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- Fractal Design Expression(tm) 1.0 - Windows Demo Version -- Read Me File
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- WELCOME
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- Welcome to Fractal Design Expression - The Revolutionary Natural-Media(TM)
- Vector Drawing Tool. Please be sure to read this document for important
- information about this version that may not be included in the printed
- documentation.
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- This demo version has the following features disabled :
- -Save
- -Save As
- -Save As Bitmap
- -Save As Movie
- -Copy/Paste to other Applications
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- To order your fully working version, please contact Fractal Design Sales at 1-800-846-0111
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- REGISTRATION
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- We strongly encourage you to register your copy of Expression. The
- benefits of registration include:
- * Free technical support via phone, email, online services or the World
- Wide Web.
- * Advance information on future releases.
- * Special offers available to Fractal Design customers only
- * Notification of updates and patches.
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- DOCUMENTATION ERRATA
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- After the documentation was sent to print several additions were made to
- the application.
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- If the cursor is over a stroke and you click on the right mouse button,
- a context sensitive menu appears which includes option to edit the stroke
- definition or reverse its path.
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- Two new menu items were added to the Stroke menu.
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- Reset Stroke Shear sets the shear angle to any selected stroke or strokes
- back to 0 degrees.
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- Reverse Ribbon Folds works on any selected stroke or strokes drawn in Ribbon
- mode. If a ribbon stroke overlaps itself, selecting the Reverse Ribbon Folds
- command will change the drawing order of how the stroke overlaps.
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- MANAGING YOUR STROKES
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- Expression lets you load hundreds of strokes into your Stroke Warehouse.
- Depending on the number and complexity of those strokes, and your system
- configuration, this may result in slower performance within the application.
- To maintain high-levels of performance, you may want to limit the number
- and complexity of strokes that are loaded at one time.
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- MANAGING PATTERNS
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- Expression uses a system pattern file to automatically load various patterns
- into the pattern list in the Paint Style dialog and Hatching... dialog. To
- conserve RAM not all patterns included with Expression are loaded into the
- pattern file. There are several Expression files in the PATTERNS folder that
- contain dozens of patterns. To use any of the patterns in these files, simply
- open them and Expression will automatically add them into your pattern list.
- When you close the pattern file they will be removed from the pattern list, but
- any documents you've created with those patterns will continue to store them.
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- PRINTING
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- There may be some cases where Expression will have difficulty printing a file
- to a PostScript printer. This might occur if you use transparent strokes or
- if you've created a very complex file. If this occurs you may want to choose
- the "Rasterize Before Printing" checkbox in the Print dialog and select the
- appropriate dpi setting for your printer.
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- CORELDRAW EXPORT
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- This version of Expression does not support CMX (Corel exchange format)export.
- To move an Expression file to CorelDraw, first save it as an Adobe Illustrator
- file, which can be imported by CorelDraw. CMX support will be available in an
- upcoming version. This will be made available as an online updater as soon as
- it becomes available. Be sure to check our website at www.fractal.com or
- our AOL forum (keyword: FRACTAL) You can also order updated versions directly
- from Fractal sales at 1-800-846-0111.
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- Expression is designed specifically to run on Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 and
- Windows NT 4.0. You can install Expression on a Windows 3.1 based PC, but
- performance may suffer.
- Expression for Windows requires a 486, Pentium or Pentium Pro PC with a minimum
- of 16MB of RAM, and a CD-ROM player.
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- Many of the answers to your questions, along with tips and tricks may
- already be posted on our web site. Be sure to check out the technical support
- pages on the Fractal Design web site.
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- Internet: http://www.fractal.com/support/tech
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- Copyright (c) 1996 Fractal Design Corporation, all rights reserved.
- Fractal Design Expression and Natural-Media are trademarks of Fractal Design
- Corporation which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Creature House
- and Skeletal Strokes are trademarks of Creature House Ltd. Fractal Design
- Expression was developed by Creature House Ltd. and Fractal Design Corp.
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