MacDraft(r) MiniGuide
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Introduction:

MacDraft, from Innovative Data Design (IDD), is a basic collection of 
precision drawing tools.  Since the release of its original Macintosh(r) 
version in 1985, MacDraft has gained a following of over 85,000 users.  
Its main advantage is its easy-to-use, fully scaled drawing environment.

MacDraft now also runs under Windows(tm), Microsoft(r) Corporation's 
graphical user interface.  Conversion software for moving MacDraft 
documents between Windows and Macintosh systems is available from IDD.

This Demo Disk contains a version of MacDraft For Windows that has some 
features removed.  For example, it will print drawings, but it will not 
save drawings to disk.  Feel free to pass the demo version along to 
anyone you know who might be interested in precision scaled drawing 
under Windows.

About this MiniGuide:

This MiniGuide is intended to help you get a feel for MacDraft's user 
interface and will give you enough information to discover some of the 
program's capabilities on your own.

We suggest that you print the Guide out for easy reference; it's about 
16 pages long, depending on which model of printer you use.

This Guide uses terms like point, click, drag, and double click to 
describe how to use MacDraft's powerful features. If you are unfamiliar 
with these terms, refer to your Windows user guide.

NOTE:  You can also use the Help menu in the demo software to learn 
about MacDraft's tools and commands in more detail.

Hardware & Software Requirements:

MacDraft runs under Windows version 3.0 or later. Windows 3.0 itself 
requires Microsoft's MS-DOS(r) operating system software, version 3.1 or 
later.

Both the regular MacDraft program and this demo version will run on an 
MS-DOS compatible computer with a hard disk; a Windows-compatible 
display monitor; a processor chip from the 80286, 80386, or 80486 
families; and at least two megabytes (2 MB) of protected-mode (extended) 
random access memory (RAM).

Installing the Demo Version:

A setup utility on this Demo Disk will automatically install the 
MacDraft demo to a hard-disk directory of your choosing.

You must have Windows installed on your hard disk before you install the 
demo. (See your Windows documentation for instructions on installing 
Windows.)

The directory containing Windows should be in the active DOS command-
search path and the filename of the main Windows software should be 
WIN.COM.  However, you should not have Windows running or active when 
you run the demo setup utility; that will produce a DOS error message.

To install the MacDraft demo onto your hard disk, make sure Windows is 
installed (and exit Windows, if necessary).  Insert the Demo Disk in a 
floppy drive. At the DOS line prompt, type the letter of the drive 
holding the diskette, followed by a colon ("A:" or "B:"), then press the 
Enter or Return key.

The floppy drive will become the active (default) DOS drive, with its 
letter named in the command prompt (for example, "A:\>" or "B:\>").  At 
the new DOS prompt, type "Setup" and press the Enter or Return key.

NOTE: If the Windows directory is not in the active DOS command-search 
path, or the name of the Windows-launching file is not WIN.COM, then the 
setup program will not run and an error message (such as "Bad Command") 
will appear.  In that case, start Windows, then start the File Manager. 
Using the File Manager, find INSTALL.EXE on the demo diskette, then 
double-click on that file to launch the installation program.

When the installation starts, a dialog box will appear.  Text fields 
will list the disk drive and directory where the MacDraft demo is to be 
installed, and the Windows program group in which the demo's icon will 
appear.  (If the directory and program group donŐt already exist on your 
hard disk, the installer will set them up.)  If you want to install the 
demo on a different drive, in a different directory, or in a different 
program group, you can change the text in the fields.

To proceed with the installation, click the OK button.

The MacDraft demo will be copied onto your hard disk.  A graphic 
indicator will appear to show you the progress of the installation.  
When the installation is complete, the installer will launch Windows and 
display a dialog box, letting you exit the installer program.

Starting the MacDraft Demo:

Find the icon labelled "MacDraft" and double-click on it.  The demo 
program will start; after a moment, you will see the MacDraft tool 
palette and drawing area on the screen.

