Lineform Creates vector drawings
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Creates vector drawings Lineform lets you work with vector graphics to create drawings that both look amazing and remain entirely editable. Lineform combines powerful features with a simple interface to enable you to create the drawings you want.Lineform is a tool that provides features only found in programs many times more expensive. These include powerful Bezier editing tools, great typesetting, Boolean operations, artistic strokes and a CMYK preview.At the same time Inform provides an great interface in a lean and efficient size.If you want to do any drawing or design from simple logos to complex diagrams, then Lineform is the ideal application. Here are some key features of "Lineform": Freeflow text: · Fit text inside any odd shape. Lineform does not constrain you to special text objects, but lets you put text inside any shape. Text is then flowed through the shape to create the designs you want. Arrows: · Not only can you attach arrows to anything. Everyone does that. But Lineform lets you morph the arrows creating beautiful ends to your lines. Morphed arrows look much more natural and give an extra professional touch to any diagram. LinkBack: · With LinkBack a user can paste content from any LinkBack-enabled application into another and reopen that content later for editing with just a double-click. Changes will automatically appear in the original document again when you save. This allows programs like Omni’s OmniGraffle and Keynote(+plugin) to share pictures diagrams and data simply and easily. Bézier Editing: · Complete freedom to edit any shape or curves. Lineform provides powerful Bézier curve editing abilities, that allow you to create, tweak and alter shapes to the way you want them. Bezier Pen: · The Bezier pen is an extremely powerful tool for any sort of digital illustraion. Lineform also allows automatic smoothing and conversion to bézier paths to make the brush tool ideal for freehand sketches and drawings. With this, you can use artistic stroke and tweak the paths to create natural drawings. Gradients: · Unlike some awkward interfaces for gradients, Lineform provides excellent interactive tools. You can interactivly set gradient stops from the palettes including transparency. And from the document you can drag and alter the gradients in interactive real time. CMYK Preview: · Printers and screens use different methods of creating colour. Screens use an additive combination of red, green and blue (RGB). Printers mostly use a subtractive combination of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK). Because of the difference in how colours are created it is possible to show colours on screen that cannot usually be printed. This is especially disappointing if you have spent a long time getting the colours right on the screen. To avoid this problem Lineform provides a CMYK preview. This provides a much clearer idea of how the drawing will appear when printed out. Artistic Strokes: · Make a boring diagram or a quick sketch come alive with artistic strokes. Just like any other line artistic strokes remain completely editable and can be applied to any object. Combined with freehand bezier drawing artistic brushes can make brilliant use of any tablet. Free Transform: · Simply rotate, shear, scale, and move any object where it is. No more bad rotation controls, easily click and drag to change the shape. Positioning and shaping objects is a snap. Outline: · For both text and arbitrary curves Lineform is able to convert them into outlines. This allows you to easily create shapes like the walls of a house or to edit the outline further using Boolean operations or editing the shapes to easily create the shape you want. Boolean Operations: · Lineform allows you to create complex shapes easily through powerful operations that allow you to add and subtract shapes together. These are called Boolean operations and allow you to create new shapes using the Union, Intersect, Subtract and XOR of other shapes. These allow complex and detailed shapes to be built quickly and easily. Universal Binary: · Run Lineform natively, at full speed, on your new Intel based Mac. Lineform performs beautifully on any new computer from Apple. Cocoa: · Cocoa is an object-oriented application environment designed specifically for developing Mac OS X-only native applications. Additional features include: · SVG · Core Image · AppleScript · Spotlight · Transparency · PDF, EPS export · Bitmap export at any resolution · Easy cropping of pictures · Powerful text features · Text on a line · 30-page manual Requirements: · G3, G4, G5 or Intel Processor · 500 Mhz or faster · 32 MB VRAM minimum · 256 MB RAM minimum · 20 MB hard drive space minimum · Internet connection required for registration Limitations: · Printed and exported documents are watermarked. What's New in This Release: · 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compatibility · Open/save operations under Snow Leopard work as expected · 10.6-related crashes fixed · Copy/paste of shapes copies outline color properly · Selection marquee no longer glitches text display · Layers work properly when running under French localization · Text Inspector works properly under French localization · New document border display improved · Combining paths improved

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