Tips for Star Teck Genies;



Production Tips for Professional Draw Power Users

In order to get real performance from your genies, you must be
able to run them from keyboard short-cuts. This is done in your
Genie menus. Simply highlight the genie and hit "KEYS". You are
prompted to hit the keys you would like to be associated with
that genie. The keys that qualify for this are in your
"Professional Draw 3.0 Supplement Manual" on page 25.

For ultimate speed, power, and performance you can turn a Star Teck
Genie into a tool genie (also see installation instructions for
this procedure). A tool genie is run by simply double clicking on
one of the tools on the right side of Professional Draw's screen.
Three of these tools have been left vacant by Gold Disk for this
purpose. THIS IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR THREE OF THESE GENIES.

The three recommended genies are:

"GridSet.pdrx"
"ScalePercent.pdrx"
"ZoomWindow.pdrx"

After installation, they will be located in your REXX: drawer.
All you have to do is copy or rename them to:

"_PD_TOOLS_ADDP.pdrx"
"_PD_TOOLS_CUTP.pdrx"
"_PD_TOOLS_FREE.pdrx"

or use the InstallGenies program to do this for you.

After doing this you can call these genies by just double
clicking the mouse on either the "Add Points Tool", "Cut
Points Tool" or "Free Hand Drawing Tool".


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Here are a couple more interesting combinations to try with the
Star Genie.

                outside radius      inside radius     # of points

- square            1.0000              1.0000               2

- upside down      -1.0000             -0.3820               5
     star

- inside out        1.0000             -1.0000               4
   stop sign

- stop sign         1.0000              1.0000               4
 (after running the genie,
  you will have to rotate the stop sign 22.5 degrees)


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Working Environment
Workbench 2.04 and up.
Non AGA Amigas

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to view a whole Professional Draw
page all at once on your screen at a magnification of 1.
Unfortunately you would need a very large monitor and new screen
resolution not provided by your Amiga.

However, there is an alternative to this. If you have chip memory
to spare you can specify your workbench to be oversize. This is
done in your "Prefs" drawer. Double click on "SceenMode" and a
requester will open. Change the "height" to 1000 and make the
"width" as wide as your monitor can display. Turn on "autoscroll,"
and then close the requester by selecting "use" or "save." You may
have to close any other programs down that are currently running
to do this. When you are successful you will then be able to scroll
around your over-sized workbench by just dragging your mouse. Now
highlight your PDraw icon (single mouse click), choose "Information"
from the "Icons" menu at the top. Change "SCREEN=CUSTOM" to
"SCREEN=WORKBENCH" and then select save. Now run ProDraw. Double
click on the magnification tool, enter 1 in the requester (or just
hitthe #1 key). Drag the bottom right corner of the ProDraw window
to or near the bottom of your workbench window. You can now easily
view a whole page at a magnification of 1 by just dragging your
mouse up and down.