!OpenVector Manual

Many years ago, RISC OS only had !Draw. A programmer, Jonathan Marten liked the idea but found it lacking much that he wanted to do: he is an engineer (as well as a programmer) and found it lacking in engineering ability. So he wrote an improved version of Draw and called it DrawPlus. It was (and still is) !Draw with bells and whistles. Then the company 4Mation contacted J.M. and asked him to do an improved package for commercial sale: that package was !Vector - DrawPlus with more rosettes and flags. As Risc OS declined, !Vector was released into the public domain. Now Christopher Martin has taken it over introducing yet more improvements! You can get the latest version of OpenVector from Chris Martin's www site, where he also has OpenGridPro and DrawPlus, all of which he maintains. It should be clear from the above that, if you use !Draw at all there really is no reason why you should not use !OpenVector in its place. Preface 1 Introduction RISC OS Basics, the !OpenVector Window, the Toolbox 2 The File menu Loading and saving document, different file-types, printing, setting up and print options 3 The Drawing menu Rulers and scales, grids and layers 4 The Display menu Page magnification, constraint, how objects behave when moved 5 The Create Menu Creating objects lines, irregular shapes, squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses, polygons. 6 The Select menu Selecting, copying, ordering and grouping objects 7 Editing Editing objects 8 Libraries What they are and how to use them 9 The Arrange menu Rotating, scaling, aligning objects in different ways 10 Text Producing, importing, changing and editing text; fonts, sizes, colours, distortions. 12 The Path/mask menu Line widths, colours patterns; filled and overlaid lines 12 The Special menu Special effects, further effects with text, bounding boxes, replicates, skeletons and masking parts of objects 13 The Choices menu Setting some defaults