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- Zoner Draw 3 - Basic Information
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- Dear customer,
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- You have just received the new version of the Zoner Draw 3 vector
- graphics editor. Thank you for having chosen Zoner Draw 3 for your
- graphics work.
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- Note that this version DOES NOT support the following formats:
- * GIF
- * LZW-compressed TIFF
- * CDR
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- Zoner Draw 4 DOES, however, support these formats, and we offer a special
- upgrade price for Zoner Draw 4 to users of Zoner Draw 3.
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- See our website (http://www.zoner.com) for information on upgrades and
- for the latest patches to Zoner Draw 3.
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- The Most Important New Features in Zoner Draw 3
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- Object transparency
- - you can now assign a transparency style to any object.
- Transparency is defined using the Fill roll-up window, which now
- has two tabs; these can be used to switch between work with fills
- and work with transparency. Transparent GIF files now also keep
- their transparent color when you place them in a document.
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- Blends between objects
- - you can create a blend between any two objects. To create a
- blend, select two independent objects and select the Create Blend
- option from the Objects menu. To edit the blend color, number of
- steps, and the curve which defines the blend, use the Shape tool
- after you've made the blend.
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- Support for bitmap filters
- - Zoner Draw 3 is now able to apply bitmap filters from Adobe
- Photoshop. Some filters must be bought, but many can be obtained
- as freeware, over the Web. When you select a bitmap, a list of
- available filters will be visible in the Tools menu (these filters
- must first be installed in Zoner Draw via the Tools | Setup
- Plug-ins... dialog). Note: if other objects are selected together
- with the bitmap, the filter will be applied only to the area
- where the bitmap and the other object(s) interlap.
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- Anti-aliasing
- - You can enable anti-aliasing (smoothing of edges) for objects
- on-screen, using the View | Redraw Quality menu item.
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- View Manager
- - A new roll-up window, View Manager, has been added. Using the View
- Manager, you can quickly change the zoom level, pan an image, and
- save up to 10 view settings for quick access later, using the
- Alt+0 to Alt+9 keys.
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- SGC export
- - Zoner Draw 3 can export documents into the SGC format, a
- vector format implemented directly inside the Microsoft Internet
- Explorer 4.0 browser. Zoner Draw 2 already had this
- feature, but in Zoner Draw 3, linear and circular fills can
- be exported, and 7 new SGC filters have been added.
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- OLE server
- - Zoner Draw 3 is now a fully-featured OLE server (you can
- edit a Zoner Draw document directly from inside documents in
- other programs).
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- Bitmap editing
- - Zoner Draw 3 now enables free rotation of bitmaps within a
- document. Also, any bitmap file which contains transparency
- information (transparent GIF) will stay transparent after you
- insert it in a Zoner Draw 3 document.
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- Images
- - together with Zoner Draw 3, you will receive (CD version)
- a set of Zoner-produced images in the ZMF and WMF formats, all
- created in Zoner Draw 3 itself. This image library is constantly
- growing.
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- Other New Features in Zoner Draw 3
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- - new look for the program environment
- - the rulers show the position of selected objects during transformations
- - a new grid display style is available (see grid definition dialog)
- - IntelliMouse support
- - progress indicator in the status bar when exporting or printing
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- - Document information (File | Document Info...)
- - MAPI support (File | Send...)
- - support for scanning from directly inside the Zoner Draw 3 package
- - function for conversion to bitmap (Tools | Rasterize...)
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- - floating toolbar for color palette
- - alternate color selection controls (like in, for example, CorelDRAW!):
- left-click = fill; right-click = pen - see the View | Environment
- settings... dialog
- - drag&drop can be used between the color palette and an object (also
- within a palette, i.e. for rearranging colors within a palette)
- - the color palette and status bar can be hidden (see the View menu)
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- - tool tips in the color palette - information on RGB elements
- - tool tips on the color-display button - information on RGB elements
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- - CMYK separations can be previewed directly on-screen
- (View | Separations...)
- - WMF images are separated
- - tables are separated
- - separation printouts now also include plate number
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- - you can set the line spacing for artistic text (see the text styles
- dialog)
- - paragraph text is placed in the Clipboard as RTF (for the moment only
- for export, i.e. the RTF format is not pasted into paragraph text)
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- - the active page and zoom level are saved together with documents
- - layers are preserved when using the Paste from File function
- - objects are automatically grouped after import
- - you can choose whether or not layers will be preserved during work
- with the Clipboard (see the View | Environment settings... dialog)
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- - you can choose partial or full redrawing of objects as they are moved
- (see View | Environment settings...)
- - if the Ctrl key is held during movement, a copy will be made instead
- of moving the original
- - the dialog for export to SGC saves the last settings you choose
- - keyboard shortcuts - see manual
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- New Features in Zoner Media Explorer 3.0 and Zoner Viewer 3.0
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- - ActiveMovie support - if you have installed Microsoft Internet
- Explorer or ActiveMovie, then ZME can display and play the formats
- for this interface (MPG, MOV, AU, etc.)
- - support for Adobe Photoshop bitmap filters in Zoner Viewer
- - bitmaps can be rotated and horizontally/vertically mirrored
- - file list windows can now also display folders and non-supported
- files.
- - the MAPI standard is supported (File | Send...)
- - sounds and animations can be displayed/played directly inside
- their thumbnails
- - scanner support
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- Looking forward to your suggestions, and wishing you a good time and
- pleasant work with Zoner Draw 3,
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-
- Zoner Draw development team
- e-mail:draw@zoner.com
- http://www.zoner.com