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Tools
Drawing tools include: Line, Straight Line, Curve, Arc, Rectangle, Oval, Rounded Rectangle, Bezier Spline, Spline-Line, Poly Line, Freehand, Brush, Polygon Star, Interface "Box", Rich Text and Super Text.
Other types of graphics include: Text along any path, EPS,JPG,GIF & TIFF images, Groups, Box Groups, Mask Groups, Date & Page Markers.
Effects
Each graphic can contain some or all of the following PostScript effects:
Outline: Set the width, color and visibility of the stroke of an object.
Neon: Stone's unique Neon feature makes splashing, 3D lines.
Multiple: Each object can be repeated any number of times at any offset.
Skew : Torque and twist objects.
Shadow: Set the color, direction and offset of the object's shadow.
Shaded Fill: Fill objects with blended colors or lines:
across, down, radially.
Pattern Fill: PS Level II patterns that you create with Pattern Editor.
Group: Manage complexity by grouping objects. See also Levels below.
Mask Group: Clip any number of objects to the object on top of them
e.g., fill Super Text with a picture of a sunset.
Box Group: Groups objects in an interface box.
Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical.
Scale: Set the vertical and horizontal scaling separately or together.
Rotate: Using Stone's rotational slider, precisely rotate objects.
Copy and Paste effects from one graphic to another.
Color blends: Transparent colors, CMYK, RGB, HSB, and Grayscales.
Precise Design
Zoom: Unlimited zoom and custom zooms are remembered.
You can zoom in on an area with CONTROL-SHIFT drag.
Undo: As many levels of undo and redo as you like - 30 by default.
Object layering: Bring To Front, Bring Closer, Send to Back,
Send Further, Lock and Unlock.
Grids: Control grid spacing, color, visibility and "snap-to" independently.
Rulers: Work in points, picas, inches or centimeters.
Layers: Each page can be composed of independently
nameable, hideable, lockable layers.
Layout Guides for easy placement of objects.
Alignment: Align objects to top, bottom, middle, left, center and right.
Distribution: Distribute objects evenly left to right and/or top to bottom.
Nudge: Using arrow keys or Nudge inspector,
move objects precise amounts.
Each page can have a background image for tracing or presentation.
Define default colors of an object's effects.
Text Handling
2 Text types available: Super Text and Paragraph Text
Paragraph Text has full support for Rich Text Format:
multifont, multicolor, multi paragraph text.
Sub and superscripting, ligatures, kerning and line spacing.
Spell Checking.
Underline, italics, bold.
Super Text can have all of Create's effects applied to it.
Instantly place along rose, circle, upper or lower arc.
Optional background color.
Support for 2-byte fonts, like Kai-Su.
Convert Super Text to splines.
Place along any path: bind Super Text to Splines.
Convert Super Text to Paragraph Text and vice versa.
Automated Web Page Production
Document can create a single web page or a group
of interconnected pages.
Automatically builds graphical Table of Contents.
Produces easy-to-read HTML which can be edited by hand.
Optional navigation bars on top and/or bottom of web pages.
Set the color of the background, text and links with simple user interface.
Specify a background image URL.
Custom HTML: Document titles can have a custom prefix,
such as the site name, and add your own custom
header and/or footer to each page.
Set the quality of the JPEG images created for export.
Configure HTML Preferences per document and per page.
Multiple Pages
Add, Copy, Paste, Duplicate or Delete pages.
Reorder pages with easy interface.
"Play" (continuously loop through) pages.
Automated pagination with Page Marker.
Splines and Lines
Add and delete handles, Join and separate splines and lines.
Turn objects into splines. Tighten, Loosen and Animate splines.
Reverse path of splines and polylines.
Import/Export
Import EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, and native file formats.
Autotrace: Converts scanned images to editable graphics.
Export as EPS, PS, TIFF, JPEG, Ascii, RTF, HTML,
CreateImage and Create.
TIFF Export: Control bit depth, alpha and compression method.
Linking
Embed Create graphics in other documents with Object Linking.
Paste and Link other application's graphics and text into Create.
Exported EPS can be reimported and edited.
True object links with no redundant storage.
Online Help, Sample Art and Custom Art
Context sensitive help
Online Create Manual
Online Tutorial
Sample art provided
Your custom art and group art can be loaded as menu items.
Entire searchable manual in HTML available at www.stone.com.
Expert Features
Preferences: Customizations that control every aspect of Create.
User PostScript Editor: An environment where you can
write and execute PostScript programs.
Open, execute, modify and save PS files.
Templates: You can create new documents from
existing ones for stationary, forms, etc.
Automatic access to your private and group directories.
Plug-In Tools: Add Dynamically Loaded Plug-Ins as
they become available.
Video is an example of a Plug-In.
Animator Module: The animator module allows you to create movies.
Pattern Editor: Create PostScript Level II patterns using all
of the effects and tools. Embeds patterns in
your document for use by others.
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