drawSTUDIO's Features drawSTUDIO

General
  • Full 24 bit colour support
  • 1 bit, greyscale and colour redraw
  • Style guide complient Amiga interface with drag 'n' drop
  • ARexx
  • Multi-level undo / redo
  • Multi-level group / ungroup
  • Cut, copy and paste via the clipboard
  • Plug-in architecture for future expansion
  • Adobe Type1 font engine
  • Convert objects to bitmaps
  • Bitmap export in many common bitmap formats
  • Multiple projects open at any one time
  • Each project can have multiple pages
  • Each page can have multiple layers
  • Layers can be viewed, greyed or turned off; layer order may be changed
  • Many line styles and arrowheads
  • Compound objects
  • All objects support rotation to arbitary angles
  • Zoom range upto 4000 percent
  • Number accuracy to a mininum of 64 bits
  • Bezier editing, cutting, joining, add/remove points
  • Realtime object create, resize and move
  • Optional rulers and grid
  • Preferences and PostScript printing
  • Several line joins:
    • Mitre
    • Bevel
    • Rounded
  • Effect previews
  • Fully aspect ratio corrected display
  • Line
  • Polygon / Bezier
  • Rectangle
  • Rounded rectangle
  • Circle / ellipse
  • Arc
  • Text
  • Hand tool
  • Magnify
Tools
Fills
  • Fill styles can be applied to both the object fill and the pen
  • Solid colour fill
  • Pattern fill
  • Gradient fill
    • Linear
    • Radial
    • Circular
    • Conical
    • Multiple colour transitions
    • Colour transitions in RGB, HSV or step domains
    • Linear, accelerating, decelerating and dual blend
    • Gradient transparencies
  • Bitmap fill
    • Tiled (any X- or Y-DPI)
    • Fill to object
  • All fills support transparency
  • Text and objects may be warped with the following:
    • Skew
    • Perspective
    • Wave
    • Wedge
    • Bulge
    • Freeform
Warping
Text
  • Adobe Type1 font engine
  • Edit text directly on page
  • Text formatting:
    • Left
    • Right
    • Centre
  • Text may follow curves with the following effects:
    • Inside and outside curve
    • Backwards and forwards
    • Rotate characters on/off
    • Start rotation from any angle
  • Horizontal and vertical rulers
  • Snapping:
    • Snapping applies to object creation, resizing and moving
    • Snap to grid (X and/or Y)
    • Snap to object line
    • Snap to object point
    • Snap to object curve
    • Snap to object ends
  • Alignment:
    • Align to page or objects
    • Align or distribute
    • Align to left, top, centre, right and bottom
Layout tools
Import/export
  • DrawStudio (.dsdr) load/save
  • PostScript (and EPS) save
  • DR2D import
  • Bitmap import (IFF-ILBM, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP and PCX)
  • Bitmap export (IFF-ILBM, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP and PCX)

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