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Adding and Deleting Tile-Holders

You can change the size and shape of your border by adding and deleting the tile-holders which make up the border. Ornamatica relies on having a consistent number of tiles on opposite sides of the border so when you add a tile-holder to one side of the border you must add one to the other. For this reason Ornamatica treats the border as made up of rows and columns of pairs of tile-holders.

On the Edit menu is the option to Add Row/Column or Delete Row/Column

To remove tile-holders simply choose the Delete Row/Column option and move the cursor back onto the border. As you move over the border the cursor will change to show you what action is available as described below. Move the cursor onto the tile-holder you want to remove and click.

  No Action Will Be Taken

 Delete a Row

 Delete a Column

You can add tile-holders in a similar way by selecting Add Row/Column from the Edit menu and move the cursor back onto the border. Again the cursor will change to show you what action will be taken at that point. Move the cursor to the gap between two tile-holders where you want the extra tile-holder to be placed and click.

 No Action Will Be Taken

 Add a Row

 Add a Column

You can also add and delete tile-holders by editing the numbers of tiles on the Border Properties dialog. You will need to use this method if there is no gap between your tile-holders.

Removing Graphics from Tiles


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Auto Border

Select Auto Corner from the Border menu

This function automatically formats both sides and corners by rotating each 90 degrees in relation to the preceding one. It is equivalent to using both Auto Corner and Auto Side.

For this function to be available you must have placed a graphic into the top left corner and the first side tile-holder to the right of this corner.

This function duplicates the size and contents of the tiles used in the top left hand corner and first tile of the side alongside it. It repeats these tiles around the border so it should be used before any changes to individual tiles.

Auto Corner

Auto Sides


Auto Corner

Select Auto Corner from the Border menu

This option automatically formats the corners of your border, starting with the one in the top left and rotating each subsequent corner by 90 degrees in respect to the preceding one thus...

You must have placed a graphic into the top left corner for this to be available.

This function duplicates the size and contents of the tiles used in the top left hand corner and first tile of the side alongside it. It repeats these tiles around the border so it should be used before any changes to individual tiles.


Auto Sides

Select Auto Sides from the Border menu

This option automatically formats the sides of your border, starting with top one and rotating each subsequent side by 90 degrees in respect to the preceding one thus...

You must have placed a graphic into the the first tile-holder of the top for this function to be available.

This function duplicates the size and contents of the tiles used in the first tile of the top side. It repeats these tiles around the border so it should be used before any changes to individual tiles.

Auto Border

Auto Corner


Basic Techniques

You build an Ornamatica border by placing graphics in the tile-holders which make up the border.

Placing Graphics using Drag and Drop

Filling More than One Tile at a Time

Selecting Multiple Tiles

Formatting Borders Automatically

Removing Graphics from Tiles

Replacing Graphics in Tiles

Using External Graphics

Editing the Galleries

The graphics in the tiles of your border can be positioned and enhanced in several different ways.

Flipping and Mirroring Tiles

Flipping and Mirroring the Whole Border

Rotating Graphics in Tiles

Adding Frames to Tiles

One of the benefits of using Ornamatica is that you can make borders to fit the area you want to use rather than the other way round. You can change the size of your border by changing the size of the tiles, the number of tiles or the overall size of the border.

Resizing Tiles

Resizing the Whole Border

Adding and Deleting Tiles

What's the Best Way of Designing My Border to a Particular Size

When you have finished your border you can store it on disk, print it out or use it in another program

Saving Your Border to be Used Later

Printing Your Border

Using Your Border in Other Programs

How do I put text inside my border?


Border Properties Roll-Up

This roll-up dialog provides access to the basic properties of the whole border.

It allows you to edit the dimensions of the border, the number of tiles it contains and the spacing between the tiles.

You can edit any of  the values by typing the required amount directly into the relevant edit box or by using the spin buttons to increase or decrease the value as required.

When you have set the values you want you must apply the changes by clicking on the Change button.

You can set the units of measurement used on this dialog via the Preferences option.

Related Topics

Resizing the Whole Border

Resizing Individual Tiles


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Change Orientation

select Change Orientation from the Border menu

This function changes the whole border from portrait to landscape or vice versa by rotating it in a clockwise direction.

If you want the page itself to change to match the border orientation you can do this separately via the Preferences dialog.


Commands

File Menu

New

Open

Save

Save As

Import

Export

Edit Galleries

Preferences

Print

Print Setup

Exit

Edit Menu

Undo

Redo

Cut

Copy

Paste

Select

Border

Sides

Corners

Add Row/Column

Delete Row/Column

Border Menu

Auto Corners

Auto Sides

Auto Border

Flip

Mirror

Change Orientation

Tile Menu

Flip

Mirror

Remove Graphic

Display Menu

Show Border Properties

Show Galleries

Show Graphic Properties

Show All Roll-Ups

Close All Roll-Ups

Arrange Roll-Ups

Display Graphics

Show Tileholders

Toolbar

Status Bar

Zoom

Help Menu

Help


Contents

ORDERING INFORMATION

Read This First

Important information about Ornamatica including details of features included or altered since the manual went to press.

Quick Start

A brief introduction to how Ornamatica works.

Basic Techniques

The basic techniques required for building borders with Ornamatica

Hints and Tips

Ideas for getting the most from Ornamatica including design ideas and suggestions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers and suggestions for the common questions about Ornamatica

Technical Support

How to obtain help and technical support.

Reference Guide

A comprehensive list and definition of the functions and commands and what they do.


Copy

select Copy from the Edit menu	Ctrl+C

This function copies all the currently-selected tiles to the clipboard to be available for pasting into another application or back into an Ornamatica tile. The originals are left in place.

If multiple tiles are selected their relative positions are maintained.

If the whole border is selected either as a whole or as individual tiles then the whole border will be copied to the clipboard.

This function is very useful for copying a border, corner or decorative line to the clipboard to be pasted into another application.

Cut

Paste


Cursors

There are a number of different cursors used by Ornamatica which indicate the action which will take place if you click at that point, as follows...

The following three cursors appear when you are dragging a graphic from the gallery palette over the border.

No Graphic

This shows you have a tile on your cursor but that you cannot drop it at your current position. If you release the mouse button at this point the graphic will be lost.

Place Graphic

This cursor appears when you are over a tile and shows that your chosen image will be placed in the tile-holder underneath. If this is one of a series of tiles you have selected the chosen graphic will also be placed in any selected tiles.

Insert Graphic

This cursor appears when you are over a gap between the tile-holders. It indicates that a new tile will be inserted at this point and the chosen graphic will be placed in this rather than in one of the existing tile-holders.

The next five cursors are used when you are adding or deleting a row or column of tiles via the Edit menu...

 No Go

This cursor shows that no action is available at the current cursor position.

 Insert Column

This indicates that an additional tile will be placed in the top and bottom sides of the border. It will only be available if the cursor is over a gap between two tiles.

 Insert Row

This indicates that an additional tile will be added to the left and right sides of the border. It will only be available if the cursor is over a gap between two tiles.

 Delete Column

This indicates that a tile will be removed from the top and bottom sides of the border. It will only be available if the cursor is over a tile.

 Delete Row

This indicates that a tile will be removed from the left and right sides of the border. It will only be available if the cursor is over a tile.


Cut

select Cut from the Edit menu	Ctrl+X

This function copies all the currently-selected tiles to the clipboard to be available for pasting into another application or back into an Ornamatica tile. It then deletes the graphics and frames from the selected tile-holders.

