Menu Bar ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 39
Sel. Properties Bar .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 39
Main Bar .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Layer Bar ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Tab Bar ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Page Bar ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41
Status Bar .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 41
3.04 VIRTUAL MAT ................................................................................................................................................................................... 42
3.05 ZOOMING AND PANNING .................................................................................................................................................................... 43
3.06 OPENING MTC FILES........................................................................................................................................................................ 44
3.06.1 Opening a New File/Project ........................................................................................................................................................................... 44
3.06.2 Opening an Existing MTC File ....................................................................................................................................................................... 44
3.06.3 Previewing Thumbnails for Existing MTC Files .............................................................................................................................................. 45
3.07 SAVING MTC FILES .......................................................................................................................................................................... 46
3.08 OPENING BASIC SHAPES................................................................................................................................................................... 47
3.09 SELECTING, MOVING, AND DELETING SHAPES .................................................................................................................................... 47
Selecting .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47
Moving ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 48
Deleting ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 49
3.10 CUTTING, COPYING, PASTING, DUPLICATING ...................................................................................................................................... 49
3.10.1 Cutting to the Clipboard ................................................................................................................................................................................. 49
3.10.2 Copying Shapes and Copying to the Clipboard ............................................................................................................................................. 49
3.10.3 Pasting from the Clipboard ............................................................................................................................................................................. 50
3.10.4 Duplicating - Duplicate ................................................................................................................................................................................... 50
3.10.5 Duplicating – Nested Duplicate ...................................................................................................................................................................... 51
3.10.6 Duplicating – Rotated Duplicate ..................................................................................................................................................................... 53
3.11 UNDO/REDO .................................................................................................................................................................................... 54
Undo .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 54
Redo .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 55
3.12 LAYER BAR ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 55
3.13 RESIZING, ROTATING, SLANTING, AND WARPING ................................................................................................................................ 58
Resizing ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 58
Rotating and Slanting ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 59
Warping ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 60
3.14 CHANGING COLOR, TEXTURE, AND LINE STYLE .................................................................................................................................. 60
Changing Color ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 60
Changing Texture ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 61
Removing a Texture .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 63
Changing Line Style .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 63
3.15 OTHER SHAPE MANIPULATIONS ......................................................................................................................................................... 63
Alignment .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 63
Center Alignment ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 64
Outer Alignment ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 64
Edge Alignment ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 65
Spacing ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 66
Mirroring and Flipping................................................................................................................................................................................................ 66
4. IMPORTING AND EXPORTING ............................................................................................................................................................. 68
4.01 ACCESSING THE IMPORT OPTIONS ..................................................................................................................................................... 68
4.02 IMPORTING FROM THE ONLINE MTC GALLERY .................................................................................................................................... 68
4.03 IMPORTING SVG, SVGZ FROM YOUR COMPUTER .............................................................................................................................. 69
4.04 IMPORTING AI, EPS, PS, PDF .......................................................................................................................................................... 70
4.05 IMPORTING SCUT, SCUT2, WPC, GSD ........................................................................................................................................... 71
4.06 IMPORTING TTF, OTF FONT FILES .................................................................................................................................................... 71
4.07 IMPORTING FROM LETTERING DELIGHTS ............................................................................................................................................ 71
4.08 IMPORTING RASTER FILES (JPG, BMP, PNG, ETC.)........................................................................................................................... 73
4.09 ACCESSING THE EXPORT OPTIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 73
4.10 EXPORTING TO BASIC SHAPES .......................................................................................................................................................... 73
4.11 EXPORTING TO MTC GALLERY .......................................................................................................................................................... 74
4.12 EXPORTING AS SVG ......................................................................................................................................................................... 74
4.13 EXPORTING AS EPS/AI OR PDF ........................................................................................................................................................ 75
4.14 EXPORTING AS A RASTER FILE .......................................................................................................................................................... 75
4.15 USING WINDOWS COPY/PASTE ......................................................................................................................................................... 76
Adobe Illustrator ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 76
Inkscape .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 77