Create's collection of intuitive tools, custom patterns and myriad fill and outline options make it easy for you to create spectacular graphics in minutes. While offering high-end features like multiple pages, auto-trace and font-to-spline convertion, Create is still simple and fun to use. Create is suitable for PostScript illustration and drawing as well as for newsletters, brochures, reports, etc.

Tool palette: Line, straight line, curves, rectangles, circles, rounded rectangles, splines, polylines, spline lines, freehand lines, paintbrush lines, shadowed boxes, template image tracer, super text, and paragraph text.

• User-definable grid, rulers (picas, points, inches and centimeters), unlimted zooming, grouping, box-grouping, masking, locking, alignment, controlled distribution, nudging, object layering and redraw toggling.
• Paragraph text tool lets you add RTF text and offers the same formatting capabilities you would find in a word-processor.
• Multiple pages support, object linking with other NEXTSTEP applications, generation of editable curves from any PostScript font, and filter support for conversion of foreign image formats.
• Each object type--rectangle, oval, spline--has a unique set of attributes. Object editing is done through inpectors for quick and intuitive method. Line objects include options for miter, flatness, cap, join, arrow and dashing. Spline-type objects include additon and deletion of handles, tension adjustments, etc. Super text can be scaled, rotated and flipped horizontally and vertically. Multi-object selection can be aligned or distributed and also grouped for editing as a single unit.

Object special effects: neon, two-color graded object outlines with user-defined smoothness and blend method, user-editable fill patterns, multiple color-blended copies, skewing, detachable shadows with both distance and direction control.

Super text special effects: rose, circle, upper arc, lower arc, kerning, and bind text to spline.

Paragraph text: alignment setting, color specification, superscript and subscript characters, spell-checking.

• PS Code and PS Output windows to type directly PostScript codes and see the results in the Output window.
• Imports from EPS, TIFF, Adobe Illustrator images and TextArt document and images.
• Exports selection or entire documents to TIFF, EPS, or Create library.
• NEXTSTEP on-line help and documentation.

Requires NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 or higher.

Now shipping in Multi-Architecture Binary (MAB) format.