Manual Art Line UK

ArtLine™ English version 3 User’s Guide © Free Soft S.A. Developed by Jean-Christophe Godart and Renaud Pattyn Free Soft S.A. Rue Léon Deladrière, 9 1300 Limal - Belgium Phone : 32-10-41 10 89 Fax : 32-10-41 91 33 http://www.freesoft.be email : info@freesoft.be TABLE OF CONTENTS I INTRODUCTION 1 INSTALL 3 Configuration required 5 Backup of disks 5 Installing software 5 Installing the protection key 7 Installing Twain driver 8 Starting up ArtLine 8 Updating the software 9 RUN-TROUGH 11 The screen 13 Menu bar 14 Working window 14 The tool palette 15 The colour palette 16 Modify the view 17 Scroll bars 17 Hand tool 17 Magnifier tool 18 View menu 18 Basic procedures 19 Select 19 Cut- Copy - Paste 20 Clear 21 Undo 21 Displacements 21 Creating a path 22 Editing a path 22 Importing an EPS file 23 Importing an image for vectorizing 23 Vectorize an image 23 Aligning the artwork and the image 24 Sharpening corners 24 II TABLE OF CONTENTS Aligning points of horizontal and vertical lines 24 Aligning points of oblique lines 25 Smoothing curves 25 Saving the document 26 Quitting the application 26 SAVE TIME 27 Keyboard shortcuts 29 Menus 29 File Menu 29 Edit Menu 30 Object Menu 31 Path Menu 31 View Menu 31 Dialogues 32 Tools in the pa…