If multiple tiles are selected their relative positions are maintained.

If the whole border is selected either as a whole or as individual tiles then the whole border will be copied to the clipboard and then emptied.

This can be used to move graphics around in a border.

Copy

Paste


Display Graphics

This options allows you to switch off the preview of the graphics in your border. This can be useful if you are using very complex graphics in your tiles and are running Ornamatica on a slow machine.


Drag and Drop

Drag and drop is a term used for a technique for moving objects around in Windows. You click on the item you want to move and keep the mouse button pressed down as you move the cursor over to where you want the item to go which drags the item with you. You can then let go of the mouse button which "drops" the object at the point where you have moved the cursor to.

In Ornamatica you build your border by dragging the graphic you want from the palette on the Gallery Roll-Up dialog into a tile-holder on the border. As you do this your cursor will change to show you what will happen if you let go at that point (see Cursors).

If you have selected multiple tiles the graphic will be placed into all the tiles you have selected.

Selecting Multiple Tiles


Edit Galleries

select Edit Galleries from the File menu

You can add or remove graphics from the supplied galleries and even build your own galleries from scratch by using this option. When you run this option a large dialog will appear as illustrated below.

You can choose the gallery you want to work on by selecting its title from the drop down list box. The graphics in the gallery are previewed in a palette along the bottom of the dialog. You can scroll backwards and forwards through the palette of images available using the scroll bar at the bottom.

Adding Graphics

To add graphics to a gallery select the gallery required by choosing it from the drop down list box on the right. Then find the file you want to add using the file list boxes on the right. Select the file. If the Preview checkbox is on you will see a preview of the graphic you have chosen so that you can check it is the right one.

Then simply click the Add button and the graphic will be added to the gallery. You can add more than one image to a gallery in one go by pressing Shift when clicking on a file (adds files in a consecutive series) or by pressing Ctrl when clicking on a file (adds individual files to the set, the files need not be consecutive).

Ornamatica will import both Windows metafile (WMF) and Corel Draw (CDR) format graphics. You can choose which format is displayed in the file list box by choosing one or other from the List Files of Type list. You can also select All Files to view both .WMF and .CDR files.

Deleting Graphics

To delete graphics from a gallery select the graphics you want to remove by clicking on them. If you hold down the Shift key at the same time you can select a consecutive range of graphics. If you hold down the Ctrl key at the same time you can select a set of individual graphics. When you have selected the graphics you want to delete you then click on the Delete button to remove them permanently from the gallery.

Restoring Deleted Graphics

To add a deleted graphic back into a gallery you must Add it from the original file again. The only way to restore graphics deleted from the pre-built galleries supplied with Ornamatica is to reinstall that particular gallery from your master disks.

Creating New Galleries

You can create your own galleries from scratch by clicking the New button. A dialog will appear asking you to give the new gallery a title and then you can add and delete graphics for that gallery as with any other.


Error 101

Error 101: Unable to draw tile graphic

Ornamatica could not load an image to display it. You may be temporarily low on memory or system resources. Close any other programs you have running and try again. If that doesn't work trying restarting Windows to refresh your system resources.

Alternatively the image Ornamatica is attempting to refer to may be corrupt. If this is a disk based image you must reinstall or recreate it. If it is a clipboard image you need to put the image onto the clipboard again. If it is a gallery image you may need to reinstall or recreate that gallery or reload that image into the gallery.


Error 102

"Error 102: Unable to load selected image"

Ornamatica could not load an image to display it. You may be temporarily low on memory or system resources. Close any other programs you have running and try again. If that doesn't work trying restarting Windows to refresh your system resources.

Alternatively the image Ornamatica is attempting to refer to may be corrupt. If this is a disk based image you must reinstall or recreate it. If it is a clipboard image you need to put the image onto the clipboard again. If it is a gallery image you may need to reinstall or recreate that gallery or reload that image into the gallery.


Error 103

"Error 103: Unable to open gallery file for reading"

Ornamatica could not open one of the files used for the gallery you are using. This suggests the file is missing or corrupt. You will need to reinstall or rebuild the gallery.


Error 105

"Error 105: Unable to read gallery datafile filename to load dragged graphic"

Ornamatica could not read the data file for the gallery you are using. This suggests the file is missing or corrupt. You will need to reinstall or rebuild the gallery.


Error 106

"Error 106: Unable to read gallery datafile to load graphic for preview"

Ornamatica could not read the data file for the gallery you are using while trying to preview the tile graphic. This suggests the file is missing or corrupt. You will need to reinstall or rebuild the gallery.


Error 107

"Error 107: Unable to make backup copy. Disk space may be low. Do you wish to continue saving?"

This error indicates that Ornamatica ran into problems while trying to save your backup file to disk as you were saving your border. It is most likely that you are very low on available disk space. Try deleting some unwanted files and then try again by saying Yes to try to continue saving the backup. Select No to cancel the saving of the backup.


Error 108

Error 108: Unable to load CorelDRAW Import Filter

This error occurs when trying to open a CDR file when creating galleries or importing a graphic and means that the program which converts CDR files into a format Ornamatica can use is not available. It may be corrupt or missing.

You will need to reinstall Ornamatica to replace it.


Error 109

"Error 109: Unable to initialise CorelDRAW! Filter"

This error occurs when trying to open a CDR file when creating galleries or importing a graphic and means that the program which converts CDR files into a format Ornamatica can use cannot be started properly. It may be corrupt or missing.

You will need to reinstall Ornamatica to replace it.


Error 110

"Error 110: Unable to get clipboard data"

An error occurred while trying to obtain data from the clipboard to paste into Ornamatica. You may be temporarily very low on available memory or system resources.

Close any other programs you have running and try again. If that doesn't work trying restarting Windows to refresh your system resources.


Error 111

"Error 111: Unable to create WMF for clipboard"

An error occurred while trying to create an image to put on the clipboard. You may be temporarily very low on available memory or system resources.

Close any other programs you have running and try again. If that doesn't work trying restarting Windows to refresh your system resources.


Error 112

"Error 112: Unable to set clipboard data"

An error occurred while trying to create an image to put on the clipboard. You may be temporarily very low on available memory or system resources.

Close any other programs you have running and try again. If that doesn't work trying restarting Windows to refresh your system resources.


Error 113

"Error 113: Unable to allocate memory for clipboard metafile"

Ornamatica was unable to get enough memory to create an image to put on the clipboard. You may be temporarily very low on available memory.

Close any other programs you have running and try again. If that doesn't work trying restarting Windows to refresh your system resources.


Error 114

"Error 114: Unable to create WMF for clipboard"

An error occurred while trying to create an image to put on the clipboard. You may be temporarily very low on available memory or system resources.

Close any other programs you have running and try again. If that doesn't work trying restarting Windows to refresh your system resources.


Error 115

"Error 115: Unable to create WMF thumbnail image"

An error occurred while trying to create a thumbnail image for preview. You may be temporarily very low on available memory or system resources or your display driver may not support this operation.

Close any other programs you have running and try again. If that doesn't work trying restarting Windows to refresh your system resources. If that also fails try changing your display mode.


Error 116

"Error 116: Unable to open gallery data file"

Ornamatica could not open one of the files used for the gallery you are using. This suggests the file is missing or corrupt. You will need to reinstall or rebuild the gallery.


Error 117

"Error 117: The minimum size for a border is three tiles wide by three tiles high."

