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System requirements
Overview
Installation
Overview
Main program
Licence file
Directory structure
Setting up a shortcut
Starting the program
Client files
Overview
Overview
Graphical word processor
How Cad Publisher works
Job file and Job card
Positioning
Layer Visibility
Output order
Renderstyle assigning
Fonts
Object rendering
Viewing
Main Menu
Overview
File
Overview
Easy level
Professional level
Open Cad DXF file
Level
Overview
Views
Overview
Vector
Generate vector art file...
Bitmap
Generate bitmap image file...
Bitmap options
Color Space
Resolution
Anti-Aliasing
Appearance
Programs
Overview
Printing
Overview
printer port
Send file to printer...
Download fonts...
Send errorhandler to printer
Send end-of-file terminator to printer
Paths
Overview
Path to fonts
Path to patterns
Documentation
Overview
Window
Overview
Help
System Info...
About Cad Publisher
Client files
Overview
Open the .job file
Reset the "inputs" path names
Reset the "product" path names
Running a job
Running all of the jobs
Inspect Settings and Renderstyles
Inspect your settings
Inspect your renderstyles
Drawing setup
Overview
Tutorial
Overview
Starting Cad Publisher
Load first job
Opening a .job file
Load a CAD file to process
Internal defaults - processing
Load the first job
Your first view
Views and Plates
Overview
Getting around the views and plates
geometry view
monochrome view
color view
separations view
View the c, m, y, and k plates
CAD view
Summary of the first look at Cad Publisher
Second Job
Clone the job card
Load settings and renderstyles
Your second View window
Review settings and renderstyles
Review settings and renderstyles
abc.set (settings file)
abc.rsl (renderstyles)
Arrange the windows
Program feedback
Feedback from the program
Renderstyles
Renderstyle for filling circles with cad color
Assigning the new renderstyle
Viewing with filled circles
Custom color for Circles - filled
Update the Viewing
Renderstyle for filled polylines
Assigning the "polyline" renderstyle
View the filled polyline
Renderstyle naming
Renderstyle summary
Layer order
Controlling the output layer order
View with the moved layer
Font names
Font assignment overview
Assigning a Type 1 font name
View with Type 1 font names
Positioning
Setting up the Positioning
Products
Overview
Setting up the job card
Producing an output file
Summary
Overview
Job file - Job card
Overview
Naming
Create a new job card
Cloning a job card - duplicating
Delete a job card
Editing a job card name
Red file names
Sort jobcards
Switching a job name on/off
Tools - Product extensions
Inputs
Setting up the "inputs" on the job card
Select a cad file for processing
Select a settings (.set) file
Select a renderstyles (.rsl) file
Create a new "default" settings (.set) file
Create a new "default" renderstyles (.rsl) file
Clear cad drawing
Clear settings
Clear renderstyles
Inspect Settings and Renderstyles
Inspect your settings
Inspect your renderstyles
Output file products
Setting up the "products" to be produced
Selecting a product type
Selecting a product name
Selecting a "default" product name
Summary product names
Product name options - general
Vector formats
Acrobat file - job options
emf - job options
eps file - job options
Illustrator file - job options
PostScript file - job options
Gerber file - job options
Excellon drill - job options
Bitmap fromats
bmp - job options
jpeg - job options
tiff - job options
png - job options
Producing output files
run job
load job
generate products
run all active jobs
Quickstart
Getting started - quickly
Creating a new .job file
The new job file and job card
Renaming the job name
General
History - of processing
Long file names - viewing
Memo - job file
Note - jobcard
Tools - Product extensions
Undo changes - Redo changes
Settings
Overview
Create a new .set file
The new .set file
Saving the .set file
Redo-Undo
Memo
Note
Positioning
Overview
Load a DXF or DWG
CAD file loading
drawing
overview
fit
manual
limits
extents
units
scaling
origin
manual
limits
extents
page
overview
page size
units
sizeX, sizeY
orientation
margin - left, bottom
printer
printer
imagesetter
overview
header
feed direction
feed factor
scan factor
margin, pt.
image
overview
mirror image
zoom factor
zoom image
user header
user header
Layer Visibility
Overview
Selection methods
Create new layers
Delete layers
Ordering
Overview
layer rules
cad order
layer order
selecting layers
moving layers
sorting layers
duplicating layers
deleting duplicate layers
color order
selecting colors
moving colors
sorting colors
Rendering
Overview
by cad layer
assigning rendertyles
selection methods
loading an RSL file
by cad color
assigning rendertyles
selection methods
loading an RSL file
Fonts
Overview
Select the Fonts tab
Load a drawing
Rules for .set and cad style names
History
Overview
Selection
Global font selection tools
Select all cad style names
Deselect all cad style names
Invert selection
Assigning Render font names
Overview
Scaling and Obliquing
Overview
vertical text
Naming
Overview
New style name
Renaming
Delete style name
Sorting names
Tools
Overview
Select styles not found in the dxf file
Select styles with font...