Scales:

MacDraft offers a number of commonly used English or Metric scales in 
which to work. To specify the scale you want to work in, pull down the 
Layout menu and choose Set Scale/Units. When the Document Scale & Units 
dialog box appears, click the button beside English or Metric,  then 
select the type of units (in decimal or fractional) you want to use in 
the document. Next, open the pop-up menu where the current scale appears 
and choose the scale you want.  Click OK.  The scale will be applied to 
the drawing, and listed in the title bar of the drawing window.

Menus and Tools:

MacDraft presents functions in pull-down and hierarchical (cascading) 
menus. A hierarchical menu is one that contains submenus, which are 
marked by black triangles appearing next to certain menu items.  Many 
functions, including MacDraft's drawing tools, are represented by icons 
on the tool palette.  Most tools always remain active so you can make 
choices quickly and easily.

You can control whether the palette is visible or not by using the View 
menu's "Show Tools" command.

The palette holds the tools you use to draw geometric shapes (objects) 
and enter text.  Most of the tools have a number of different options 
associated with them.

To choose a new option, point to the tool icon and hold down the mouse 
button. Several icons showing the options associated with that 
particular tool will pop up. You then drag to highlight the option you 
want, and release the mouse button. Once you make the pop-up    
selection, the tool will reflect those attributes until you change the 
selection.

Text:

You can enter text in either the paragraph or the regular "caption text" 
mode. The paragraph text mode allows you to define a rectangle of a 
specific size, then enter text.  The text will "wrap" at the rectangle's 
borders.  To enter text in the paragraph mode, activate the Text tool 
(the letter "A") on the palette by clicking on it.  Position the Text 
cursor (shaped like an I-beam) where you want the paragraph to begin, 
press the mouse button, and drag in a diagonal direction until you have 
defined a paragraph object of the size and shape you want. With the new 
text box still selected, enter some text.  Notice that the text wraps to 
the next line when it reaches the border.

To enter caption text, activate the Text tool and simply click on the 
drawing where you want to begin inserting text.  Note the blinking text 
cursor.  Type in the text.

MacDraft lets you edit the font, style, size, and case of words or of 
individual characters.  To alter text attributes, activate the Text 
tool, highlight the text you want to change with the "I-beam" cursor, 
then choose the attributes you want from the Style or Font menu.

You can also alter the appearance of text by rotating it.  (See the 
section below titled "Rotation of Objects" for instructions on how to 
rotate a selected block of text.)

Lines:

MacDraft lets you draw lines that are vertical or horizontal, 
constrained to a particular diagonal, or unconstrained (drawn at any 
angle).

Horizontal/Vertical Lines:

To draw a vertical or horizontal line, choose the Vertical/Horizontal 
line icon (shaped like a cross), then position the center of the cursor 
where you want the line to begin in the drawing area. Hold down the 
mouse button, and drag in a horizontal or vertical direction until the 
line is the length you want. Release the mouse button.

Unconstrained Diagonal Lines:

To draw an unconstrained line, choose the unconstrained icon (the one 
with no angle value) from the Diagonal Line pop-up menu on the palette.  
Position the center of the cursor where you want the line to begin, then 
hold down the mouse button and drag until the line is the length you 
want.  Release the mouse button.

Constrained Diagonal Lines:

To draw a line constrained to a certain angle, choose the angle of 
constraint you want from the Diagonal Line pop-up menu.  You can draw 
lines constrained to 45, 30, 15, and 5 degrees.  When you drag on the 
drawing area to project the line, the line snaps to the chosen angle of 
constraint.  It also keeps that angle if you edit it later.

Line Styles:

MacDraft lets you apply line styles (patterns of gaps and dashes) to 
lines, curves, polylines, and open freehand objects.  You have three 
line styles to choose from, and you can edit them to appear the way you 
want.

To apply a line style, select the line (or other object) and open the 
Line menu's Line Styles submenu.  Choose one of the styles.

To draw a line (or other object) with a line style, make sure nothing is 
selected on the drawing, then open the Line menu's Line Styles submenu.  
Choose one of the styles, then draw the line.

