Glossary
- AJR
- Jpgfdraw's native
ASCII format. Files in this format should have the extension
.ajr. This format is primarily provided to assist
conversion to and from JDR files.
Referenced in: Introduction, Accessibility, Command Line Arguments, The Settings Menu, Configuration Dialog, The File Menu, Open, Open, Recent Files, Save and Save As, Close, Bitmaps, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format - backmost object
- The first object to be painted on the canvas.
Referenced in: Accessibility, Accessibility, Selecting and Editing Objects, Selecting and Editing Objects, Selecting and Editing Objects, Selecting and Editing Objects, Moving an Object to the Back, Merging Paths, Path Union, Path Union, Exclusive Or Function, Path Intersection, Path Subtraction - bitmap
- A raster graphics image.
Referenced in: Open, Bitmaps, Properties, Reducing to Grey Scale, Fade, Converting to a Path, Border, A Poster, A Poster, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, Known Bugs - bounding box
- The smallest rectangle that encompasses the object.
Referenced in: Configuration Dialog, Configuration Dialog, Configuration Dialog, Configuration Dialog, Selecting and Editing Objects, Scaling Objects, Shearing Objects, Grouping and Ungrouping Objects, Aligning Objects, Aligning Objects, Text Colour - bp
- TeX's "big point".
This is the same as a PostScript point. 72bp = 1in.
Referenced in: Command Line Arguments, Creating New Objects, Converting an Outline to a Path, Dash Pattern, Composite Markers, Marker Offset, Repeat Gap, Computing the Parameters for parshape, Defining the Typeblock, A House With No Mouse, A Newspaper, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, Troubleshooting - canvas
- The white area
on which you construct your picture.
Referenced in: Accessibility, Accessibility, Grid, Grid, The Basics, The Canvas, The Toolbars, The Rulers, The Status Bar, Creating New Objects, Bitmaps, Selecting and Editing Objects, Selecting and Editing Objects, Editing Control Points, Text Transformation Matrix, A Newspaper, A Newspaper, A Newspaper - combo box
- A GUI
element similar to a drop-down list, but can be edited if the
required value is not in the list.
Referenced in: Font Family, Font Size, Font Series, Font Shape, Pages - composite shape
- A shape that is described by an underlying shape
and a means of transforming it.
Referenced in: Combining a Text Area and Path to Form a Text-Path - construction mode
- Any of the tools except the select tool.
Referenced in: Accessibility, Creating New Objects, Creating New Objects - control point
- The
points that define a path. Line segments and gaps have two control
points, at the start and end, cubic Bézier segments have four
control points: one at the start of the segment, one at the end of
the segment, and two others that define the curvature of the segment.
Adjacent segments share a common control point. When a path is under
construction, or is being edited, the control points are shown as
orange or red squares. Composite paths also have control points that
govern how the full path is created from the underlying shape. The
composite control points are coloured differently to the standard
path controls.
Referenced in: Introduction, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Grid, Configuration Dialog, Curve Paths, Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points, Symmetric Shapes, Symmetric Shapes, Combining a Text Area and Path to Form a Text-Path, Combining a Text Area and Path to Form a Text-Path, Reversing a Path's Direction, Merging Paths, Converting a Path or Text-Path into a Pattern, Converting a Path or Text-Path into a Pattern, Converting an Outline to a Path, Lettuce on Toast, Lettuce on Toast, Lettuce on Toast, Bus, Bus, A Lute Rose, A Lute Rose, A Lute Rose, A Lute Rose, A Lute Rose - control point index
- Each control point defining a given path or composite
shape has an index relative to the initial control point (at the
start of the path). Use F6 (in edit path mode) to cycle
through the points in increasing order of index.
Referenced in: Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points - drop-down list
- A
GUI element that allows a user to choose one value from a list.
When inactive, it only displays the selected value. When activated
(usually by pressing an arrow button to on one side) it displays
a list of all available values from which the user can select
the required value.
Referenced in: Font Family, Font Family, Font Series, Font Shape, Setting the Normal Font Size, Type, Border, Alignment, Shape, A House, Lettuce on Toast, An Artificial Neuron, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A Newspaper - frontmost object
- The last object to be painted on the canvas.
Referenced in: Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Selecting and Editing Objects, Selecting and Editing Objects, Moving an Object to the Front, A House With No Mouse - Graphical user interface (GUI)
- An application with windows in which the user
can point and click with the mouse.
Referenced in: Introduction, Java Source, Java Source - grid
- Tick marks located
at regular intervals on the canvas. The grid can be locked so
that new points will be placed at the tick nearest the specified
position.
Referenced in: Accessibility, Command Line Arguments, Command Line Arguments, Command Line Arguments, Command Line Arguments, Grid, Grid, Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points - group
- A collection of
objects treated as a single entity.
