If you want to draw a coherent line you have
to press twice at the end of a line to fix the
first one and to attach a new rubber band.

Try to draw the creation on this page in one
line

You can also easily draw rays (spokes) . After
you have fixed a line by the second pressing,
you press the function key Fl and the cursor
will jump back to the beginning of the line.
From there you draw another line and, by El,
back to the beginning a.s.o.

Fl is the graphic tabulator which remembers
always the first point of a line, the center
point of a circle or the first point of a
rectangle or move frame and which always
brings the cursor back to it by pressing a
key. You can also use FR to define a
tabulator point: Put the cursor on any point
on the monitor, press FR, move the cursor and
press F7. And immediately the cursor is on
the defined place again.




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The order for rectangles (icon right beside
the line command) you may try yourself now.
When you are able to draw a 3D tunnel like on
this page, you are almost en expert in
handling Handyscan.
Now we come to the command for circles and
ellipses. Click on the corresponding icon and
then go ahead: With the first mouse key
pressing you mark the center point, with the
second pressing the radius in horizontal and
vertical direction. By the way, hold the
mouse key until the rubber band quiets down.
Otherwise you dont get rid of it anymore.




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Now you are ready for drawing ellipses. But
how to get an exact round circle? One
possibility is to put the cursor directly
under or over the center point, which means
you let the circle shrink to a line. But
Handyscan draws no line, it will draw a
circle.

Another way is the display of the coordinates.
Simply press the key 0 in the center of the
circle immediately before or after the first
press on the button. The display of the
coordinates on the right hand end of the menu
board jumps to 0 and shows you the distance to
the center point by moving the cursor. The
upper number is then the X-coordinate
(horizontal distance) the lower the
Y-coordinate (horizontal distance) . When you
place the cursor so that both numbers are
equal, you get a round circle.

If it doesnt look round on the monitor, its
because the monitor distorts the picture: It
Wouldnt look round in print either. If you
want to draw a circle who appears round in
print, you will have to switch the coordinate
display to millimeters. First you click the
display of coordinates and two ms will
appear, which stand for millimeter. Now you
can measure all distances in the picture in
millimeters, the radius of a circle also. Now
draw a round circle in millimeters and you
will immediately see the difference to a
circle done in pixels.








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You can switch from the display of coordinates 4
to pixel by clicking once more. And how big
is the complete memory printed on paper? Try
to find it out without actually printing. The

display of coordinates works only with Epson
compatible 9- or 24-needle printers (+/- 1% 
deviation). Its not compatible with the
7-needle Commodore printers. One remark yet
to the circle function: The radius is limited
to a maximum of 255 points, bigger circles
Handyscan cant handle.
Lines, circles or rectangles can be erased (it		
makes sense on dark background) when you press
the key together with the Shift key.

The center of a circle will also be stored -
like the starting point of a line as a
tabulator on the F7 function key.Thus it is
simple to draw concentric circles or a pie
graphic like the one below.

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Handyscan the pattern program

Please dont erase the pie graphic yet,
because we want to decorate it with different
patterns and label them. Now click on the
filling icon beside, the circle.

Put the cursor now in one of the pie fields
and press the right mouse key. The area will
be filled completely, Would you rather have a
pattern? No problem, simply select one. You
can even click several, which then become
overlayed. Whenever you dont like the
pattern you got, click undo on and you may
start again.


Storage splitting in the Edison system


But the pattern function is not only suitable
for filling. For example, dray a rectangle.
Generally with the pattern function you can
cover everything and it can also be erased by
Undo.



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Until now we have only used the screen
character sets of the C 64. But Handyscan is
a real writing expert because it can reload
the character sets of the DTP programs
Printfox und Pagefox from the disk. On the
program disk, there are twelve of these
character sets. A survey of it you find on
this page below. Load one of these character
sets by clicking on the left of the disk
symbols and click the wanted character set
when the table of contents appear on the
screen. There is no difference between "load"
or "mix" as far as the character sets are
concerned, so you may answer either. Now you
can write with the loaded character sets.





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