To edit a line style, open the Line menu and choose Edit Line Styles.  
Holding down the mouse button, drag through the submenu until the line 
style you want to edit is highlighted.  Release the mouse button.  Point 
above the line, then drag to the right to add gaps.  Point below the 
line and drag to the right to add dashes.  Click the OK button to save 
the line style and make it appear in the Line Style submenu.

Rectangles:

You can draw a variety of square-corner and rounded-corner rectangles. 
Square-corner rectangles can be drawn in two ways: from a corner or from 
the center. To draw a rectangle, select the rectangle tool, position the 
center of the cursor on the drawing area where you want the rectangle to 
begin, then press and hold down the mouse button, dragging until the 
rectangle is the size you want.

To draw a square, select a rectangle tool, then hold down the Shift key 
as you draw.

Rounded-Corner Rectangles:

The rounded-corner rectangle tool pop-up has options for rectangles with 
proportional ("P"), constant ("C"), or elliptical ("E") corners. When 
you draw proportional-corner rectangles, the radius of the corners 
increases or decreases in proportion to the rectangle's overall size. 
The radius of a constant-corner rectangle's corners remains the same 
regardless of the rectangle's overall size. Elliptical cornered 
rectangles have elliptical-arc corners that you can reshape with the 
corner-edit handle to give the desired appearance.

Circles:

You have the same flexibility in drawing circles as you do with square-
corner rectangles. You can choose to draw a circle from its border (by 
diameter, "D") or from its center (by radius, "R") or by defining three 
tangent points ("3") on your drawing.  To create a circle by three 
points, select the "3" option from the Circle pop-up menu. Position the 
center of the cursor on the first point you want the circle to pass 
through. Click and drag in any direction to the second point. Release 
the mouse button and drag to the third point you want the circle to pass 
through.  Click on that point.. Release the mouse button and the circle 
by three points will appear.

Arcs:

You can draw circular arcs by radius ("R") or three points ("3"), and 
elliptical arcs ("E") of any size and length. With each type of arc, you 
can change the shape and size of the arc after you have drawn it by 
dragging the edit handles that appear on it.

To draw an arc by radius, position the center of the cursor where you 
want to begin the radius of the arc. Click in the drawing area and drag 
in any direction until the line representing the radius of the arc is 
the length you want. Release the mouse button. Without pressing the 
mouse button, move the cursor away from the end of the radius line to 
create the sweep of the arc. Click the mouse button when you have 
projected the arc the desired number of degrees. The Show Size palette 
will display the radius length ( to scale) and the number of degrees in 
the arc.

To create an elliptical arc, choose "E" from the Arc tool pop-up. Point 
where you want the center of the ellipse that will be used to define the 
arc to appear. Drag until you have created an ellipse that is the size 
you want. Release the mouse button. Without pressing down the mouse 
button, move the cursor until you have projected an arc that is the 
length you want. Click the mouse button. The elliptical arc will appear 
on the screen.

To create an arc by three points, choose the 3 Points tool from the Arc 
pop-up menu. You can follow the above directions for creating circles by 
three points to create an arc by three points.

Ovals:

MacDraft lets you draw two types of ovals: diagonal ("D") and centered 
("C").

Use the Oval pop-up menu to choose the method you want to use to create 
ovals. Choose diagonal or centered from the Oval pop-up menu. For a 
diagonal oval, point to where you want the starting point of the oval to 
appear. Press and drag the mouse diagonally until the oval is the size 
you want. For a centered oval, point where you want the center point to 
appear, and press and drag the mouse until you have the desired size. 
Change the size of any oval by selecting and dragging one of the eight 
edit handles.

To make an oval circular, hold down the Shift key as you draw it.

Polygons and Polylines:

With the Polygon tool you can draw an object that automatically closes 
itself (a polygon) or an object that remains open on one side (a 
polyline). To create either one, choose the proper tool icon from the 
Polygon pop-up menu on the palette, press down on the drawing area, drag 
until you create a line segment that is the length you want, then 
release the mouse button. Without pressing down the mouse button, move 
the cursor to the end point for the next line segment,  then click the 
mouse button. You can continue moving and clicking to define a shape 
with as many sides as you want. Double-click to complete the object. If 
you chose to draw a polygon, MacDraft automatically draws a line between 
the starting and ending points of the object.

