← PrintMaster, rebuilt PrintMaster Shape Editor
GRAPHIC EDITOR
PrintMaster · Atari ST · 1985
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Drawing in Black

Shape

88 × 52 · 1 bit

As printed

120 × 72 dpi
Printed size
0.73″ × 0.72″
Dot aspect
3 : 5
Record header
0B 34 00 58
Record size
578 bytes
Ink coverage
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Library

You may use the following commands

Dstart DRAWING in black
Gstart drawing in GREY
Estart ERASEING in white
SSTOP drawing
TTOGGLE pixel on/off
↑↓←→move flashing dot
FFILL shape with a color
Wstart a WINDOW
IINVERT the shape
HFlip the shape HORIZONTALLY
VFlip the shape VERTICALLY
Ctrl-CCLEAR the shape
Ctrl-SSAVE the shape
EscEXIT Window Mode

Every pen, transform and window command here is the command set of the original Graphic Editor, recovered from PM.TOS on a 360 KB single-sided Atari floppy. Grey is not a colour: it is a 50% vertical dither, every other column, exactly as the 1985 editor wrote it. The 122 stock shapes are decoded from SLIB.SHP — 122 records of 578 bytes, each an 88 × 52 bitmap behind a four-byte header. Dots are 120 dpi across and 72 dpi down, so a shape that looks squat on this square grid prints very nearly square; the panel above shows it at true proportions.