Xclamation

Environment

• 100% Unix native
• Supported by most Unix platforms: AIX, DIGITAL-UNIX, DG/UX, FREEBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, LINUX, LINUX SPARC, MIPS, NETBSD, OSF/1, SCO, SOLARIS PC, SOLARIS SPARC, SUNOS, UNIXWARE, ...
• X11 / Motif Graphical User Interface, available in English, French, German or Spanish
• Adjustable interface
• International character support (ISO Latin-1)
• PostScript® Type 1 fonts
• WYSIWYG display
• Multiple documents capabilities (several documents may be active simultaneously
• Online documentation
• Workstation or Floating license management

User Interface

• Mouse and keyboard shortcuts
• Pulldown menus
• Contextual menus
• Thematic toolbars dynamically displayed
• Adjustable document windows
• Clipboard window
• Cut - Copy - Paste
• Drag & Drop
• Trash (to remove an object, drag it into the trash)
• Dynamic information bar (describes commands and tools)
• Continuous contextual access to on-line help using any HTML browser (XMayday or other)

Display

• Zoom from 10 to 400%, full page, actual size
• Magnification by page
• Available for monochrome, 8, 15, 16, 24 bit X servers
• Color definition according to modes: RGB, CMYK (with black optimization), HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) and grayscale
• Customizable color palette (16 million colors possible)
• Many integrated PostScript® scalable screen fonts
• Magnetism (for precise positioning along margin and ruler lines)
• Horizontal and vertical ruler bars (with modifiable point of origin)
• Multiple windows (allows movement of objects between windows and documents)
• Selection of the object display plane (bring forward/push back)
• Worksheets displayed in cascade or tile format
• Multiple selection capability
• Independent formatting by page (two-sided page, double page, portrait, landscape, ...)
• Image preview optimization (dithering)

Pager

• Page display
• Page numbering (direct access, insertion, deletion, redefinition of parameters)

Frames

• Creation of squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses and polygons
• Size and shape modification
• Polygon modification by reshape points
• Infinite number of superimposed planes
• Logical graphic operations (add, subtract, join, cut)
• Horizontal and vertical alignments (classic or distributed)
• Lock to prevent modification (for individual or frame groups)
• Rotation (exact or in stages)
• Stretch while rotating
• Scaling
• Frame decoration (background color, thickness and color of borders, transparency)
• Detour around frames

Images

• Supports the following imported bitmap formats: JPEG, TIFF, GIF, TARGA, PNG, PCX, XWD, BMP, RLE, PPM, PGM, PBM, MacPaint, Sun Raster, ...
• Supports the following imported vector drawing formats: Adobe Illustrator® (AI), WMF, Xfig, XQuad, ...
• Center
• Move within a frame
• Resize to frame dimensions
• Full Frame
• Horizontal and vertical mirror effects
• Rapid rotations

Texts

• Embedded editor
• Color management
• Many typographic styles: bold, italic, underlined, strike-through, shadowed, small caps, factors, exponents, ...
• Import / export (ASCII, HTML, Xclamation, XQuad, ...)
• Specifications (justification, distribution, indentation, ...)
• Save text specifications and styles
• Text string capability through several frames
• Scalable font rotation

Printing

• PostScript® printing
• Printer selection
• Choice of number of copies
• Choice of page formats (standard and personalized formats)
• Portrait or landscape orientation
• Margin definition
• Color or grayscale printout
• Draft mode
• Print to a file