Text, vector graphics and raster graphics can be exported from a frame.
You can only select the Export
menu item if you
have selected a single text, raster graphic or vector graphic frame.
The object selector box will appear.
You will see the formats which Calamus knows how to write. When
you click on the Load
(or Replace
) button (see Object
selection
) you can now load driver modules into the dialog box.
The driver names follow this designation system:
The filename gives a short form of the external file format, with
the file extender (the three characters after the point) describing
the type of driver. The first character of the file extender is always
a C
(for Calamus). If the driver can only import, the second
character will be I
; if it can only export, the second
character will be an E
; and if it can do both, the second
character will be an X
. The third character stands for the type
of frame which the driver can work with: A T
stands for text
frames, R
for raster graphics, and V
for vector
graphics. The first eight characters of the filename are a shorthand
for the format of the file. For example, the driver WORDPLUS.CIT is an
import driver for text frames that can read data which had been
produced with the program 1st WORD Plus, and the driver ASCIIMEX.CXT
can both read and write ASCII text from/to corresponding text frames.
In addition to the regular buttons in the object selector box,
there's also a button labelled Export
, which by now requires no
further explanation. When exporting text however, there is also a
Fonts
button.
When you click on this button, the following dialog box will appear.
You can assign fonts to correspond to the different styles supported by the chosen format. The most common styles are Bold and Italic. If you want to alter the preset option, click in the field with the relevant font, and then in the overview below this on the desired font.
You can determine how italic text in the original document should
be handled. If the button Italic font
is selected, then the
fonts selected for Italic
and Bold and Italic
will be
used. If the button Italic style
is selected then Calamus will
instead slope the Normal and Bold fonts to give an italic effect.
A click on Exit
ends the assignment, and Calamus will use
the information for the next file.
Use the Save
button in order to save these settings in your
Calamus.SET file. Please keep in mind that not the real font
assignments and their names are saved, but only
the numbers of
the currently loaded fonts in their physical order.