You have attempted to create a border which is larger than the minimum allowed in Ornamatica which is 3 tiles wide and/or 3 tiles wide.


Error 118

"Error 118: Warning! There are files missing from your gallery directory. You may be unable to read one or more galleries."

Each gallery you use or create in Ornamatica is stored on disk in two files for each gallery. The program checks these files each time it is run and if it cannot find all the files it was expecting for the galleries this message will be displayed. You can continue to use Ornamatica but you may find some galleries are missing. You must reinstall or recreate the missing galleries.


Error 121

"Error 121: Unable to load metafile"

An error occurred trying to read a metafile. File may be corrupt or may contain bitmap information.


Error 122

"Error 122: The maximum size for a border is 100 tiles wide by 100 tiles high"

You have attempted to create a border which is larger than the maximum allowed in Ornamatica which is 100 tiles wide and/or 100 tiles wide.


Error 123

Error 123: Unable to write metafile to gallery datafile, disk may be full

This error occurs when adding a metafile to a gallery and usually means that you have run out of disk space. Delete unwanted files to clear some space and try again.


Error Messages

If a problem occurs while using Ornamatica it will display the relevant error message as listed below.

"Error 101: Unable to draw tile graphic"

"Error 102: Unable to load selected image"

"Error 103: Unable to open gallery file for reading"

"Error 105: Unable to read gallery datafile (%s) to load dragged graphic"

"Error 106: Unable to read gallery datafile to load graphic for preview"

"Error 107: Unable to make backup copy. Disk space may be low. Do you wish to continue saving?"

"Error 108: Unable to load CorelDRAW Import Filter"

"Error 109: Unable to initialise CorelDRAW! Filter"

"Error 110: Unable to get clipboard data"

"Error 111: Unable to create WMF for clipboard"

"Error 112: Unable to set clipboard data"

"Error 113: Unable to allocate memory for clipboard metafile"

"Error 114: Unable to set metafile for clipboard"

"Error 115: Unable to create thumbnail image"

"Error 116: Unable to open gallery data file"

"Error 117: The minimum size for a border is three tiles wide by three tiles high."

"Error 118: Warning! There are files missing from your gallery directory. You may be unable to read one or more galleries."

"Error 121: Unable to load metafile"

"Error 122: The maximum size for a border is 100 tiles wide by 100 tiles high"

"Error 123: Unable to write metafile to gallery datafile, disk may be full"


Exit

Allows you to close the program. If you haven't saved your current border to disk you will be asked if you would like to do so before the program closes down.


Export

select Export from the File menu

This command allows you to save the border to disk as a standard Windows metafile (WMF) graphic. It can then be imported into any other application which allows you to use WMF graphics.

When you select this option a standard File Save dialog appears and you can use the drive and directory list boxes to find a location for your border. You then simply  type a name for your file in the Filename section of the dialog and click OK.


Filling Multiple Tiles

To build you border quickly Ornamatica offers various ways of placing graphics in more than one tile-holder at a time. You can select multiple tiles and then drag and drop a graphic into any one of the selected tile-holders. It will then be copied to all the other tile-holders you have selected.

Ornamatica also provides functions to automatically select the corners, sides and all the tile in the border.

Select Corners, Select Sides, Select Border

Selecting Multiple Tiles


Flip

select Flip from the Border/Tile menu

This function flips whatever you have selected top to bottom. If you have selected a tile or group of tiles the graphics in them are flipped. If you have selected the whole border the whole border will be flipped.

Thus

becomes

Note: The tile-holder frames are not flipped so the frame design which was on the top stays on the top of the flipped tile-holder.

Also note that the change made with these functions is a permanent state of the tile-holder and so whatever graphic you place in a flipped tile-holder will automatically be flipped. This allows you to try different graphics in the same design without having to keep flipping them.

Mirror


Flipping and Mirroring Tiles

Borders are often built from graphics or sides which mirror each other so Ornamatica makes it easy to do this.

To flip or mirror individual tiles select the tile or tiles you want to change and then select Flip or Mirror from the Tile menu or click on the flip or mirror button on the toolbar as appropriate.

Flip will turn the graphic over from left to right. Mirror will turn the graphic over top to bottom.

Note that only the graphic in the tile-holder is changed, the frames of the tile-holder are not affected.

Also note that the change made with these functions is a permanent state of the tile-holder and so whatever graphic you place in a flipped or mirrored tile-holder will automatically be flipped or mirrored. This allows you to try different graphics in the same design without having to keep flipping them.

Flip

Mirror

Flipping and Mirroring the Whole Border


Flipping and Mirroring the Whole Border

You can flip and mirror your entire border as well as individual tiles. Flip will turn the border over from top to bottom. Mirror will turn the border over from left to right.

Flip

Mirror

You can flip your entire border by selecting the border by clicking anywhere in the blank space inside the border and then clicking the flip button on the toolbar or selecting Flip from the Border menu.

You can mirror your entire border by selecting the border and then clicking the mirror button on the toolbar or selecting Mirror from the Border menu.


Formatting Borders Automatically

Many borders are designed by having opposite sides and corners mirror each other. Ornamatica can achieve this effect very simply as follows.

Fill all the tiles in your border with the graphics you want to use. Click on the top right hand corner and then, hold down the Shift key while clicking on the bottom right hand corner. The whole of the right hand side (including the corners) should now be selected. Click on the Mirror button and these tiles will be flipped over from left to right.

Now deselect the tiles by clicking any on the page outside the border. Then select the bottom left corner, hold and down Shift and select the bottom right corner.

Remember that you can apply a graphic or an effect to a number of tiles at the same time by selecting all the appropriate tiles beforehand.

Other borders are intended to have the design follow round the border in a clockwise direction as illustrated below.

Ornamatica can apply this effect automatically using the Auto Corners, Auto Sides and Auto Border options.


Frames

You can add frames in a variety of styles to the top, bottom, left or right sides of your tile-holders. You do so simply by selecting the frame style required from the drop down list for the appropriate side on the Graphics Properties Roll-Up dialog. If your tile-holders are immediately adjacent to each other you may not be able to see all the frame where the tile-holders meet.

The styles available are...

Frames are removed by selecting None from the drop down list of frame styles.


Frequently Asked Questions

How do I put text inside my border?

Ornamatica creates a standard WMF graphic image which can then be imported into a desktop publishing or graphics package for text to be added. This is usually done by importing the Ornamatica border as a picture and then drawing a frame over and inside the picture into which you can then type and format text.

How do I put text in a border using Microsoft Word?

Microsoft Word does not allow you to put frames over the top of imported graphics within the normal view of your page. Instead you must double-click on the picture of the border to launch the Draw utility which comes with later versions of Word.

Firstly use Insert Picture to place your border in your document. Then double-click on the border to launch the graphics editing sub-program. In versions 6 and 7 of MS Word this will bring up a toolbar of graphics controls at the bottom of your screen.

You can then insert a frame using the relevant button and type or paste your text into this frame just as you would in the main body of the program.

In earlier versions you must create the text you want in Word itself, select it all and copy it to the clipboard and then paste it onto your picture in Draw by selecting the text tool from Draw and Paste the text from the clipboard onto your border.

Finally close Draw to update the graphic in your Word document.

Sometimes when I put a graphic in a tile it appears upside down or the wrong way round. Is this a bug?

No, when you flip, mirror or rotate a tile or border in Ornamatica you are in fact altering the tile-holder so until you reset the change or start a new border the tile-holder will flip, mirror or rotate any graphics placed in it. This is intended to allow you to try different graphics in a border quickly and easily without having to set the graphic properties over and over again.

