idraw
The idraw distributed with ivtools is essentially the same as the
InterViews 3.1 idraw. It is still built on the
IV and Unidraw libraries
that have been incorporated into ivtools largely unmodified.
The other ivtools drawing editors have been evolved from idraw.
other idraw tips:
Hold down the shift-key while moving an object to constrain motion to only the x or y direction.
Hold down the meta-key (alt-key) when entering text, to get access to the upper half of the ASCII character set (128 thru 255).
idraw holds the keyboard and mouse focus, even from other applications, while entering text. Be aware of this if you find yourself thinking
the whole X server got locked up because of idraw.
idraw PostScript format
idraw saves its drawing to disk in a Postcript format constrained to be
readable by idraw. Here is an example PostScript
file in idraw format. You can load it into idraw or print it on a PostScript printer. Here is the same drawing embedded
in a larger and different publication, an example of how idraw PostScript format can be hidden in a larger (and different) PostScript document, yet still be extracted by idraw.
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