Referenced in: Accessibility, Selecting and Editing Objects, Object Description, Editing Control Points, Editing Text Areas, Rotating Objects, Scaling Objects, Shearing Objects, Aligning Objects, Converting to a Path, Converting a Text Area, Text-Path or Pattern to a Path, Splitting Text Areas, Path and Text Styles, Path and Text Styles, Defining a Frame, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format - JDR
- Jpgfdraw's native
binary format. Files in this format should have the extension
.jdr.
Referenced in: Introduction, Accessibility, Command Line Arguments, The Settings Menu, Configuration Dialog, The File Menu, Open, Open, Recent Files, Save and Save As, Export, Close, Close, Bitmaps, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format - Java™
- An object-orientated language.
Referenced in: Introduction, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format - Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
- Also
known as the Java Runtime
Environment.
Referenced in: Command Line Arguments - Java™2 Platform, Standard Edition Runtime Environment (JRE)
- Allows end-users to run Java™ applications. The JRE can be downloaded from
http://java.sun.com/j2se/.
Referenced in: Introduction, Installation, Command Line Arguments, Open, Bitmaps, Bitmaps - Java™2 Platform, Standard Edition SDK (JDK)
- A development environment for building
applications, applets and components using the Java™ programming language.
Referenced in: Java Source - JavaHelp
- An optional
package of the JRE enabling applications to use a native browser
to display help topics.
Referenced in: Accessibility, Multilingual Support, Java Source, LaTeX Source - Multiple-document interface (MDI)
- A main (parent) window containing child
windows allowing you to process several documents in
parallel.
Referenced in: The Basics - object
- A
path, text area, text-path, bitmap or group.
Referenced in: Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Configuration Dialog, The Toolbars, Export, Selecting and Editing Objects, Selecting and Editing Objects, Selecting and Editing Objects, Moving an Object, Cut, Copy, Paste, Object Description, Editing Control Points, Editing Text Areas, Moving an Object to the Front, Moving an Object to the Back, Rotating Objects, Rotating Objects, Scaling Objects, Scaling Objects, Shearing Objects, Shearing Objects, Grouping and Ungrouping Objects, Aligning Objects, Aligning Objects, Defining a Frame, Defining a Frame, Type, Border, Shape, Only Displaying Objects Defined on a Given Page, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, Troubleshooting, Troubleshooting - path
- A shape made up of
line segments, moves and cubic Bézier segments.
Referenced in: Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Styles, Grid, Grid, The Toolbars, Close, Creating New Objects, Creating New Objects, Creating New Objects, Line Paths, Line Paths, Curve Paths, Curve Paths, Rectangles, Ellipses, Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points, Combining a Text Area and Path to Form a Text-Path, Reducing to Grey Scale, Fade, Reversing a Path's Direction, Merging Paths, Merging Paths, Path Union, Exclusive Or Function, Path Intersection, Path Subtraction, Separating a Text-Path into a Text Area and Path, Converting a Path or Text-Path into a Pattern, Converting to a Path, Converting a Text Area, Text-Path or Pattern to a Path, Converting an Outline to a Path, Path and Text Styles, Line Colour, Fill Colour, Line Thickness (or Pen Width), Dash Pattern, Cap Style, Markers, Marker Orientation, Marker Offset, Marker Colour, Winding Rule, Text Transformation Matrix, Computing the Parameters for parshape, Computing the Parameters for shapepar, Shape, Shape, Step-by-Step Examples, A House, Lettuce on Toast, Lettuce on Toast, Bus, Bus, A Newspaper, A Newspaper, A Lute Rose, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format - path attributes
- The line colour, fill colour and line styles
for the path.
Referenced in: Creating New Objects - pattern
- A
composite shape formed by repeatedly applying a given
transformation on a shape. Each pattern has a specified number of
replicas. The underlying shape may or may not be visible. The
pattern mode determines whether the underlying path and replicas are
drawn in one go (single mode) or whether they are drawn
independently of each other (multi-mode). Transformations (rotating,
scaling and shearing) are applied to the path not to the text.
Referenced in: Converting a Text Area, Text-Path or Pattern to a Path, A Lute Rose - popup menu
- A
menu whose items vary depending on the context. These
menus are usually invoked with the secondary mouse button. In
Jpgfdraw it is also possible to invoke popup menus using
F3.
Referenced in: Text, Selecting and Editing Objects, Paste, Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points, Editing Text Areas, Editing Text Areas, Lettuce on Toast, Bus, A House With No Mouse - pt
- TeX's point. Not to
be confused with bp (a PostScript point).
72.27pt=1in.
Referenced in: Command Line Arguments, Font Size, Setting the Normal Font Size, Computing the Parameters for parshape, Defining the Typeblock, A Poster, A Newspaper, A Newspaper, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format - raster graphics
- Representing images as a collection of pixels.
Also called a bitmap.
Referenced in: Bitmaps, Cut, Copy - rotational pattern
- A pattern where the replicas are created
by rotating the underlying path. In addition to the control points
defining the underlying shape, rotational patterns also have a control
point that governs the point of rotation.