Freehand Objects:

Sometimes, you may want to create a free-form shape similar to a figure 
drawn using a pencil. In such instances, you can use one of the 
palette's Freehand tools (the loop icon or the kidney-shaped icon).  By 
choosing the proper tool from the Freehand pop-up, you can either have 
the shape automatically close (the kidney) or remain open (the loop).  
To get a smoother sketching stroke, hold down the Control key ("Ctrl") 
as you draw, or go into the Layout menu, choose "Set Grid," then choose 
"None."

Curves:

MacDraft's Freehand pop-up menu includes two other options: Bezier 
curves and spline curves.

Bezier Curves:

Using the Bezier Curve tool (the icon shaped like a sine wave), you can 
create smooth S-curves and flowing designs. You can use this tool to 
trace over paint-type objects, or devise your own original designs. To 
create a Bezier curve, choose the Bezier tool from the Freehand pop-up 
menu. Point where you want the curve to begin. Press and hold down the 
mouse button. Drag in the direction you want to project the curve. 
Release the mouse button. Without pressing down the mouse button, move 
the pointer to where you want the other end point of the curve to 
appear. Press down the mouse button. Holding down the mouse button, drag 
to define the rest of the curve's shape, as well as the slope of the 
next curve. Release the mouse button. When you have finished defining 
Bezier curves, double click the mouse button. You can move the handles 
to reshape and change the size of the Bezier curves you have drawn.

Spline Curves:

Using the Spline tool (the curve icon with spots on it), you define a 
series of points for the curve to pass through, and MacDraft fits the 
curve to the specified points. Choose the Spline tool from the Freehand 
pop-up menu. Position the cursor where you want the spline to start on 
your drawing. Press down the mouse button. Holding down the mouse 
button, drag until you reach the next point you want the curve to pass 
through. Release the mouse button. A straight line will appear between 
the starting point and the cursor to show you the slope of the curve 
segment. Without pressing down the mouse button, move the cursor to the 
next point you want the curve to pass through and click the mouse 
button. A curve will be fitted to the three points defined so far.

Continue moving the cursor and clicking the mouse button until you have 
defined all the points to be fitted. When you reach the last point, 
double-click the mouse button. The completed spline curve will appear. 
It will contain the current fill, and edit handles will appear on the 
control points you used to define it.

Reshaping Objects:

MacDraft lets you smooth freehand objects, polygons, and polylines, then 
unsmooth them if you choose to.

To reshape a polygon, polyline, or freehand, first select the object.  
Open the Edit menu and choose Reshape.  The Reshape submenu will appear.  
Choose Smooth.

After you make your choice, the object will be reshaped.  You can edit 
the reshaped object by using the edit handles.  To reverse the effect, 
you can open the Reshape submenu and choose Unsmooth.

You can use Smooth repeatedly on freehand objects, until you get the 
effect you want.

Zoom:

The Zoom commands magnify or reduce a portion of your drawing. To zoom 
in, choose Zoom In 2X or 4X from the View menu, then position the 
Viewfinder box over the area you want enlarged.   Click the mouse 
button.

To zoom out, choose Zoom Out 2X or 4X from the View menu.

Home View:

The view that appears on the screen when you first open a MacDraft 
document is called the Home View. Once you have zoomed in or out of a 
drawing, choosing Home view from the View menu is an easy way to return 
to its original magnification.

Saving Views:

MacDraft allows you to save different views of a drawing.  Each view can 
have a different location and level of magnification.  This can be 
useful if, for example, you know you'll need to revise a particular 
detail of a drawing at high magnification.

To save the current view of the drawing, choose Save View from the View 
menu, then type a name for the view into the dialog box and click the OK 
button.  The view's name will be added to the bottom of the View menu.

To display a view that has been saved using the Save View command, open 
the View menu and drag down beyond Save View until the view's name is 
highlighted.  Release the mouse button.

You can delete saved views using the View menu's Delete View submenu or 
Delete All Views command.

