Create
Illustration and Drawing Application
Create's collection of intuitive tools, custom patterns and
myriad fill and outline options make it easy for you to create
spectacular graphics in minutes. While offering high-end features
like multiple pages, auto-trace and font-to-spline convertion,
Create is still simple and fun to use. Create is suitable for
PostScript illustration and drawing as well as for newsletters,
brochures, reports, etc.
Features:
Tool palette: Line, straight line, curves, rectangles,
circles, rounded rectangles, splines, polylines, spline lines,
freehand lines, paintbrush lines, shadowed boxes, template image
tracer, super text, and paragraph text.
Layout tools:
- User-definable grid, rulers (picas, points, inches and
centimeters), unlimted zooming, grouping, box-grouping,
masking, locking, alignment, controlled distribution,
nudging, object layering and redraw toggling.
- Paragraph text tool lets you add RTF text and offers the
same formatting capabilities you would find in a
word-processor.
- Multiple pages support, object linking with other
NEXTSTEP applications, generation of editable curves from
any PostScript font, and filter support for conversion of
foreign image formats.
- Each object type--rectangle, oval, spline--has a unique
set of attributes. Object editing is done through
inpectors for quick and intuitive method. Line objects
include options for miter, flatness, cap, join, arrow and
dashing. Spline-type objects include additon and deletion
of handles, tension adjustments, etc. Super text can be
scaled, rotated and flipped horizontally and vertically.
Multi-object selection can be aligned or distributed and
also grouped for editing as a single unit.
Object special effects: neon, two-color graded object
outlines with user-defined smoothness and blend method,
user-editable fill patterns, multiple color-blended copies,
skewing, detachable shadows with both distance and direction
control.
Super text special effects: rose, circle, upper arc,
lower arc, kerning, and bind text to spline.
Paragraph text: alignment setting, color specification,
superscript and subscript characters, spell-checking.
Other Features:
- PS Code and PS Output windows to type directly PostScript
codes and see the results in the Output window.
- Imports from EPS, TIFF, Adobe Illustrator images and
TextArt document and images.
- Exports selection or entire documents to TIFF, EPS, or
Create library.
- NEXTSTEP on-line help and documentation.
Requires NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 or higher.
Now shipping in Multi-Architecture Binary (MAB) format.