How do I make a border a particular size?

You can change the size of your border by constructing it from more or less tiles or by resizing it's overall size which resizes the tiles and spaces within it as required. If you resize from the corners of the border its original proportions will be retained.

See Also...

Resizing the Whole Border

Border Properties

What's the best way of designing my border at the right size for the space in my document?

If you know in advance what space you have available in your document and want to ensure that the border is designed from the beginning to look best at that size you can set the Custom Page option to that size. The page border can then act as a guideline for you to design within. But remember most graphics and DTP packages let you resize the border the important thing to get right is the proportion of the border so that it doesn't look stretched to fit.


Galleries

The graphics with which your borders can be built are provided in sets known as galleries. For ease of use these galleries are provided on screen in a Gallery Roll-Up dialog.

You can build your own galleries or add and delete images in the existing galleries via the Edit Galleries option.

You can have as many galleries installed as you like but the more you have the slower Ornamatica may become.

Gallery Disk Files

The galleries are stored on disk in the Gallery subdirectory of your Ornamatica installation. There are two files for every gallery a .bgd file and a .bgl file. They are named with a combination of numbers and letters which ensure that each gallery name is unique. The gallery each file refers to is stored in the orn.ini file in your Windows directory. This can be loaded into any text editor and printed out if required. Do not make any changes to this file as your program may not work properly if you do and you will need to reinstall it from the original disks.


Gallery Roll-Up

This is the roll-up dialog which allows access to the galleries of graphics from which your border can be made.

Using the Roll-Up Dialogs

You can select one of the galleries available by selecting its title from the drop down list box at the top of the dialog.

The graphics available in the gallery are displayed in a palette of twelve boxes below the title. Where there are more than twelve graphics in a gallery you can scroll backwards and forwards through the set using the scroll bar on the right of the palette.

With complex graphics the thumbnail in the palette may not be big enough to show the graphics properly so a larger preview of the selected graphic can be displayed in the box at the bottom of the dialog by clicking the Preview checkbox on as illustrated above.


Graphic Properties Roll-Up

This is a roll-up dialog which can be displayed by selecting the Show Graphics Properties option on the Display menu (a tick will be displayed beside it)

Using the Roll-Up dialogs

This dialog provides control over the tiles which make up your border and the graphics you use in them.


Help

This menu item provides access to this online Help. The Contents option will open the Contents page and the Index option will open the index and Search will open a Search dialog allowing you to type in the item you would like assistance with.

If you are not familiar with using the Windows Help system you can choose Using Help option though this will require that you have installed the appropriate help file which comes with Windows.

The bottom item is About which brings up a dialog detailing information about Ornamatica including the version number.


Hints and Tips

Uneven sides

If your border contains a large tile on one side but you want a series of small tiles to fill the gap opposite the large tile then why not copy that series of tiles to the clipboard and then paste them back into a large tile. The individual tiles will be converted to a single graphic which should fit the large tile perfectly.

Square Graphics

Ornamatica will be easiest to use with square graphics so you should bear this in mind when creating your own tile images in drawing packages.

Continuous Lines

If graphics which are meant to join up don't  you can try switching off scale rotate and/or keep aspect and the tiles may join up more readily. You can also use the Overlap override function as detailed in the Read This First section.

Continuous Lines in Corel Draw

When using Ornamatica with Corel Draw borders intended to be continuous lines can be welded using the Weld option in Corel Draw. You may need to increase the Overlap override and you may need to weld them in sections but the resulting border will be smaller and quicker to draw and print.

Simple Border

A simple but effective way to create an interesting border is to fill the border with a single graphic and then select alternate tiles and rotate them by 45 degrees with Scale Rotate on they will be reduced to fit and the result can be very effective even with the simplest graphic.

Corners and Lines

Don't forget you don't have to create complete borders. You can create corners and lines by simply leaving unwanted tile-holders empty. They will be ignored when your border is exported for use in another application.


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Import

This function allows you to import existing disk-based clipart or graphics you have designed yourself into your border.

You can place them in your border by selecting the tile(s) you want the graphic to go into and then selecting Import from the File menu or clicking on the Import button on the toolbar. A file browser will appear to allow you locate the file you want to use by choosing the appropriate drive and directory where it is located and then selecting it by clicking on the name in the file list box or typing the name into the filename box.

You can also preview your selected file by checking the Preview checkbox below the Preview frame. This allows you to check you have selected the right file before clicking OK to import it.

When you click the OK button the graphics will appear in the selected tile-holders immediately.

Ornamatica can import graphics in Windows metafile (.WMF) and Corel Draw (.CDR) formats and so is compatible with the most popular clipart products.

If you want to use external graphics regularly in Ornamatica you can incorporate them into existing galleries or create new galleries to contain them.

Editing Galleries.


Mirror

select Mirror from the Border or Tile menu

This function mirrors whatever you have selected left to right. If you have selected a tile or group of tiles the graphics in them are mirrored. If you have selected the whole border the whole border will be mirrored.

Thus

becomes

Note: The tile-holder frames are not mirrored. So the tile frame which was on the left remains on the left of the mirrored tile-holder.

Also note that the change made with these functions is a permanent state of the tile-holder and so whatever graphic you place in a mirrored tile-holder will automatically be mirrored. This allows you to try different graphics in the same design without having to keep mirroring them.

Flip


New

select New from the File menu	Ctrl+N

This command clears your current border if there is one resets the border to the default size, shape and position. The empty border will appear as a rectangle of grey boxes (tile-holders) unless you have turned off the Show Tile-holders command on the Display menu.

If you have not saved your border since your last changes to it then you will be prompted to save your current border before it is cleared.

All the properties of the border and tile-holder (including flip, mirror and rotate properties) are cleared by the New command.

Import

Open


Open

select Open from the File menu	Ctrl+O

This menu item allows you to open an existing Ornamatica border from disk.

A standard Open File dialog will appear which allows you to browse your system to find the file you want to open. Click on the file required or type the name into the Filename box. Ornamatica border files are stored as a filename with a .bdr extension. This is the default setting for the types of files which will be listed.

Opening Backup Files

When Keep Backups is checked on Preferences Ornamatica retains a backup copy of the original border when you save a new one under that name. The Open function can also open these backup files directly. Choose "Backups *.bak" from the List Files of Type drop down list and locate the backup file you want to open before clicking OK. Alternatively simply type the name of the backup border into the filename box.

Save

Save As


Ordering Information

You can order the extended version of Ornamatica from the following distributors

UK & Europe 	- Digital Workshop

USA, Mexico & Canada	 - JASC Inc

Australia & New Zealand	- Communique Communications

Other countries please use your closest distributor or use the UK form to order direct from Digital Workshop.


Paintshop Pro
Paintshop Pro v4

More than just a Paint Program!

All the tools to create and edit all kinds of images, from web pages and  photographs to screenshots and line drawings. Plus screen capture and graphics conversion in a fast and easy to use package.

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New Features in Version 4 include:

       Multiple selections

         Texture brushes

         Linear, Radial and Sunburst Gradient and Pattern Fills

         Choose any open image to use as a fill.

         Create seamless tiles.

          In-built special effects including Drop Shadow, Buttonize and Cutout

          Multiple line text with anti-aliasing and alignment

        Photo-Retouching brushes allow you to apply photo-retouching by hand.

Available for Windows 95 and NT4.00 only, on floppy disk or CD Rom.