Rotation:

Using the Rotate command from the Arrange menu, you can rotate objects 
in either degrees, minutes, and seconds, or in degrees and decimal 
fractions of degrees.  (You can set the rotation units using the Layout 
menu's "Set Scale/Units" command.)

To rotate objects using the mouse, select the objects you want to 
rotate, then choose the Rotate command in the Arrange menu.  Position 
the rotation cursor in the center of the drawing area.  Press and hold 
the mouse button.  Drag in any direction to rotate the selected objects.  
By default, the objects will be rotated in five-degree increments.  
Release the mouse button when you have rotated the objects the desired 
number of degrees.

To rotate objects in one-degree increments, press and hold down the 
Control (Ctrl) key while rotating the objects.

To rotate objects in minutes, press the Shift key while rotating the 
objects.  The number of degrees will remain fixed.  To rotate objects in 
seconds, press the Shift key a second time.  The number of degrees and 
minutes will remain fixed.

To return to the previous rotation units, press the Control key.

To input rotation values for selected objects directly from the 
keyboard, choose Rotate Options from the Arrange menu. Enter rotation 
values by double-clicking in the appropriate text boxes, type in the 
desired values, then click the Rotate button.

MacDraft lets you rotate objects around their own centers, their datum 
points, or any point on the drawing.

To rotate a selected object around a point on the drawing, choose Rotate 
Options from the Arrange menu.  Enter rotation values by double-clicking 
in the appropriate text boxes and typing in the desired values.  Click 
the button next to "A reference point," then click the Rotate button.

A rotation cursor will appear on the drawing.  Move the cursor to the 
point around which you want the selection to rotate, then click the 
mouse button.

Adding and Deleting Handles:

You can add handles to lines, rectangles, polygons, freehand objects, 
Bezier and spline curves, and polylines by choosing "Add/Delete Handle" 
in the Edit menu. Position the tip of the pointer on the object where 
you want the handle to appear, then click the mouse button.

You can delete handles by holding down the F2 key and positioning the 
tip of the pointer on the handle you want to delete and clicking the 
mouse button.

Customizing Objects:

MacDraft gives you full control over the appearance of objects. You can 
change the thickness of lines, add a different end mark to each end of a 
line or curve, and create custom line styles. MacDraft also takes full 
advantage of the color capabilities of Windows.

To fill an object with a color, select the object you want. Open the 
Fill menu and choose Fill Color, then click the color you want.

You can also edit existing colors, using the Edit Color command in the 
Fill menu.

The color pattern feature allows you to create a pattern composed of any 
of the colors in the Fill Color submenu.  Of course, if you have a 
monochrome system, you can only create black and white patterns.

The Pattern Editor:

To edit a pattern, open the Fill menu and choose Edit Pattern. In the 
pop-up menu, click the pattern you want to edit. The Pattern Editor 
dialog box will then appear.

You use the Pattern Editor dialog box to edit the pixels that make up a 
particular pattern.  The large editing box in the center displays a 
magnified view of the pixels that make up the pattern. The small box on 
the left displays a sample of how the pattern will appear on a drawing.

The pattern editor operates in two modes: black and white (B&W) and 
color. By using the tools for black and white (B&W) and color editing 
located on the right side, you can add bits to a pattern one at a time 
or in a series, invert bits (available only in black and white mode), 
flood a pattern with a color, create a background color, or blend 
colors. To choose the color you want to apply to the pattern, point on 
the button in the lower right corner that displays a color sample. Press 
down the mouse button. The colors available in the document will appear. 
Holding down the mouse button, drag until the color you want to use is 
highlighted. Release the mouse button. The color you chose will appear 
on the color button. This color will be used for pattern editing until 
you choose another color.

Layers:

MacDraft allows you to use multiple layers in a document.  The number of 
layers you use is only restricted by the system resources available. 
Layers give you the ability to stack parts of a drawing on top of one 
another.
 
To manipulate layers, choose Layer Setup from the Layout menu to open 
the Layer Setup dialog box. You use the Layer Setup dialog box to define 
the attributes for layers, to choose the active layer, and to hide, 
merge, and delete layers. You can only edit one layer at a time. An 
asterisk (*) appears beside the active layer. You can also control which 
layer is active by using the Layer Control button located above the 
vertical scroll bar of the document window.
 
