| FEATURE |
DESCRIPTION |
Multiple format
import / export |
Often it is necessary to combine bitmaps with your structured
drawings. DesignWorks comes with several import filters, including
IFF-ILBM, TIFF, TGA, JPEG, GIF, BMP and PCX.On top of this, to
enable you to be able to use DesignWorks graphics with other Amiga
applications (such as desktop publishers and word processors),
DesignWorks will export graphics in the IFF-ILBM bitmap format,
the IFF-DR2D structured drawing format, and Encapsulated PostScript
(EPS). |
| Multiple fonts |
DesignWorks supports standard Amiga bitmap fonts, standard Amiga
Compugraphic fonts (which will print at high resolution), plus
the "classic 35" fonts built into most PostScript printers. |
Multiple
drawing layers |
DesignWorks is the only budget-priced Amiga illustration software
that implements multiple drawing layers. Think of a layer as a
sheet of clear plastic on which you draw; multiple layers means
that you can place different parts of your graphic on different
layers and then manipulate the graphics on one layer without affecting
the graphics on any other layer. Naturally, you may also rearrange
the layers so that parts of your graphic are "on top of" or "under"
other parts. This extremely powerful feature is normally found
only in professional (and every expensive) Mac/PC applications
like Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, Pagemaker and Freehand,
for example. |
| Multiple documents |
DesignWorks will allow you to have as many open documents as available
memory will allow, thus enabling you to quickly and easily cut
and paste graphics between documents. |
Multiple
undo / redo
levels |
DesignWorks remembers what you are doing and puts the last 50
actions (depending on available memory) into a list. At any time
you may select an action from this list to revert to your drawing
as it stood when that particular action was performed. The Redo
function enables you to reverse (undo) an undo function. This
is a powerful, time-saving feature that you will find in no other
Amiga page design software. |
| Multi-page documents |
The size of your page designs need not be restricted by the page-size
of your printer. DesignWorks will allow you to work on poster-sized
pages, which it will then automatically break up into printer-sized
pages that you can reassemble into a poster after printing. |
Powerful
macro
language |
Often you may find that you are performing the same (or similar)
actions over and over again, manually. Apart from being time-consuming,
this soon becomes boring and is therefore prone to human error.
DesignWorks comes with a built-in macro language that enables
you to automate any process. As this macro language is accessed
via ARexx, this also means that any other program with an ARexx
port can send macro commands to DesignWorks. |
Context
sensitive
toolbox |
Exclusive to DesignWorks (yet again!) the toolbox presents you
with a different set of tools depending on which tool menu has
been selected. This revolutionary interface design means that
while tools are still easily accessible via a floating toolbox,
your screen is never cluttered with dozens of icons that are irrelevant
to the tool that you are currently using. As well as being less
confusing, this leaves more space on your screen for your document
window. |
| Printing |
For printing, DesignWorks will use whichever printer driver is
currently selelected in Workbench Printer preferences. |