Environment
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- 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 document capabilities (several documents may be active simultaneously
- Online documentation
- Workstation or Floating license management
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User interface
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- 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)
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XAllWrite snapshot
Display
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- Zoom from 10 to 400%, full page, actual size
- 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® vector screen fonts
- Precise positioning along margin and ruler lines
- Margin modification
- Tab modification
- Horizontal and vertical ruler bars
- 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
- Independent formatting by page (two-sided page, double page, portrait,
landscape, ...)
- Image preview optimization (dithering)
- Display special characters
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Texts
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- Text insertion
- Search - Replace
- Color management
- Many typographic styles available: bold, italic, underlined, strike-through, shadowed,
small caps, factors, exponents, ...
- Import / export (ASCII, HTML, Xclamation, XQuad, ...)
- Paragraph formats (alignments, indent, interline, paragraph spacing, ...)
- Save text styles and formats
- Count: lines, words, characters
- Bullets and ordered lists
- Page break
- Sections
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Frames
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- Infinite number of superimposed planes
- Frame anchored to text or page
- Frame decoration (background color, thickness and color of borders, transparency)
- Wrap text around frame
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Images
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- 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, ...
- Centering
- Move within a frame
- Resize to frame dimensions
- Full Frame
- Image cache system
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Pager
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- Page number display
- Page numbering (direct access, redefinition of parameters)
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Printing
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- 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
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