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- <h2>Toolbar</h2>
- <p>The toolbar contains buttons for accessing many common commands,
- controls for configuring how the image is viewed, and controls for
- configuring how many of the tools perform drawing.</p>
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- <li class="nobullet"><img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar.png"></li>
- <li><h3>Common Actions</h3><p>
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- These buttons allow you to quickly perform many common actions. From
- left to right, they allow you to create a new image, open an existing
- one, save, print, cut, copy, paste, deselect, undo, and redo.</p></li>
- <li><h3><a name="ViewControls"></a>View Controls</h3>
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- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_ViewControls.png"><br>
- These controls allow you to modify how the image is presented to you.
- The first two buttons let you zoom in or out, while the next control
- allows you to set a specific zoom level. You may also choose the
- "Window" zoom level, which causes the zoom level to be maintained such
- that the image is always (this is the same as selecting the
- <a href="View.html#zoomToWindow">View <font face="Times New Roman">→</font>
- Zoom to Window</a> menu option).</p>
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- The next two buttons toggle the visibility of the grid, and the rulers.
- The last control lets you specify whether you wish to work with pixels,
- inches, or centimeters. This does not change the units that are stored
- in the image; you may change those using the
- <a href="Image.html#Resize">Image <font face="Times New Roman">→</font>
- Resize</a> menu command.</p></li>
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- These controls may be used to affect the way many of the tools perform
- their drawing. The fill style may be set to control how shapes and the
- Paintbrush fill their shapes. </p>
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- The next three buttons let you select one of three shape-drawing
- options. The first one specifies that shapes will be drawn as just the
- outline using the primary color. The next one specifies that shapes
- should be filled, with no outline. Note that the shape will be filled
- using the secondary color. This is for consistency with the third
- button, which draws both the outline and the filled interior: the
- outline is drawn using the primary color, while the interior is filled
- with the secondary color. </p>
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- The last two buttons are a bit more specialized, and you may not ever
- need to use them. The first one enables or disables antialiasing, and
- the second one is used to enable or disable alpha blending. A more
- thorough discussion of these is available while reading about the
- <a href="Tools.html#antialiasing">Tools menu</a>.</p></li>
- <li><h3><a name="TextControls"></a>Text Controls</h3>
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- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_TextControls.png"><br>
- These control how text is drawn using the Text Tool. You may select a
- font, a font size, and toggle the three common formatting styles of
- bold, italics, and underline. You may also choose whether text is
- justified to the left, center, or right of the insertion point. More
- information is available while reading about the <a href="TextTool.html">
- Text Tool</a>.</p></li>
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- <font color="#808080" size="1">Copyright <font face="Times New Roman">⌐ 2006 </font>
- Rick Brewster, Tom
- Jackson, and past contributors. Portions Copyright
- <font face="Times New Roman">⌐ 2006 </font>Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.</font><font size="1"> <br>
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