8 Welcome
• Brushes
Unleash the painter within you, with DrawPlus's powerful Paintbrush
Tool and the supporting Brush tab's galleries! Pick from natural media
brush types such as acrylic, charcoal, dry paint, pastel, pen, and
watercolour, or create your own. Using a pressure-sensitive pen tablet?
Pressure sensitivity is supported (via a Pressure tab) with preset or
custom pressure profiles and control over the maximum and
minimum pressure applied.
• QuickShapes
QuickShapes work like intelligent clipart… or the most powerful set of
drawing tools you’ve ever envisaged. Even extremely complex shapes
like spirals, stars, and webs are simple to draw and customize using
QuickShapes. Type text directly into any shape!
Text
• Working with Text
Apply and edit artistic, frame, or shape text right on the page... apply
basic formatting from the always-at-hand Text context toolbar.
Control advanced properties like text flow (wrap), kerning, leading,
paragraph indents, above/below spacing. Need foreign language
support? Simply paste text in Unicode format as either formatted RTF
or unformatted plain text. Font substitutions during the opening of
DrawPlus or PDF files offers an interactive means of managing
missing fonts. Use Spell Checker to proof your output—check any text
against an editable user dictionary.
Effects
• Perform Powerful Blends
The Blend Tool allows adjustment of blend steps, transform, and
attribute profiles (rate of change). Objects can be multiply-blended
(to/from other blends) to create truly stunning illustrations.
• Instant 3D with on-screen transforms
Transform 3D objects with in-situ 3D rotational control and editing.
Apply awesome multi-coloured lighting effects (with directional
control), along with custom bevel and lathe effect profiles to create
your very own unique contours. Hardware-accelerated rendering
boosts redraw performance (hardware dependent).
