Help For Soft Paint

OVERVIEW Welcome to SoftPaint. Using SoftPaint should be intuitive. Most of the menus and tools are standard items you have probably seen in several other programs already. The way these tools are used may be a little different, but those differences should be easy to understand. If you do need help, this help window is available at any time. File Menu The File Menu ------------------- • New ( Command N ) “New” will create a new window and allow you to start working on the new document. If you run out of memory when attempting to create a new document, you will be alerted and the new document will not be created. • Open ... ( Command O ) “Open” brings up a dialog box which will allow you to open a document from a file saved previously to disk. As with New, if you run out of memory when attempting to open a document, you will be alerted and the document will not be opened. • Close ( Command W ) “Close” will close the current window. If it has not been saved since the last change, it will give you the opportunity to save the document before closing. • Save ( Command S ) “Save” will save the current document to any disk. • Save As ... “Save As” will bring up a dialog box which will allow you to save the current document under a new name. • Save as MacPaint ... “Save as MacPaint” will bring up a dialog box which allow you to save the current document as a MacPaint document. • Revert “Revert” allows you to quickly return to the last saved version of a document. • Document Size “Document Size” is a hierarchichal menu which allows you to select between a Portrait (8 x 10) and a Landscape (10 x 8) page size. File Menu • Page Setup ... “Page Setup” allows you to set up the page alignment. With the LaserWriter Page Setup allows you to scale the entire page. • Print ... ( Command P ) Prints the current document. High quality and standard quality are supported. Draft quality is not supported (draft printing only works with text files). The LaserWriter has a different sized page than the ImageWriter, so a section along the right side of the document will not be printed unless you select “96%” or less from “Page Setup.” • Print Selection ... This will print the current selection. The selection will be printed in the upper left corner of the page regardless of its location within the document. • Quit ( Command Q ) Obviously. 2 Edit Menu The Edit Menu ------------------- • Undo ( Command Z ) “Undo” is fully supported in SoftPaint. • Cut ( Command X ) “Cut” will cut the selection from the window and place it in the clipboard. You can then paste it into other programs (like MacPaint or SuperPaint) or into the scrapbook for later use. • C…