CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page About This Guide 1 Overview Learning by Doing Invoking the Graphics Editor Graphics Editor Windows and Menus Drawing Window Control Panel Window Hints and Other Help Hints Window Context-Sensitive Help Conceptual Help Command Line Help Graphics Editor Commands Exiting the Graphics Editor Restarting the Graphics Editor Backing Up Your Files 2 Creating Graphics Creating an Object Mouse Buttons and Keys Used for Creating Objects Creation Points Deleting an Object Creating a Polygon Summary of Polygon Creation Using Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Summary of Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Entering Text Summary of Text Entry Clearing the Screen Creating a Graphic Drawing Draw the Screen and Stand Draw the Keyboard Draw the System Box Draw the Cable Add Labels 3 Editing Graphics Editing Options Selecting Objects and Text Summary of Object Selection Deleting Objects and Text Summary of Deleting and Undeleting Summary of Mouse Buttons and Keys Used for Editing Grouping and Ungrouping Objects and Text Summary of Grouping and Ungrouping Horizontal and Vertical Editing Constraints Moving Objects and Text Rotating an Object Aligning Objects and Text Summary of the Align Operation Copying Objects and Text Mirroring an Object Working with a Second Window Summary on Working with a Second Window Scaling Objects Summary of the Scale Option Zooming Objects Summary of Zoom and Unzoom Operations Using the Edit Points Constraint Summary of Using Edit Points Using the Ignore All Groupings Constraint Using the Attributes Menu Changing Text Fonts Changing the Object Outline and Interior Summary on the Attributes Menu Saving Your Graphic Formatting Your Graphic for Output Using the Export Menu Item Using DOCUMENT/GRAPHICS=RENDER Summary on Formatting Files Previewing a Graphics File Graphics Editor Commands Formatting a Graphic for Printing 4 Working with Images and Capturing Screens Using the Graphics Editor with Images Importing an Image Using Digitize to Capture Screens Cropping Images Formatting and Printing Captured Screens A DOCUMENT/GRAPHICS Commands DOCUMENT/GRAPHICS[=EDIT] DOCUMENT/GRAPHICS=RENDER DOCUMENT/GRAPHICS=TEXT_FILTER DOCUMENT/GRAPHICS=VIEW B Summary of the Graphics Editor Options and Menus C Symbol Font and Composite Characters D Using DECwindows Using Windows Using the Mouse Starting a Session Managing Windows Selecting Windows Changing the Size of Windows Shrinking Windows to Icons Expanding Icons to Windows Moving Windows Stacking Overlapping Windows Making Stacked Windows Stick in Place Releasing Windows Locked in the Stacking Order Customizing Your Windows Changing Window Animation Preventing Windows from Taking Input Focus Choosing Items from Pull-Down Menus Choosing Items from Submenus Choosing Items from Pop-Up Menus Choosing Items from Option Menus Supplying Information in Dialog Boxes Moving and Changing Settings in a Dialog Box Saving Your Settings Making Selections from List Boxes Scrolling Editing Text Selecting Text Copying Text Moving Text Between Windows Deleting Text with Pending Delete Editing Text in Dialog Boxes Composing Special Characters Getting Help Invoking Help Navigating in Help Searching Help for Titles and Keywords Exiting from Help Putting a Session on Hold Ending a Session FIGURES 1-1 Graphics Editor Windows at Startup 1-2 Drawing Window Pull-Down Menus 1-3 Control Panel and Keyboard Equivalents 1-4 Graphics Editor and Utilities 2-1 Drawing Created Using Polygon Icon 3-1 Figure Attributes 3-2 Graphics Editor Commands C-1 Symbol Font Characters on the LK201 Keyboard C-2 Composite Characters and Symbol Font Characters TABLES 1-1 Drawing Window Pull-Down Menus 1-2 Control Panel Sections 1-3 Graphics Editor and Utilities 2-1 Mouse Buttons and Keys Used for Creation 2-2 Creating Polygons 3-1 Object Selection Methods 3-2 Deleting and Undeleting Objects 3-3 Mouse Buttons and Keys Used for Editing 3-4 Grouping and Ungrouping Objects and Text 3-5 Attributes Menu Items 3-6 Graphics Editor Commands B-1 Control Panel B-2 Graphics Editor Menu Items C-1 Symbol Font Characters