Main Features

• Fractals: fractal lines, polylines and curves for rivers and coastliness
• Instant Graph Paper generation: Square grids, Hexagonal grids, Triangular grids, Diamond grids, Polar grids, Rotated Hex grids, Half-Diamond grids or none. The grids can be of any color or size and are fully scalable and designable with secondary grids. Styles for the grids as well for the secondary grids. Grids can be drawn on top of objects.
• Chart navigation rosettes: quick and handy way to make your map look like an antique! It creates old-fashioned chart navigation rosettes as found on very old maps.
• Fill Patterns: All polygon objects can be filled with a bitmap pattern (Black and White only).
• Zoom In/Out and Zoom Percentage Toolbar: Pre-configured numbers of 500%, 400%, 300%, 200%, 150%, 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%,10%, "Fit". But if you want a magnification of 2000% (by example), just put the number and type enter.
• Views: enables you to easily return the map display to a known state. Helps keeping track of and saving a print area, retaining distinct graph paper options to superimpose on a map and switching between views that have different sets of visible or frozen overlays
• Grid snapping: Snap-to-grid and snap-to-point
  
• Transformation functions: Move, scale, rotate, skew, flip, align, and array create transformations
• Full Undo/Redo level support: 20 levels by default. But you could put whatever value who fits your need. AutoREALM protects your work!
• Bitmap objects for special symbols or for tracing scanned images
• Crosshair cursor for precise alignment (optional) : this is intended to provide a quick mean to align different objects together. But if you want more precision, go to the fully loaded Alignment menu option : menu Transform | Align...
• Measures in standard and friendly RPG scales: Centimeters, Inches, Feet, Cubits, Yards, Meters, Fathoms, Rods, Chains, Furlongs, Kilometers, Stadia, Miles, Nautical Miles, Leagues, Days by foot/horse, AU, Light years, Parsecs
• AutoNAME, a random name generator. Styles available : Arabesque, Dwarven, English, Francais, Japanese, Mad Jack, Player/NPC scores, Orc tribes, Terrible Places and Tolkien. You can paste and copy these names into your maps to add ambient names to your different places.
• Overlays: Multiple layers (10+ and more) with freezing and color-coded viewing
• Glyph line styles like pack-ice, water boundary, and castle walls
• Text fonts: AutoREALM uses the standard Truetype fonts provided with Windows. A new set of seven archaic and runic fonts is provided : AutoREALM, AutoREALM Blackletter, AutoREALM Cuniform, AutoREALM Futhark, AutoREALM Hieroglyphics, AutoREALM Mentelin, AutoREALM Phoenician. Curve-fitted text : text can be curved along a Bezier curve, be left-right-center justified. The classic Bold/Italic/Underline styles are provided, too.
• Decompose text, icons, and fractals into polygons and polylines
• Import and export of AutoREALM files, Bitmaps, JPEGs, Windows Metafiles and Enhanced Metafiles with a Preview Browsing option
• Measurement ruler and measurement string
• Comprehensive Help Files
• Printing: you have the choice to print the region you want with these features : Entire Map, Current View, View, Selected Region. Tiling of large maps onto multiple pages for easier printing : you can tile your printout and preview accurately the regions you will be printing. [See the map example "Praras.AuR" to understand.]
• Intuitive interface conforming to Windows standard functions as Manipulating objects, stretching them, moving them, selecting them.
• Saves maps into native AUR formats : support of other well-known file formats BMP, JPG, EMF : Enhanced Windows Metafile, WMF : Windows Metafile
• Full BMP and JPG file support: Bitmaps can be saved from 320*200 resolutions to 1600*1200 and more. A part of the map can be selected for saving. Image smoothing and progressive encoding options are provided as well as Image Quality (0 to 100%) for JPG.
• Support of language DLLs: French, German and Japanese translations are available
• Toolbars with many Menu Icons
• Symbol library: Dozens of dungeon, campaign, and wilderness icons. Possibility to add and design your own symbols. Scrollbar feature for easy browsing.
• Hyperlink/Popup files: just drag and drop files from the Windows Explorer into a map. These will be linked to your map to form an interactive map.
• Scrollbars feature for easy browsing under the main window
• Anti-aliasing (coming!)

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Many toolbars available

[ They are "docking-style" and now, this feature is more stable since ToolBar2000 has been implemented into the source code. Anyway, if you mix-up the bars, go to Toolbar | Restore Default Toolbars in the software.]

• Color: Main Color button, Fill Color button, Fill Pattern button, Text Outline Color button, Background Color button, Grid Color button
• Drawing : Arc Tool, Curve tool, Freehand tool, Line tool, Polyline tool, Polycurve tool
• Fractal Drawing: equivalents of each of the main objects (Fractal Freehand tool, Fractal Line tool, Fractal Polyline tool, Fractal Curve tool, and Fractal Polycurve tool).
• Fractal Settings: Roughness slider bar and Seed box field
• Line Style: Transform | Reverse Line Direction
• Editing: Send to Back tool, Send to Front tool, Send Backward tool, Send Forward tool, Paste tool, Copy tool, Cut tool, Erase tool, Scalpel, Glue tool
• General: Selection tool, Zoom tool, Pan tool, Ruler tool, String tool, Save tool, Repaint tool, Undo tool, Redo tool
• Graph Paper generation: Square, Rotated Hex, Hex, Triangle, Diamond, Half-Diamond grids
• Icons placement: Single tool, Square Array tool, Diamond Array tool, Random tool
• Icon Settings: Size bar and Spread bar
• Icon Pages : browse the symbol library
• Overlay bar controls: Active Overlay box field, Overlay List box field
• Pushpins
• Settings: Overlay Display tool, Gravity Snap tool, Display Grid tool, Snap To Grid tool
• Shape: Rectangle/Square, Ellipse/Circle tool, Polygon tool, Rosette tool, Text tool, Curved Text tool, Group tool, Ungroup tool, Decompose tool, Hyperlink/popup tool (possibility to link maps between them or to go elsewhere on your hard drive)
• Text (popup): Left/Right/Center, Bold/Underlined/Italic features
• Transform: Align tool, Flip tool, Skew tool, Rotate tool, Scale tool, Rotate 90° tool, Rotate 45° tool

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Translation packs available

• German
• French
• Japanese

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Minimum System Requirements

• Processor required: 90MHz Pentium or faster with 16 MB RAM
• Hard Disk Space: less than 8 MB
• Display Size: 800 x 600 or greater (1024 x 768 prefered)
• Display Color Depth: 16 bits (HiColor) or more (32 bits: TrueColor prefered)
• Operating Systems :
  • Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
  • Runs under Wine on Linux systems
  • Could be compiled with Free Borland Kylix to make it possible to run under Linux

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