To add a layer, click the Add button. The default layer name, 
"Layer - #," will appear at the bottom of the list. To rename a layer, 
click the name you want to change in the Layer Setup list box. Type in 
the name you want. Click the Rename button. The new name will appear in 
the list box and the text box. To change the stacking order of layers, 
select the layers you want, press down on the Arrange button, and choose 
the Arrange command you want.

Position:

MacDraft's Position command lets you move all objects on all layers of a 
drawing at the same time.  You specify how far the image will be from 
the top and left edges of the drawing window.  (The edge of the drawing 
window represents the edge of the printable area on the page, which is 
usually a little smaller than the whole page.)

To change the drawing's position on the page, choose Position from the 
Layout menu.  In the Position Document dialog box, select the Left (X) 
field and enter the distance you want the image to be from the left edge 
of the drawing window (and of the print area on the finished page).  
Then select the Top (Y) field and enter the distance you want the image 
to be from the top edge.  Click the OK button.

If you accidentally move part of your drawing beyond the drawing window, 
you can bring it back by using the Edit menu's Undo command immediately.  
Or you can use the Position command again, entering different values in 
the X and Y fields as needed.  Sometimes, increasing the drawing area 
with the Drawing Size command (Layout menu) will also make all of a 
large drawing visible.

Symbol Libraries:

MacDraft lets you store and catalog commonly used images in symbol 
libraries, then easily insert the images into different drawings.  To 
create a new library, open the File menu and choose New. In the submenu, 
choose Symbol Library.  A new, untitled symbol library will appear.

To insert an object into a library, select the object on the drawing you 
want to save as a symbol, then choose Copy from the Edit menu.  (If you 
want to save several objects as a single symbol, select the objects, 
choose Group from the Arrange menu,  then choose Copy.)  Click on the 
symbol library window to activate it.  Choose Paste from the Edit menu 
to insert the object into the library.  When you insert a new object 
into a library, it gets the default name "New Symbol - #" (where "#" is 
a number that increases as you add new symbols).

To insert a symbol into your drawing, use the scroll controls to display 
the name of the symbol you want in the list box. Click the symbol name. 
The chosen symbol will appear in the viewing area at the bottom of the 
symbol library window. Open the Edit menu and choose Copy. Click on the 
document window to make it active. Click on the drawing where you want 
the symbol to appear. Open the Edit menu and choose Paste. The chosen 
symbol will appear where you clicked on the drawing. The Repeated Paste 
function can also be used to paste the chosen symbol anywhere on the 
drawing automatically with each click of the mouse.

Show Size:

You can use MacDraft's Show Size window to display the sizes of objects 
as you draw or edit them, according to scale in the units you choose. To 
display the Show Size window, open the View menu and choose Show Size.

End Marks:

End marks are symbols that appear on the end points of lines, polylines, 
open freehands, or curves.  You can put different end marks on each end.

To draw a line with end marks, open the Line menu, and choose End Marks 
menu.  In the submenu, choose the end marks you want.

Choose a left-pointing item to make the end mark appear on the beginning 
of lines; choose a right-pointing end mark to make the end mark appear 
on the end of lines; choose the middle of the line to make the end marks 
appear on both ends of lines.  Release the mouse button when you have 
made your choice.  Activate one of the Line tools on the palette.  Draw 
a line.

NOTE:  If you want end marks to appear on a curve, polyline, or open 
freehand, the object must be drawn or filled with No Fill (the "N" 
choice from the Fill Pattern or Fill Color submenu).

To add end marks to existing lines, select the lines, then choose the 
end marks you want from the End Marks submenu.

Dimension Lines:

MacDraft's dimension lines show the distance between two points on the 
drawing. If you change the length of a dimension line, the value 
associated with it will be automatically updated to reflect the new 
length, according to scale.