Paste

select Paste from the Edit menu	Ctrl+V

This function allows you to paste the contents of the Windows clipboard into the currently selected tiles. This can be useful as a quick way of using graphics from other applications in your border as well as moving tiles around within your border.

If the clipboard contains multiple Ornamatica tiles they will be treated as a single graphic. This can be useful for putting several tiles into a single tile-holder to balance a large tile-holder on the opposite side.

Cut

Copy


Preferences

This option allows you to set various defaults for the operation of the program.

Page Size

You can select one of a range of standard page sizes by clicking on the appropriate radio button. You can also set a custom size for your page by clicking the Custom radio button and then typing the required dimensions into the edit boxes provided. The custom option is useful for creating a border at an exact size. Once the border is finished you can always reset the size to the page you will be using the border on to see how it will look in situ.

Page Orientation

You can also set the page to portrait or landscape orientation depending on how the final border will be used. You can change the orientation of the border itself using the Change Orientation option.

Units of Measurement

You can select which unit of measurement Ornamatica displays dimensions in by clicking the appropriate radio button. There is a choice between inches, millimetres and picas.

Keep Backups

This option allows you to specify whether Ornamatica will keep a backup copy of your border when you save a newer copy or another one with the same filename. You can open these backups directly in Ornamatica (for further details see Open).

Confirmation

You can also decide whether you want to confirm that you really wish to exit the program (Confirm Exit) and that you really wish to delete tiles (Confirm Delete Tiles).


Print

select Print from the File menu	Ctrl+P

This function allows you to print the current border to the current Windows printer. A print dialog will be displayed. Most of the options available are not relevant to Ornamatica but you can choose to print multiple copies of you like by typing the number into the Copies box provided.

If you have more than one printer setup you should check you are printing to the intended one as displayed at the top of the dialog.

Click OK to print your border.

You can change this printer to any others you have installed by clicking on the Setup button. This also allows you to set the paper orientation for your printer which should match the orientation of your paper in Ornamatica.

Print Setup


Print Setup

select Print Setup from the File menu

This option is a standard Windows function which allows you to change or set up the current printer to which any Print function will send your border.

You can choose any printer you have currently installed for use with Windows and set up various options for that printer including the paper orientation. You should set this to match the paper orientation in Ornamatica.

Print


Printing Your Border

Even though Ornamatica is intended to make border for use in other programs it can be useful to print the border directly from Ornamatica to test how a design looks for example. It can also be useful for producing frames which will not require anything else, to contain photographs or handwritten text for example.

To print your border simply select Print from the File menu or click on the Print button on the toolbar. The border you are currently working on will print to the selected Windows printer. If you want to use a different printer or set the current printer up differently you can select Print Setup from the File menu.

Print


Quick Start

Ornamatica provides a very simple way to build borders from graphics provided in a palette on screen .

When you first start the program an empty border template is displayed on the page as a rectangle of grey boxes called tile-holders.

The design of the border is created by filling the tile-holders with graphic elements called tiles. The tiles are supplied in sets, called galleries, and are displayed in the Gallery Roll-Up from which they can be selected and dragged into the tile-holders your border.

To help you build borders faster a tile can be simultaneously inserted into any number of tile-holders by selecting the tile-holders required before dragging the chosen tile graphic over to one of them.

Toolbar buttons are provided to select borders, sides or corners quickly

.

You can also select multiple tiles by pressing the Shift key at the same time as clicking on a tile-holder (to select a consecutive series of tiles) or by pressing Ctrl as you click to add individual tiles to a set.

You can select corners or sides or individual tiles and fill these with different graphics simply by selecting the tiles you want and dragging the appropriate graphic over to them.

Auto Border, Auto Corner and Auto Side functions are provided to rotate corner and side tiles so that the border design runs around the border in a clockwise direction.

You can even import existing clipart and build borders from those by using the Import option on the File menu. If you’ve got graphics you use regularly you can incorporate them in the program by adding them to existing galleries or building your own via the Edit Galleries option.

The graphics within tiles can be flipped, mirrored or rotated in one degree increments by setting these properties on the Graphic Properties roll-up dialog.

All the tiles can be resized using the resizing handles which appear around them when they are selected. If you have more than one tile selected changes to one will be copied to all those selected.

The whole border can also be moved around on the page by clicking anywhere in the middle of it and dragging it around. It can also be resized using its resizing handles and can be flipped or mirrored by selecting the Flip or Mirror options from the Border menu or by pressing the appropriate toolbar button when the border is selected.

Once you have created your border you can save it to disk in its own format or as a fully-scaleable WMF metafile graphic via the Export menu option. You can also copy the whole thing to the clipboard from where it can be pasted into your application.


Read This First

New Features

Alternate Selection

Many borders are created with an alternating pattern of tiles or with every other tile a mirror of its predecessor. You can now select every other tile in you border quickly and easily by simply holding down the Alt key when you click on the first tile in a series.

Constrained Resize

When resizing tiles/tile-holders using the editing handles in the corners you can hold down the Ctrl key to force the border and/or tile to be square or hold down the Shift key for completely freeform resizing. (see also Resizing Tiles, Resizing the Whole Border)

Right Button Menu

Clicking on the right mouse button will bring up a menu of commonly-used commands including flip, mirror, remove graphic, scale rotate etc.

Interrupt Redrawing

Ornamatica has been optimised so that your border will be drawn quickly and efficiently but on some machines using complicated graphics in complex borders may slow the redrawing of borders down. If this happens you can interrupt the redrawing of the border by pressing the Esc key and continue with your work immediately.

Templates

A series of border templates are provided to provide partially complete or skeleton borders for commonly used designs this includes borders for narrow graphics, large corners, outlined borders and so on. The borders are stored in the templates subdirectory of your Ornamatica installation.

Technical Notes

Compatibility between 16bit and 32bit versions

Borders created in the 16bit version of Ornamatica are incompatible with those created in the 32bit version and vice versa. However, the gallery files created with the 16bit version are compatible with the 32bit version but not vice versa.

Gallery Thumbnail Colours

The small representation of the tile graphics used in the Gallery Roll-Up are sixteen colour thumbnails of the actual images and the colours may therefore vary slightly from the actual graphic. To check the actual colour of a graphic you can switch on the Preview option via the checkbox at the bottom of the Gallery Roll-Up.

Once a tile has been placed in your gallery it will be displayed in the best manner your current graphics mode is capable of.

Whatever graphics mode you are running in the actual colours in the graphics will be retained in your border so when it is printed out it will print to the best capability of your printer.

Tiles Which Cannot Be Aligned

Some of the graphics supplied with Ornamatica are designed so that they cannot be aligned using the Alignment option as they are intended to match up with other tiles and so their position is set.

Gaps between tiles

Sometimes due to the limitations in converting the actual dimensions of a border to a screen representation spurious gaps may appear between tiles which are intended to have no space between them. This is particularly likely with the 32bit version.

When this happens change to a different zoom level, print the border out or try it in your intended package. If the gaps remain try unchecking the Keep Aspect option or, if possible, check the original graphics used to create the tile to ensure that they do not have slight discrepancies in them which are causing the problem these discrepancies can be minute and may require the graphics to be enlarged considerably for them to be visible.

If all else fails or if you cannot edit the relevant graphic we have provided an overlap override option which will force the tiles to be overlapped fractionally when exported. To set this option you should use a text editor to open the Ornamatica Initialisation file orn.ini which is in your Windows directory. Under the [Preferences] section, add a line which reads Overlap=n but replace the "n" with the amount of overlap required, 5 is a useful starting point. Save the file to the same place and name. You may need to restart Ornamatica for the change to take effect.