Assign fonts to selected styles...
Font encoding
Overview
Cad font encoding
native
acad
xfont
autoscript
user.txt
Render font
winAnsi
native
custom.txt
xfont
Renderstyles
Overview
Create a new .rsl file
The new .rsl file
Memo
Note
Save your work
Undo-Redo
default
"default" - Renderstyle
Internal defaults
Naming
Overview
Create a new renderstyle
Edit a renderstyle name
Clone a renderstyle
Delete a renderstyle
Locking a renderstyle
Sort names
Plates
Overview
What's a plate
Plates can be active - inactive - blank
Copying and pasting renderstyle information
Copy the plate settings
Paste the plate settings
Clear the clipboard of plate settings
Generate separations from color plate
Globals
Overview
Globally set screens
Globally set stroke
Generate separations from color
Plate ink color
Cad Color
Cad color chart - conversions
reset all
Plot Pens
Plot Pens set up
default pen
default all
Objects - Rendering options
Overview
Rendering options for entites
Object selection
Arc
Circle
Line
Point
Polyline
Solid
Text
Trace
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3D Face
Donuts
Ellipse
Hatch - linework
Hatch - Solid
Mtext
Mline
Shape
Spline
Fill
mono, cmyk1234 plates
Overview
Editing % - lpi - deg
tint as percentage
tint as cadcolor
lpi = lines per inch
deg = screen angle
patterns
color plate
Overview
tint as percentage
tint as cadcolor
lpi (lines per inch)
patterns
Stroke
Overview
tint
overview
mono, cmyk1234 as cadcolor
mono as percentage
color tint as cadcolor
color tint as percentage
nib
Overview
width
units
linejoin
linecap
miterlimit
line
Overview
cadlinetype
continuous
dashed
Visual
Overview
Viewing
Overview
Start up condition
Views
Layouts
Viewing Fonts
95 vs NT & 98
Patterns
geometry View
View as Geometry
CAD View
View as CAD work
monochrome view
Overview
color view
Overview
separations view & plates
Overview
What's a plate
Plate ink color
separations view
Cyan plate
Magenta plate
Yellow plate
Black plate
Spot colors 1, 2, 3, 4 plates
Update
Update
Tools
Overview
Set display color
Calibrate display
Search - find text
Print (not implemented)
Information
Overview
Zooming
Overview
Fit page
Zoom in
Zoom out
Zoom factor
Zoom previous
Drag image
Patterns
Overview
Page 1 - patterns
Page 2 - patterns
Hatching pattern - angles
Hatching pattern - samples
Editing the pattern definition file
3D
Overview
Blocks
How they are handled
Changes to the program
Overview
Color Separations
Overview
Easy color separations
Viewing
Cad color
Color to separations button
Overprinting
Dropouts
Plates - red fill sample
Separating a color file
Spot colors
Trapping
Spread
Choke
Work flow sample
Batch processing - Command line
Overview
Path names
Conversion Tables
Overview
mm - inches - points
Hatching pattern, Frequency and stroke value
First time users
Overview
Easy version
Professional
Easy version
Overview
Professional version
Overview
Hints, Tips and How to:
Overview
Layouts
Overview
Limitations
Overview
Notes & Memos
Overview
Memos
Notes
Options
Overview
Blocks - insertion layer
Kerning - Illustrator files
PostScript Bounding Box
TIFF preview - EPS
Output File Formats
Overview
Acrobat PDF
Adobe Illustrator
EPS
PostScript
EMF
WMF
BMP
JPEG
PNG
TIFF
Resolution & Anti-Aliasing
Excellon Drill file
Gerber RS-274X format
Paper Space
Overview
Output
Scaling
PostScript Limits
Overview
Special Controls
Overview
BBOX - output for DTP programs
PBOX - automatic positioning
Support
Overview
Tools
Overview
Views - CAD
Overview
Xfonts - Cad Publisher screen fonts
Overview
Font history
Font names - PostScript
.shx font names
Extended character set - xfont
Symbol font - character set
Zapf Dingbats font - character set
Xrefs
Overview