To draw a dimension line, open the Line menu and choose the dimension 
line choice (<--XX-->).  From the submenu, choose a position for the 
dimension text:  "Along line" superimposes the text along the line, 
"Next to line" puts the text above or next to the line (and parallel to 
it), and "Horizontal" makes the text horizontal, no matter what angle 
the line itself has.  If you want arrows or slashes at  the ends of the 
lines, choose them from the  Line menu's End Marks submenu.

Point where you want the beginning of the dimension line.  Press down 
the mouse button.  Drag the length of the object to where you want the 
ending point of the dimension line to appear.  Release the mouse button.

You can also draw a dimension line using the Tab key.  Select a line 
tool and begin drawing a line.  As you draw, hold down the Tab key.  
When the line has the length and angle you want, release the mouse 
button, then the Tab key.  The line will be instantly converted to a 
dimension line, with either the current end mark and text position 
settings, or (if no settings were made) horizontal text and large filled 
arrows for end marks.

Bitmaps:

MacDraft can import bitmaps.  These images sometimes come from paint 
programs or scanning devices, and may be imported from TIFF files (see 
the TIFF section below).

You can resize a bitmap by dragging any of its edit handles.  Unlike 
bitmaps, some bitmaps do not resize proportionally.  However, you can 
get around this by selecting a bitmap and choosing Group from the 
Arrange menu.  That will group the object to itself (put it in a "group 
of one").  It can then be resized proportionally like other MacDraft 
objects and groups.

NOTE:  MacDraft stores each bitmap only once in each document file.  
This means that you can copy a bitmap within a MacDraft drawing as often 
as you wish without increasing the drawing's size on disk.

Loading TIFF Images:

TIFF stands for "Tag Image File Format."  It's a standard format for 
high-resolution images, and is often used to save images stored with 
scanning devices.

MacDraft will load certain TIFF images (from files compatible with the 
TIFF 5.0 format) into drawings via the Load Layer command.  To be 
compatible with MacDraft, the file must have a file extension of "TIF."

To load a TIFF file into MacDraft, choose Load Layer from the File menu.  
Use the directories list to display the TIFF file you want to open, then 
double-click on the title of the file.  The image or images will be 
loaded into a new layer with the same name as the original TIFF file.

Each TIFF file's contents will be placed in a separate layer (with the 
same name as the original file), at the same onscreen scale as in the 
original file.  The images will appear as bitmap objects.  You can move 
such objects to other layers using the Cut or Copy and Paste commands, 
or you can (for larger images) use the Layer Setup command's Merge 
Layers option to combine them into layers with other parts of the 
drawing.  They can also be resized and cropped (see the Cropping section 
below).

Cropping:

MacDraft allows cropping of bitmaps:  moving edit handles to "cut away" 
part of a bitmap image, just as you might trim the edges of a 
photograph.  Cropping involves holding down the F2 and Shift keys, then 
dragging an edit handle of a bitmap object.

To crop a bitmap, first click the object to select it.  Choose Ungroup 
from the Arrange menu to make sure the object is not part of a group.  
Press and hold down the F2 and Shift keys, then move the pointer to one 
of the object's edit handles.  Press and hold down the mouse button, 
then drag the edit handle to define the new edges for the bitmap.  When 
you release the mouse button, the image will be cropped to fit the 
outline you defined.

To resize a cropped bitmap proportionally, you must select it, then 
choose the Arrange menu's Group command.  The bitmap will then resize 
proportionally when you drag any of its corner edit handles.

DXF Files:

MacDraft For Windows can import and export image files saved in the 
DXF format used by many drawing and CAD (Computer-Aided Design) 
programs.  Both the Open and Save As commands include DXF as a format
choice in their respective dialog boxes.  While this demo version of
MacDraft cannot save files, you can use it to open a DXF file by 
choosing Open from the File menu, then choosing DXF in the Open From
list of formats.

Conclusion:

Thank you for trying out the MacDraft Demo.  As you can see, MacDraft 
combines drawing precision with ease of use.  Tools like those covered 
in this MiniGuide, along with functions like onscreen help and the 
overall drawing environment, have made MacDraft an excellent value for 
basic drawing needs.

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as easy reference while you explore the MacDraft Demo software.