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identification and a value indicating the percentage of memory space available for pic-ture creation.
Calculator displays a multifunction calculator. Refer to Chapter 1 for complete operation instructions.
Clock displays a real-time clock and calendar. Refer to Chapter 1 for complete operation instructions.
Print Spooler displays a list of documents and pictures for printing. Refer to Chap-ter 1 for complete operation instructions.
Snapshot displays a screen-to-disk camera. Refer to Chapter 3 for complete oper-ation instructions.
File Menu (Fig. 4-5)
New creates a new, blank picture. If you are working on a picture when you choose this command, GEM Draw erases this picture without saving it.
Open ... loads a previously saved picture into GEM Draw. You can use this com-mand to load and work on two different pictures simultaneously.
To Work on two pictures:
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Display the File Menu.o
Choose the Open . . . command. The ITEM SELECTOR dialog appears.o
Double-click on the first picture's name. This picture will be loaded into GEM Draw.o
Reduce the size of the current GEM Draw window with the Size Box.o
Display the File Menu.o
Choose the Open . . . command. The ITEM SELECTOR dialog appears.o
Double-click on the second picture's name. This picture will be loaded into GEM Draw.o
Position the second picture's window.o
Click in the window that you will be copying from.o
Choose the Select Mode Icon.o
Place the pointer directly over the element.o
Click the mouse button.o
Drag the element to the window that you will be copying to.Repeat these last five steps for all elements that need to be copied.
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Close and save both of the windows.Close closes the active window and saves the current picture, if any changes were made. The picture is removed from the Drawing Surface.
Save saves the current picture under its same name. This is also called "updat-ing." The picture stays on the Drawing Surface following the save.
Save as ... saves the current picture under any specified name. An ITEM SELEC-TOR dialog appears for naming this picture. The picture stays on the Drawing Sur-face following this save. This is known as "backing up."
Abandon erases the current picture and replaces it with a picture of the same name from the storage disk.
To Output ... sends one or more pictures to the selected output device via the OUTPUT application. Refer to Chapter 1 for complete operation instructions on GEM OUTPUT.
Quit erases the current picture without saving it, exits GEM Draw, and returns to the GEM Desktop.
Edit Menu (Fig. 4-6)
Delete erases the current element from the Drawing Surface.
Undelete restores the last element that was erased from the Drawing Surface.
The action of this command is dependent on any layer changes that you make between the element deletion and restoration. In other words, barring any changes, an element will be restored to its original layer. If any layer changes have occurred, then the re-stored element will be placed in the top layer.
Duplicate makes a single copy of the current element. This copy is placed in the top layer and in the grid unit that is to the right and down. The copy then becomes the current element.
Select All makes every element in the picture current. With this command, ex-tents appear around every element. Clicking the pointer in an open space on the Draw-ing Surface will cancel this command.
Font Menu (Fig. 4-7)
Font Faces comprises the top command section of this menu. Determines the font that will be used with the Text element. The leading font is Swiss. Other Font Faces will be installed as they become available. If a font is unavailable, it appears as a light, dimmed name. A check mark is placed next to the current Font Face.
Font Point comprises the middle command section of this menu. Sets the font point or size characteristic. Sizes range from 10 point to 72 point. This command is used for changing the size of Text elements. A check mark is placed next to the cur-rent Font Point.
Font Style comprises the bottom command section of this menu. Selects the font style or print characteristics. The styles include: Normal, Bold, Italic, and Underline.
A check mark is placed next to the current Font Style. More than one of these styles can be used at the same time. To deactivate a style, click on the same command and remove the check mark.
Page Menu (Fig. 4-8)
Full View places the complete picture in the active window.
Normal View displays Text elements in their proper proportions. The preferred view for dealing with pictures containing text.
Zoom in magnifies the selected portion of a picture. Choosing this command in-creases the size of the picture window by a factor of two. A maximum enlargement of six times is obtainable through this command.
Zoom out reduces the selected portion of a picture. Choosing this command
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decreases the size of the picture window by a factor of two. A maximum reduction to an equivalent Full View condition is obtainable through this command.
Hide/Show Grid removes or displays the Drawing Surface grid. This grid is simi-lar to a sheet of graph paper being placed over the GEM Draw active window.
Turn Snap On/Off. In the "On" state, this command causes each element to be placed at the nearest grid intersection. The grid does not need to be visible for this command to be used. Only the element "snaps" to this grid position and not the pointer.
Hide/Show Rulers removes or displays a pair of scaled drawing rulers. These rulers appear along the top and left-hand borders of the Drawing Surface. Either met-ric or U.S. measurements can be set on these rulers. The type of measurements is de-termined by the current settings of the Format ... command. These rulers will not print on any output device.
Ruler Spacing ... sets the measurement units for the rulers. Choosing this com-mand displays the RULER SPACING dialog. This dialog contains two selection fields:
inches and centimeters. Only one of these fields can be active at a single time. The
Format ... controls the physical layout of the picture. Choosing this command displays the FORMAT dialog. This dialog contains three fields: layout, paper, and bor-der. The choices made in these fields will affect many of the other commands in the Page Menu.
The Layout Format ... Field contains two choices: portrait and landscape. This field determines how the picture will be oriented during drawing and in any subsequent output.
Portrait-A vertical placement.
Landscape-A horizontal placement.
The Paper Format ... Field contains six choices: letter, legal, double, AS, A4, and A3. Each of these choices also has an accompanying set of dimensions. Two addi-tional subfields serve to separate these choices into U.S. and metric measurements.
U.S.-Letter, legal, and double.
All of the commands in this menu are inactive until an element has been made cur-rent. These inactive commands are displayed as light, dimmed names. When an ele-ment is current all of these commands will have dark, bold names, which indicates that they are active.
Put in Front places the current element in the top layer. In a group of elements,