DAUB Dynamic Brush - Calligraphy in Windows ------------------------------------------- Whether you are a dabbler or a professional graphic artist, you need to have a look at DAUB. This unique calligraphic Windows program offers ease of use and high quality output, at a fraction of the cost of other vector based graphics programs. Its novel method of drawing and altering previously drawn 'brush strokes' results in stunning graphics that would be hard to reproduce exactly using any other package. Features include scaling in x and y directions, rotations, flipping, changing brush width, colour and orientation as you draw, altering previously drawn strokes in accordance with stroke length, curvature, slope etc. A unique feature is the smoothing function which can transform shaky hand input into beautifully smooth and flowing brush strokes on the screen. All the above can be performed on groups of strokes as well as individual strokes. Text is supported, and all installed fonts are available (including TrueType). Text can be scaled and rotated in the same manner as the brush strokes. Basic shapes such as ellipse, rectangle and rounded rectangle are also supported, and have variable line size, line colour and fill colour. Graphics can be stored on disk in DAUBs own format or in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS text not currently supported) for importing into high-end graphics packages. Graphics may also be copied to the Windows clipboard for pasting to other Windows applications. Full colour and sharply defined output can be achieved on any good colour Windows printer. For black and white work, laser printed output is razor sharp. Latest News ----------- DAUB 2.0 will be out before the end of the year - but don't wait for it, register version 1.5 now and get version 2.0 for nothing when available. *** The DAUB 2.0 demo included here is a very incomplete version of the *** *** program you will get with the free upgrade. *** Since it is a big step up, the registration fee for version 2.0 will probably be higher than the current fee. Update History -------------- Version 1.5 Nov 1993 Addition of text objects and associated functions. Main menu rearranged to prevent top level getting too large. Most brush stroke functions put under one main menu item. Similarly for text. Further minor cosmetic and functional changes to the program. A bug from version 1.24 will cause graphics created under v1.24 to trigger an error message when read in. However, the problem will not recurr after the graphic is saved again under v1.5. Version 1.24 Sep 1993 Minor cosmetic changes and updates to program and documentation. Version 1.23 Sep 1993 Selector menu items grayed/enabled as appropriate. Bug fixed which affected only strokes drawn from right to left. Memory requirements reduced significantly for storing brush strokes. Version 1.22 Sep 1993 Copying to the Windows clipboard in bitmap format was implemented (operates on selected strokes). Text line beneath the tool column was added to identify/explain the currently selected tool. Version 1.21 Aug 1993 'Hot keys' were added for Edit menu operations, e.g. the Delete key to delete a stroke or group of strokes. Tool column operations were made interruptable by the ESC key. Changes were made to the way strokes are selected and de-selected, to make the program easier to use. Most dialog boxes were re-designed and all implemented in the Borland style (except Printer Options). Menu item graying was added. Version 1.2 Aug 1993 The path attribute 'slope' was added to the Draw | Variable menu option. Horizontal and vertical flip radio buttons were added to the Move dialog box. The Options dialog box was extended to include background grid and 'snap to' functions. The group select tool was added at the bottom right corner of the tool column. Version 1.1 Jul 1993 First distributed version.