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    Improvements to existing features

  • Soft edged shadows
  • Use PureTint and named colours for shadows
  • Use PureTint and named colours in the lining tool
  • Automatically produce darker shades of named colours
  • Control over grey component replacement when producing CMYK separations
  • Anti-aliasing of JPEG images
  • Export of sprites and GIFs at up to 1200dpi
  • Import bitmap images as either 8 or 24bpp
  • Import ArtWorks files as bitmaps
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    EPS (PostScript) improvements

  • Improved EPS importer
  • Adobe Illustrator 7 PostScript previews
  • Include sprites in Illustrator EPS files
  • Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts with full hinting
  • Integrated PostScript compatible font names database.
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    Additional features (using supplied bolt-on applications)

  • Improved on screen rendering & dithering in 256 colour modes.
  • Drawing of other shapes such as polygons, stars and crosses.
  • Simple perspective drawing tool.
  • Produce rotated and transformed patterns from objects.
  • Gamma colour control for RISC PC monitors.
  • Design on screen graph paper.
  • Produce spirograph type patterns.
  • Text based scripting langauge for producing Drawfiles.
  • Export as WMF files.
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    Mr Clippy

  • Now fully ImageFS2 compatible
  • Auto conversion of upper case clip names from a CD
  • Over 800 new high quality clip art examples
  • New ClippyCopy - transfer clip art groups from old versions of Mr Clippy
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    Typography 2500

  • Over 350 new fully hinted and kerned fonts
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    FontFiend

  • PostScript Type1 font export with hinting
  • Full automatic hinting system including scaffolds and skeletons
  • Automatic character builder with EURO symbol support
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    General

  • Tested on RISCOS 4 and other versions of RISCOS
  • Over 540Mb of applications, fonts & clips, Requires OS 3.6+, 8Mb Ram, CD-ROM
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    Comments

  • "A killer app..." Chris Hughes (Wakefield Acorn User Group)
    • This Web site was hand coded by iSV products.
    All contents are © iSV products 1999
    Graphics constructed using DrawWorks Millennium