Accuracy of Continuous Line Borders on Imagesetters

Some borders formed from graphics intended to create continuous lines will not be accurate enough for printing on high resolution printers such as Linotron imagesetters. This will vary from graphic to graphic and in some cases may be corrected by using the overlap override option explained above.

Spurious Tile-holders in Exported Graphics

When loading an Ornamatica border into other software, particularly graphics packages, the tileholders may be apparent in some borders. These are in fact bounding boxes used to ensure that connecting graphics match up properly. They are effectively white background squares used to position the actual graphic properly and once imported into your graphics package can be deleted if preferred.

Rotated Graphics Cut Off

When Scale Rotate is off the graphic in a tile may be larger than the tile-holder. Because of the way the preview works the graphic will appear to be cut off at the edges of the tile-holder but in the exported border the graphic will be complete.

Limitations of Corel Draw Support

Import of CDR Files

Corel do not encourage the support of their graphics format in other products so the support provided in Ornamatica may have limitations. In particular some CDR files created with version 5 or version 6 of Corel Draw may not import into Ornamatica. Some early CDR files may also cause problems. If you experience particular difficulties please send us a copy of the file which caused the problems so we can pass it onto the developers of the import filter.

Clipboard Paste

Ornamatica borders pasted into Corel Draw from the Windows clipboard will be upside down.

Curve Quality

Some curves in Ornamatica metafiles will appear jagged or uneven when imported or pasted into Corel Draw. This effect will be reduced if you create the border larger than required and scale it down in Corel Draw.

Metafile Limitations

If an Ornamatica border metafile contains an outline pen Corel Draw tends to create a thick outline instead of the intended width. You can get round this by simply applying the appropriate outline manually once the border has been pasted or imported into Corel Draw.

Limitations of Metafile Import

Some WMF metafiles contain functions which are not supported by Ornamatica and may not be successfully imported into Ornamatica. You can try importing the image into another program and then copying it onto the Windows clipboard and pasting it into Ornamatica.


Redo

select Redo from the Edit menu

This function allows you to reinstate an action or change which you have undone using the Undo feature. You can redo as many things as you have undone in sequence.

Undo


Reference Guide

Simply select the area of the program you want details of.

Commands

Toolbar

Cursors


Remove Graphic

select Remove Graphic from the Tile menu	Delete

This menu item removes the graphic from the tile-holder.

Note that it does not change the rotation, flip or mirror properties or any frame properties which must be reset in the same way that they were set.

Removing Graphics from Tiles


Removing Graphics from Tiles

You can remove graphics from the tile-holders by selecting the necessary tile or tiles and then or by using Remove Graphic from the Tile menu or by pressing the Delete key. Remove Graphic

If you simply want to replace a graphic in a tile you can drag and drop the alternative graphic into the tile as though it was empty. The existing graphic will be replaced automatically by the new one.

You can also use the Cut command which will also place a copy on the clipboard. Cut

If you have only just placed the graphic you could use the Undo command to reverse the action. Undo


Replacing Graphics in Tiles

If you want to replace one graphic in a tile with another you should select the tile or tiles you want to change. Then drag and drop the alternative graphic into one of the tiles as though it was empty. The existing graphic will be replaced automatically by the new one.

If you want to replace an existing graphic with an external clipart image select the tile(s) required and then select Import from the File menu and find the graphic you want to use. When you click on OK the graphic will be placed in the tile(s) you have selected.

Removing Graphics from Tiles


Resizing Tiles

Whenever you select tile and tile-holders they are surrounded by a bold outline and eight small black boxes appear in the corners and the sides. These boxes are editing handles and you can resize the tile by clicking on one and dragging it around to resize the border in the manner required.

You can resize tiles whether they have graphics in or not. If they contain graphics the graphic will be resized to fit in the new tile-holder in the same way it did before the resizing.

The editing handles at the sides will resize the tile left and right. The editing handles on the top and bottom will resize the tile up and down. The editing handles on the corners will resize both vertically and horizontally retaining the original proportions of the tile. If you hold down the Shift key the original proportions will not be retained and you can resize vertically and horizontally however you like. If you hold down the Ctrl key the resizing will be constrained to a square.

You can also set the size of the tiles very precisely by editing the tile size on the Graphic Properties Roll-Up dialog by typing the measurement required in the appropriate edit box or by using the spin buttons to increase or decrease the value as required.

Resizing Multiple Tiles

You can resize multiple tiles by selecting all the tiles you want to change. You then resize one of the selected tiles to the required size and all the others are automatically resized to the same size, even if they were different sizes to start with. This can be very useful for making the tiles of your border a consistent size.

All the tiles in your border will be automatically resized when you resize the whole border.

Resizing the Whole Border


Resizing the Whole Border

You can resize the border in two ways.

The quickest and easiest way is to simply select the whole border by clicking on the blank space inside the border. A black rectangle will appear around the border and eight editing handles will appear at the corners and sides as illustrated below.

Click on any of the editing handles and drag the cursor around to resize the border and all the tiles and spaces within it as you wish.

The editing handles at the sides will resize the border left and right. The editing handles on the top and bottom will resize the border up and down. The editing handles on the corners will resize both vertically and horizontally retaining the original proportions of the border. If you hold down the Shift key the original proportions will not be retained and you can resize vertically and horizontally however you like. If you hold down the Ctrl key the resizing will be constrained to a square.

The more accurate way to resize the border is to edit the dimensions of the border on the Border Properties dialog. You can edit the vertical and horizontal size of the border by typing the measurement required in the appropriate edit box or by using the spin buttons to increase or decrease the value as required. Once you have set the size required press the Change button to apply your changes.


Rotating Graphics in Tiles

You can rotate the graphics within tile-holders in one degree increments. Simply select the tile or tiles you want to change and then type the degree of rotation in the edit box provided on the Graphics Properties Roll-Up or use the spin buttons alongside it to increase or decrease the rotation.

The result is previewed immediately on screen and will affect all the selected tiles.

Scale Rotate

You can either scale the graphic to fill the tile-holder when it is rotated or you can force it to keep its original size. This latter is important if you want all your graphics the same size but want some to be rotated. With Scale Rotate off the tile graphic remains at the same size. This may cause parts of the tile to be drawn outside the tile-holder although . and therefore should not be used with tile-holder frames. Note that in Ornamatica the rotated graphic will appear to be cut off at the edge of the tile-holder, this is simply a function of the way the graphics are represented on screen and in the finished border the complete graphic will be still be present.

Basic Techniques


Save

select Save from the File menu	Ctrl+S

This menu item allows you to save your border to disk in a form that can be subsequently loaded and edited again in Ornamatica.

When you choose this item the current border will be saved to disc without further ado. If you have not yet saved the file to disk you will be asked to give it a filename. In this case a standard File Save dialog will appear allowing you to choose a location for your border using the drive and directory list boxes. You can give it a filename by typing it in the filename box provided.

Keeping Backups

If you have Keep Backups option active (see Preferences) the program will automatically store a copy of your previous version of this file in case you change your mind and want to go back to the one before this one.

Opening Backups Again

Save As


Save As

select Save As from the File menu

This menu item allows you to save your border to disk in a form that can be subsequently loaded and edited again in Ornamatica and under a different name to its current one.

