The KIllustrator Handbook
Hagen Hoepfner, Hagen.Hoepfner@gmx.de
English Translation: Ben Skelton, skeltobc@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
Version 0.2.1, 30 April 1999
This Handbook describes KIllustrator Version 0.6.5 by Kai-Uwe Sattler.
1.
Introduction
1.1 About the author
1.2 History of KIllustrator
1.3 About the manual
2.
Installation
2.1 How to obtain KIllustrator
2.2 System requirements
2.3 Compilation and installation
2.4 Installation of binary packages
3.
Application
3.1 General remarks on application
3.2 Drawing 2D-Primitives
3.2.1 Freehand tool
3.2.2 Polyline tool
3.2.2.1 Lines
3.2.2.2 Polylines
3.2.2.3 Closed polygons
3.2.3 Bezier Curve tool
3.2.4 Rectangle tool
3.2.5 Regular polygon tool
3.2.6 Ellipse tool
3.2.7 Text tool
3.3 Transformation of 2D-Primitives
3.3.1 Rotate
3.3.2 Scale
3.3.3 Shift
3.3.4 Modifying an object
3.3.4.1 Moving points
3.3.4.2 Adding points
3.3.4.3 Removing points
3.3.4.4 Filling objects
3.4 Positioning objects
3.4.1 Grid
3.4.2 Help lines
3.4.3 Aligning objects
3.4.4 Aligning text along a path
3.4.5 Grouping objects
3.5 The Layer Concept
3.5.1 What are layers?
3.5.2 Working with layers
3.6 Handling files
3.6.1 Saving drawings
3.6.2 Loading drawings
3.6.3 Importing and exporting drawings
3.6.4 Printing
3.7 Undo / Redo
3.8 Zoom tool
3.9 Handling colours
3.10 Changing the standard parameters
3.10.1 Global parameters
3.10.1.1 Page layout
3.10.1.2 Units
3.10.2 Default drawing parameters
4.
Frequently asked questions
5.
Appendix
5.1 Key bindings
5.2 TODO
5.2.1 KIllustrator
5.2.2 Handbook
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