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- Arts & Letters EXPRESS 6.0
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- List of Features
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- Color Filters feature allows you to adjust the colours of all
- objects in a file - or just a few - without breaking apart the
- objects: convert to grayscale, replace hue, add/remove(mix) paint
- are just a few of the controls.
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- Extrude and Warp/Perspective allow you to simulate two-point
- perspective and three-dimensional effects automatically.
- Hole-cutting allows backgrounds to show through objects. Autotrace
- automatically transforms bitmaps (scanned images) into editable
- objects.
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- Additional advanced features include masking and polymorphic
- tweening, A dynamically updated hint line displays options and
- identifies tools and commands. An on-line glossary and keyword
- search facility provide instant answers to any questions.
- Sophisticated editing tools, construction toolbox for precise
- drawing, line-to-curve conversion, and 4-colour separations make
- Arts & Letters EXPRESS the equal of any graphic arts task.
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- EXPRESS Has the Features You Need!
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- Productivity
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- Preview of files through Thumbnail images and brief descriptions
- Drag/Drop file management through Windows
- Eyedropper tool for saving and recalling attributes
- Intuitive object selection
- True multi-tasking of screen redraw
- Accel-O-Draw speeds screen redraw
- Secondary mouse button functions speed editing sessions
- Hint Line provides continuous help
- Data-driven charting tools
- Multiple view levels - stepless zoom ratio of 80:1
- Edit in full color or wire-frame
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- Custom attributes and styles
- Image capture
- Autotrace bitmaps
- File management (deleting files)
- Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) supported
- Import (EPS,CDR,CGM,DRW,DXF,PJC,TJF,TXT,WMF)
- Export (EPS, CGM,TJF,SCD,WMF,WPG)
- PostScript file conversion utility (import)
- Floating Tool Bar
- Push-pin menus to create custoomised layouts
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- Clip Art and Drawing Tools
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- Clip-Art Manager with Thumbnail images
- Find feature that searches for specific images by keyword
- Drag & Drop clip art (OLE supported)
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- Over 15,000 award-winniing art forms and clip-art images
- Line and Bezier curve drawing tools
- Construction toolbox for precision drawing
- Advanced curve editing tools
- Convert symbols to freeform
- Snap to lines and curves
- Line-to-curve conversion
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- Typographic Controls
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- Interactive tracking, leading, and styles control
- Edit attributes of specific letters within text block
- Typeface preview that can be customized
- Text along a path
- Over 1,000 scalable fonts - 4 to 3,200 points
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- Arts & Letters Font Manager
- TrueType and PostScript fonts supported
- Edit TrueType and PostScript Type 1 outlines
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- Colour and Object Management
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- Colour mixing
- Colour and brightness/contrast correction
- Instant adjustment of stacking order for all objects in a file
- Object Browser allows naming, locking, and hiding of objects
- Proportional sizing from the centre of an object
- 24-bit colour support
- Spot and 4-colour separations
- Named colour, line and fill styles
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- Vector and raster fills
- Gradient fills
- Bitmap image enhancement
- Selection within a grouped object
- Precision alignment of objects
- Size/Rotate objects
- Slant objects
- Activity Manager (with text & colour effects)
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- Special Effects
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- Extrude feature to create three-dimensional effects
- Warp/Perspective
- Text along a path
- Snap to points or grid
- Object distribution
- Attribute blending
- Shape interpolation
- Pictographs (symbol charts)
- Calligraphic pens
- Image colour reduction/cropping
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- Hole cutting & masking