A standard File Save dialog will appear allowing you to choose a location for your border using the drive and directory list boxes. You can give it a filename by typing it in the filename box provided.

Save


Saving Your Border to be Used Later

Once you have designed your border there are two ways you can store it on disk for use at a later time. Which you use depends on whether you want to be able to edit the border again at a later time or simply use it in another program.

Saving the Ornamatica Border

You can save your border to disk as an Ornamatica border by using the Save option from the File menu. Doing this will keep your border in a form that can be edited at a later date in Ornamatica. However, it won't be compatible with any other programs and if you want to use it in a DTP or graphics program you will need to open it in Ornamatica and either copy it across the clipboard or export it as a WMF graphic. (Using Your Border in Other Programs.)

You will probably want to keep most of your borders on disk in an editable form but this is likely to be particularly useful where the border is not standard and some of the tiles have been resized or it is an unusual size. In these cases it will be useful not merely to be able to edit that particularly border again but to use it as a template for another similar border.

Saving the Border as Clipart

You can also save your border to disk as a standard Windows Metafile (WMF) clip art image which you can then use at any later date in any program which allows you to import WMF format graphics. This includes all Windows-based DTP, word processing and graphics packages of note and many other programs besides.

You save the border to disk as clipart by using the Export option from the File menu.


Select

choose Select from the Edit menu

This provides access to the three ways to automatically select portions of your border...

Select Corners

Select Sides

Select Border


Select Border

choose Select..Border from the Edit menu

Automatically selects all the tiles in the border. Any graphic you load into one will be copied to all the others. Any other change of properties, resize, flip, add frame etc will also be copied to all tiles.

Select Corners

Select Sides


Select Corners

choose Select..Corners from the Edit menu

Automatically selects all the tiles in the corners of the border. Any graphic you load into one will be copied to all the others. Any other change of properties, resize, flip, add frame etc will also be copied to all the corners. This can be very useful for creating borders with large cornerpieces.

Select Border

Select Sides


Select Sides

choose Select..Sides from the Edit menu

Automatically selects all the tiles in the sides of the border. Any graphic you load into one will be copied to all the others. Any other change of properties, resize, flip, add frame etc will also be copied to all tiles.

Select Corners

Select Border


Selecting Multiple Tiles

You can select a series of several consecutive tiles by clicking on the first in the series and then holding down the Shift key while you click on the last in the series.

You can select a set of separate tiles by holding down the Ctrl key when you click on the tile you want to add to the set.

Many borders are created with an alternating pattern of tiles or with every other tile a mirror of its predecessor. You can now select every other tile in you border quickly and easily by simply holding down the Alt key when you click on the first tile in a series.

You can quickly select the whole border, all the corners or all the sides using the toolbar buttons provided or by using the Select option from the Edit menu.


Show Roll-Ups

The Display menu provides several options for controlling which of the roll-up dialogs are on view.

You can click on the individual commands to Show Border Properties, Show Galleries, Show Graphics Properties. When a tick appears alongside the relevant roll-up dialog will be displayed on screen. Please note that this option actually opens and closes the dialogs. If you merely want to roll them up and down you should use the arrow in the top right of the dialog's menu bar.

Border Properties Roll-Up

Gallery Roll-Up

Graphic Properties Roll-Up

If you want to quickly show or hide all the roll-ups you can select Show All Roll-Ups or Close All Roll-Ups respectively.

If you want to keep open the roll-up dialogs on display but want to tidy the screen and roll the dialogs up to take up less space the Arrange Roll-Ups option will roll-up all the dialogs and arrange them neatly in the the top right of your screen.


Show Tileholders

select Show Tileholders from the Display menu	Space

This option allows you to switch off the pale grey outlines of the tile-holders to let you see your border exactly as it will appear when you print it out or use it in another application.

You can switch this option on and off quickly by pressing the Spacebar.


Status Bar

The status bar appears at the bottom of the screen and provides automatic feedback on what you are doing. This is a useful way to get a quick reminder or hint of what a particular option or button does.

Showing and Hiding the Status Bar

To maximise your working space you can hide the status bar and then show it again when required using the Status Bar option on the Display menu. When this option has a tick by it the toolbar will be displayed.


Technical Specifications

Ornamatica has been optimised to enable it to run on almost any computer capable of running Windows though the speed of the program will depend entirely on the complexity of the border you are making and the graphics you are using in it. The minimum system requirements are a 386 PC-compatible with 8Mb Ram, VGA graphics and a mouse. Running the program on a 486 will make it more comfortable to use with more complex graphics and if you have a Pentium with 16Mb of Ram you can run Ornamatica in high colour. We also provide a 32-bit version designed for Windows 95 which is obviously faster still.

Maximum and Minimum

An Ornamatica border can have a minimum of 3 tiles and a maximum of 100 tiles in each side.

The tiles can be as small as 2mm square or up to 100mm wide and 100mm high.

Borders can be up to 1000mm wide and 1000mm high.


Technical Support

If you require technical assistance with Ornamatica, call Digital Workshop Technical Support on 01295 273476. Alternatively you can fax (01295 254590) or post details of your problem to us.

If you are a member of Compuserve you can GO WORKSHOP (Section 16 of WINAPG) where you will find other users to help you as well as Digital Workshop staff. You can mail us directly on [74431,1160].

You can also contact us via the internet on techsupport@digitalworkshop.co.uk or take a look at our web site www.digitalworkshop.co.uk

If you are a member of CiX you can join theworkshop where there is a topic for Illuminatus or you can mail theworkshop with you question.

Save Yourself a Phone Call

To help us to maintain our technical support service free of charge please try to solve your own problems before you call. Things you could try first are...

Read the relevant section in the appropriate manual and look for any related subject in the index.

Do the same with the online help

Read the Frequently Asked Questions sections of both the manual and the Help file.

Try to repeat your problem. Work through it again checking what you are doing and that you are not missing any steps out or moving on too quickly to notice an error message.

If possible try a similar thing in another Windows package. If you're having trouble printing try printing something from Paintbrush (for bitmap graphics) or Write (for text and/or metafile graphics).

Check that you are not running out of disk space (File Manager displays the free disk space in the status bar at the bottom) or system resources (choose Help|About in Program Manager to find out what your resources are). Try freeing some disk space by deleting unwanted files or restart Windows to refresh your system resources.

When You Call

If you do need to call we will be able to help you much more if you can be at your computer with Windows and Ornamatica running and that you have the following information to hand

The exact wording of any error message you received.

What version of our software you are running (you can find this on the About box viewed by choosing Help|About).

The version of Windows you are using.

The type of processor (386, 486, Pentium), the amount of RAM (memory) and disk space your computer has.

Graphics card type and the mode you are running in.

Make of  sound card you are using (if relevant).When you call or write to technical support, please have as much information as possible available including the make and type of your computer, the amount of memory installed and the size of hard disk.

If it is possible to have access to your computer when phoning it is usually helpful to have the program running on the system when you call.


Toolbar

This is the Ornamatica toolbar which provides quick onscreen access to some of the functions used most often. For details of the function of any of the buttons click on the appropriate button.

Showing and Hiding the Toolbar

To maximise your working space you can hide the toolbar and then show it again when required using the Toolbar option on the Display menu. When this option has a tick by it the toolbar will be displayed.


UK Ordering Information
UK & Europe Orders

Select Print Topic from the File menu to print this order form.

Digital Workshop Order Form

Yes. Please rush me the latest extended version of Ornamatica.

Name:................................................................................................................

