Using
Color And Images
Drag and Drop Colors
Most graphic objects in your Chartsmith charts accept dragged colors. You may
drop colors into Bar series, Pie series slices, Area series, Histogram series, annotations,
titles, grid backgrounds, legends and legend entries. You can drop colors on
lines, all series data markers, axis labels, axis tick marks, titles, pie
outlines, bar outlines, grid lines and axes. And more.
Drag and Preview Colors
Chartsmith provides a powerful feature called color previewing. Color
previewing allows you to preview the effect of a color before dropping it onto
a graphic in the chart. Hold down the alternate key while dragging the color,
and the chart will update with the color as you drag over items that accept
color. This allows you to see exactly what you're about to change, before you
drop the color to change it. Once you've previewed the item you wish to color,
just drop the color and the change will take effect.
Drag and Drop Images
Chartsmith accepts dragged image files in some places. You may drag and drop an
image into a box annotation, chart background, Bar series, Area series
Histogram series and Bubble Series.
Exporting images to files
Chartsmith allows you to save charts in many different image formats by
choosing Chart->Export Image... In the save panel that appears, set the
image format using the popup toward the bottom of the save panel. The image resolution and compression
can also be set there, when applicable.
Images of charts may also be dragged out of Chartsmith and dropped into any
application that accepts TIFF or PDF pasteboards. To export TIFF images this way,
just hold down the alternate key and click in the chart. The TIFF icon will
appear, at which time you can drag and drop this image into any RTF document,
Mail, the Desktop, the Finder, etc. If you prefer a PDF image, hold down the
command key instead of the alternate key.