Paint Shop Pro support - custom preset shapes in separat library?

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custom preset shapes in separat library?

Kirsten

2006-05-05, 11:02 pm

I think I have found out how to make and save a preset shape. But I
want to make a whole set of shapes to a special job. Is it possible to
put them in their own library and not together with e.g. the callouts?

And is it possible to delete custom preset shapes from those default
libraries?

Kirsten in Denmark

Fred Hiltz

2006-05-05, 11:02 pm

Kirsten wrote:
> I think I have found out how to make and save a preset
> shape. But I want to make a whole set of shapes to a
> special job. Is it possible to put them in their own
> library and not together with e.g. the callouts?
>
> And is it possible to delete custom preset shapes from
> those default libraries?

Yes to both questions. Create a folder to hold your new library. For
convenience we often make it a subfolder of C:\...\My PSP X\Preset
Shapes, but it can be anywhere. Point to it with the File Locations
button in the drop list of preset shapes on the tool's Tool Options
palette. Now you can export shape libraries to that folder. Use the
File Locations button to make it visible or not in the drop list.

Corel elected to omit the Resource Manager from this drop list for
some reason. It is a useful feature of all the other resources in
PSP, but you can move and delete libraries from the folder with
Windows Explorer.

Another useful organizing feature is to combine related shapes into
a single file. One of mine, "Map Icons.PspShape," contains 24
shapes. The names that PSP uses for the shapes are the names of the
vector objects in the file, not the name of the file. Be sure they
are not duplicated anywhere among the PspShape files.

Corel has "streamlined" their documentation about creating preset
shapes to the point of near uselessness. The writer seems to confuse
creating them with using them and also to confuse them with the PSP
"presets" (saved settings of the Tool Options), an unfortunate reuse
of terminology. If you get stuck, please drop me an email and I will
send you a review copy of the PSP 9 Help page, which answers the
questions you posed more completely than I have done here.
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Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com

Kirsten

2006-05-06, 7:08 am

Thank you very much for a quick and good answer!

It is also my opinion, that the new userguide for vers. X is almost
useless. It is a pity for a program, that is good at some functions,
more expensive programs like Photoshop and Illustrator do not manage as
good as PSP (I am making drawings on top of scanned images)..

I have followed your hint and have reinstalled version 9 to read the
help-files. Thank God the two versions can run side by side.

Also thank you for telling me that the documentation confuses the
"presets" - I was afraid I was the one who was confuse :-)

Kirsten in Denmark

Dave Symes

2006-05-06, 6:56 pm

In article <1146903931.017969.173410@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Kirsten <kibj@tdcadsl.dk> wrote:
> Thank you very much for a quick and good answer!

> It is also my opinion, that the new userguide for vers. X is almost
> useless. It is a pity for a program, that is good at some functions,
> more expensive programs like Photoshop and Illustrator do not manage as
> good as PSP (I am making drawings on top of scanned images)..

> I have followed your hint and have reinstalled version 9 to read the
> help-files. Thank God the two versions can run side by side.

> Also thank you for telling me that the documentation confuses the
> "presets" - I was afraid I was the one who was confuse :-)

> Kirsten in Denmark

Probably the most important thing to have, if you've installed Version X
is a PSP 9 manual.

Dave S

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