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Chameleon 2.00
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by David Caughley & Paul LeBeau & Rob McKay
for 4Mation
March 1992
Chameleon is a Drawfile utility program. It allows the colours of Drawfiles
to be easily changed.
Operating Instructions
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To use Chameleon:
1. Load Chameleon by double clicking the SELECT mouse button on the
!Chameleon application.
2. Drawfiles can be loaded into Chameleon by dragging them onto the
Chameleon icon which is on the icon bar.
3. Use the toolbox & menu to select the operation to be performed.
4. Clicking on the picture will apply the current operation to the
target object(s) on which you click the SELECT mouse button.
5. Clicking on an object with ADJUST will take the colour from the object
(where you clicked) and use it as the current replacement color.
6. Double-clicking on a fountain filled object with ADJUST will
change the current operation to the same fountain fill as the
object, and the start & end colours will be copied from
the object.
Outline
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The "Outline" button (toolbox third row, second from right):
When the "Outline" button is on, all SELECT and ADJUST clicks will
only apply to the outline of a path object. The outline is also made
"thicker" when you click on it - making it easier to hit.
Fill
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The "Fill" button (toolbox third row, on the right):
When the "Fill" button is on, all SELECT and ADJUST clicks will
only apply to the fill of a path object. The outline is also made
"thicker" when you click on it - making it easier to hit objects
which have a transparent fill.
Furthermore, text objects and text areas are selected by their
bounding boxes when the "Fill" button is on.
Keys:
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SHIFT with SELECT or ADJUST Toggles the "Outline" button's effect.
with SELECT DRAG When dragging one end of an arrow,
pressing SHIFT will cause the whole
arrow (both ends) to move together.
CTRL with SELECT or ADJUST Toggles the "Fill" button's effect.
with SELECT DRAG When dragging one end of an arrow,
pressing CTRL will cause the angle
of the arrow to be limited to
mulitples of 15 degrees.
ARROW The arrow keys will move the mouse pointer in steps of one pixel.
KEYS
CTRL F2 Closes the current window.
F3 Save the current picture.
SHIFT F3 Save the current picture as a directory containing four drawfiles,
one each for the four standard colour separations C,M,Y,K.
CTRL F3 Save the current picture as a directory containing one drawfile
for every colour present (up to 64 separations).
F5 Toggle Full view on and off. Note that zooming is not available
whilst Full view is on.
CTRL F1 or
F6 Toggles the toolbox on and off.
F7 Toggle the "lock" on and off. When a window is locked, its picture
can't be altered by clicking SELECT on it.
F8 Undo the last colour change.
F9 Redo the last colour change that was undone.
PAGE UP Zoom in on the point where the mouse pointer is.
PAGE DOWN Zoom out from the point where the mouse pointer is.
HOME Restore the zooming factors to 1:1
Q,W,E,R,T
Select the options from the top row of the toolbox.
A,S,D,F,G,H,J
Select the options from the second row of the toolbox.
Z,X,C,V, ,N,M
Select the options from the third row of the toolbox.