Referenced in: Step-by-Step Examples, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format - rulers
- The two panels
containing the horizontal and vertical rulers.
Referenced in: Command Line Arguments, Command Line Arguments, Show Rulers, The Rulers, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format - Scalable vector graphics (SVG)
- A Modularized language for describing
two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in
XML.
Referenced in: Introduction, Image Description, Export, Bitmaps - scaled pattern
- A pattern where the replicas are created
by scaling the underlying path. In addition to the control points
defining the underlying shape, scaled patterns also have two control
points governing the scale anchor and the scale direction.
Referenced in: JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format - shape
- Either a
path, text-path or a composite shape.
Referenced in: Editing Control Points, Symmetric Shapes, Converting to a Path, A Lute Rose - spiral pattern
- A pattern where the replicas are created
by rotating and translating the underlying path so that the replicas
are aligned along a spiral. In addition to the control points
defining the underlying shape, spiral patterns also have two control points
that govern the anchor and offset.
Referenced in: JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format - stacking order
- The order in which objects are painted on the canvas.
To determine the reverse stacking order, deselect all objects, then
use F6 to cycle through the stack starting from the
frontmost object. Reverse this list to obtain the stacking order.
Note that the frontmost object is the last object in the stack, not
the first.
Referenced in: Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility, Selecting and Editing Objects, Selecting and Editing Objects, Selecting and Editing Objects, Moving an Object to the Front, Moving an Object to the Back, Grouping and Ungrouping Objects, Merging Paths, Merging Paths, The flowfram Package: A Brief Summary, Bus, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A Lute Rose - status bar
- The status
bar is the horizontal panel positioned along the bottom of
Jpgfdraw's main window.
Referenced in: Command Line Arguments, Command Line Arguments, Show Status Bar, Grid, The Status Bar, The Status Bar - symmetric shape
- A
composite shape that is formed by the underlying shape
added to its reflection in a line a symmetry. Depending on how it's
created, the symmetric shape may be drawn as a single shape, or the
underlying shape and its reflection may be drawn independently of
each other. The line of symmetry has two control points that can be
adjusted to change the overall shape.
Referenced in: Combining a Text Area and Path to Form a Text-Path, Step-by-Step Examples, A Lute Rose - text area
- An object
consisting of a single line of text. The text may be moved,
scaled, rotated, sheared or converted to a path.
Referenced in: Jpgfdraw User Manual, Accessibility, Styles, The Toolbars, Creating New Objects, Text, Text, Cut, Copy, Paste, Editing Text Areas, Combining a Text Area and Path to Form a Text-Path, Reducing to Grey Scale, Fade, Aligning Objects, Aligning Objects, Separating a Text-Path into a Text Area and Path, Converting to a Path, Converting a Text Area, Text-Path or Pattern to a Path, Splitting Text Areas, Path and Text Styles, Path and Text Styles, Text Colour, Text Colour, Text Style, Font Family, Font Size, Font Size, Font Series, Font Shape, Text Transformation Matrix, Anchor, Anchor, Anchor, Anchor, Setting the Normal Font Size, Setting the Normal Font Size, Automatically Updating the Text Anchor, Automatically Escaping TeX's Special Characters, Border, An Artificial Neuron, An Artificial Neuron, An Artificial Neuron, An Artificial Neuron, An Artificial Neuron, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, A House With No Mouse, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format, AJR Format - text-path
- A
composite object formed by combining a path and a text area
to create a text along a path effect. The underlying path is
only visible when editing the text-path object using the edit path
function. Transformations (rotating, scaling and shearing) are
applied to the path not to the text.
Referenced in: Export, Creating New Objects, Editing Control Points, Editing Control Points, Editing Text Areas, Combining a Text Area and Path to Form a Text-Path, Rotating Objects, Scaling Objects, Shearing Objects, Reversing a Path's Direction, Merging Paths, Merging Paths, Path Union, Exclusive Or Function, Exclusive Or Function, Path Intersection, Path Subtraction, Separating a Text-Path into a Text Area and Path, Converting a Path or Text-Path into a Pattern, Converting a Path or Text-Path into a Pattern, Converting a Path or Text-Path into a Pattern, Converting to a Path, Converting a Text Area, Text-Path or Pattern to a Path, Splitting Text Areas, Path and Text Styles, Text Transformation Matrix, Anchor, JDR Binary Format, JDR Binary Format, AJR Format, AJR Format - toolbars
- The two
panels containing buttons, the horizontal toolbar is positioned at
the top of Jpgfdraw's main window, the vertical toolbar is
positioned along the left edge of the main window.
Referenced in: Command Line Arguments, Command Line Arguments, Show Tools, The Toolbars, The Toolbars, Creating New Objects - vector graphics
- A means of describing images through the use of points,
lines and curves.
Referenced in: Introduction, Bitmaps