Organisation:.....................................................................................................

Address:............................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

Country....................................................PostCode:.........................................

Telephone................................................Fax....................................................

Ornamatica	........ copies 	@ £22.95 = ...........................

Cabrio	........ copies 	@ £22.95 = ...........................

Illuminatus	........ copies 	@ £99.95 = ...........................

PaintShop Pro v4 3.5HD	........ copies 	@ £49.95 = ...........................

PaintShop Pro v4 CD Rom	........ copies 	@ £49.95 = ...........................

postage	@  £5  	  	   =............................

Vat @ 17.5% (UK and EC residents only)	   =............................

Total	   =............................

__ Please charge my credit card: Access/Visa/Mastercard/American Express

Card No:.......................................................................... Expiry Date.................

Signed..................................................................................................................

__I enclose a sterling cheque/postal order/Eurocheque payable to "Digital Workshop"

Sales Hotline: 	01295 258335 (or outside UK: +44 1295 258335)

Sales Fax: 	01295 254590 (or outside UK: +44 1295 254590)

Email: sales@digitalworkshop.co.uk, Compuserve: [74431,1160], Cix: theworkshop

Postal Address:

Digital Workshop

19 Parsons Street

Banbury

Oxon

OX16 8LY

UK


US Ordering Information
US Orders

Select Print Topic from the File menu to print this order form.

JASC, Inc (USA) Order Form

You can order from JASC, Inc. by payment with check or credit card (Mastercard and Visa).  The numbers for ordering are 1-800-622-2793 or Voice (612) 930-9800 or FAX (612) 930-9172

Yes. Please rush me the latest extended version of Ornamatica.

Name

Company

Street

Street

City

State	Zip

Country	Telephone

Credit Card Type	Expiration Date

Credit Card Number

Signature

Product	Disk Size	Cost	# of Copies:	Product Total

Ornamatica	3.5	$29.00* 	_________	$__________

Professional Capture Systems	3.5	$39.00 	_________	$__________

JASC Media Center	3.5	$39.00 	_________	$__________

Paint Shop Pro v4	3.5	$69.00 	_________	$__________

Paint Shop Pro v4	CD ROM	$69.00 	_________	$__________

PostScript ® Renderer	3.5	$49.00 	_________	$__________

Illuminatus	Dual	$149.00 	_________	$__________

Minnesota residents add 6.5% sales tax	$__________

Shipping/Handling - US or Canada	$5.00	$__________

Shipping/Handling - Outside of US or Canada 	$16.00	$__________

Total in US Funds drawn on a US Bank	$__________

Make checks payable to	:	JASC, Inc.

  Mail to:	JASC, Inc.

PO Box 44997

Eden Prairie MN 55344 USA

* Special price of $29.00 for our shareware users, this represents a $10.00 savings of the SRP of $39.00


Undo

select Undo from the Edit menu

This option allows you to undo whatever you did last. You can undo up to 10 preceding actions in sequence. If you change your mind about undoing something you can reinstate the action by using Redo.

Redo


Using External Graphics

Ornamatica allows you to use your existing clipart or graphics you have designed yourself including company or project logos.

You can place them in your border by selecting the tile(s) you want the graphic to go into and then selecting Import from the File menu or clicking on the Import button on the toolbar. Import

Ornamatica can read graphics in Windows metafile (.WMF) and Corel Draw (.CDR) formats and so is compatible with the most popular clipart products.


Using Your Border in Other Programs

Ornamatica is primarily intended to let you create borders which you will then use in a separate desktop publishing or graphics package. There are two ways to use your finished border in another program you can either use the clipboard or export the border as a graphic.

Clipboard

You can simply copy the border to the clipboard by selecting the border and using the Copy command or toolbar button to place it on the clipboard. Then run or return to your other application, go to the place where you want to use your border and select the Paste option from that program's Edit menu. The other program will then allow you to paste your Ornamatica border into place.

The advantage of this method is that it is quick and easy; the disadvantage is that you need to run Ornamatica to open or create the border in the first place.

Export

Alternatively you can export your border as a standard Windows metafile graphic. This means it will be saved separately on disk and can be imported into any program which supports WMF graphics direct from the disk just like any other graphic image, without running Ornamatica again.

To do this choose the Export option from the File menu. Export

How do I put text inside my border?


Using the Roll-Up dialogs

Ornamatica provides the tile graphics and the most commonly used properties and settings on special dialogs called roll-up dialogs. Unlike normal dialogs these can stay open all the time and provide a kind of toolbox for the various features on them.

To allow them to remain readily available but not clutter up your screen too much you can roll the dialog up when not in use and roll it down again when required. This is similar to minimizing and maximizing your application window but when you roll-up or minimize a roll-up dialog it contracts to leave only the title bar on view as illustrated below.

You roll up and roll down your dialog by clicking on the arrow button in the top right corner.

You can close any individual dialog by double-clicking on the close box in the top left corner or by deselecting the appropriate action from the View menu. You can also close all the roll-up dialogs at once by selecting the Close All option from the View menu.

If you click once on the close box in the top left corner you will get a drop down menu allowing you to chose to close this dialog, all the dialogs or to Arrange All which will arrange the dialogs neatly one above the other in the top right corner of your screen.

You can move the rolled-up and rolled-down dialogs anywhere you like on your screen by clicking on the dialog or the title bar and dragging the dialog to the new location.

There are three roll-up dialogs in Ornamatica...

Gallery Roll-Up

Graphics Properties Roll-Up

Border Properties Roll-Up


Welcome Screen

The Welcome Screen in Ornamatica allows you to go straight to where you want to start work. You can click on the buttons provided to choose how the program will start.

  will open a File Open dialog to let you open an existing border or to load a sample or template file.

  will open a New and entirely blank border.

  (at the bottom of the dialog) will open the last file you used which is given in the box alongside.

If you change your mind about running Ornamatica at this time simply press the Cancel button and the program will close again.


Zoom

select Zoom from the Display menu

This option provides various ways of zooming into border to varying degrees.

Firstly the menu provides preset magnification zooms...

50% 	- half actual size

100% 	- actual size

200% 	- double actual size

It then also includes several special zoom modes...

Zoom to Selected	- zooms in on the tiles you currently have selected so they fill the viewing area.

Zoom to Page	- zooms in or out so that the whole page fills the viewing area.

Zoom to Border-	- zooms in or out until the whole border fills the viewing area.

Zoom Variable	- allows you to select an area to fill the viewing area.

The last three of these are reproduced on the toolbar for quick access.

When you choose one of the zoom modes available from the toolbar the relevant button will stay depressed to show you what preview mode you are currently in.

Zoom to Page

Zoom to Border

Zoom Variable


Zoom Variable

select Zoom...Variable from the Display menu

This function is allows you to highlight an area which the program will zoom in on and display to fill the viewing area. When you select this option the cursor will change to a magnifying glass and you can then click and drag a red dotted rectangle around the area you wish to zoom in on.

If you click without dragging you will get maximum zoom on the area around where you clicked.

Zoom

Zoom to Border

Zoom Variable


Zoom to Border

select Zoom...Border from the Display menu

This function is one of the preset preview modes and zooms the view of the border so that the whole border is seen and fills the Window.

Zoom

Zoom to Page

Zoom Variable


Zoom to Page

select Zoom...Page from the Display menu

This function is one of the preset preview modes and zooms the viewing window so that the whole page is seen and fills the Window irrespective of the size of your border.

Zoom

Zoom to Border

Zoom Variable