Keywords: KDE, KIllustrator

# The KIllustrator Handbook

Version 0.07.01
Last updated: 08/11/1999

### Hagen Höpfner

Hagen.Hoepfner@gmx.de

This Handbook describes KIllustrator Version 0.7.1 by Kai-Uwe Sattler.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
  1.1. About the author
  1.2. History of KIllustrator
  1.3. About the handbook
2. Installation
  2.1. How to obtain KIllustrator
  2.2. System Requirements
  2.3. Compilation and installation
  2.4. Installation of binary packages
    2.4.1. rpm
    2.4.2. deb
3. Usage
  3.1. Some general remarks
  3.2. Drawing 2D-Primitives
    3.2.1. Freehand tool
    3.2.2. Polyline tool
    3.2.3. Bezier curve tool
    3.2.4. Rectangle tool
    3.2.5. Regular polygon tool
    3.2.6. Ellipse tool
    3.2.7. Text tool
  3.3. Transformation of 2D-Primitives
    3.3.1. Rotation
    3.3.2. Scaling
    3.3.3. Shifting
    3.3.4. Modifying an object
  3.4. Positioning objects
    3.4.1. Grid
    3.4.2. Helplines
    3.4.3. Aligning objects
    3.4.4. Aligning text along a path
    3.4.5. Grouping of Objects:
  3.5. The Layer Concept
    3.5.1. What are layers?
    3.5.2. Working with layers
  3.6. Working with Files
    3.6.1. Saving Files
    3.6.2. Loading Files
    3.6.3. Importing and Exporting Files
    3.6.4. Printing Files
  3.7. Undo / Redo
  3.8. Zoom tool
  3.9. Handling colours
  3.10. Changing the standard parameters
    3.10.1. Global parameters
    3.10.2. Default drawing parameters
4. Frequently Asked Questions
5. Appendix
  5.1. Key bindings
  5.2. TO DO
    5.2.1. KIllustrator
    5.2.2. Handbook
6. Copyright

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