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neoTextil 7.0

StepAndRepeat 1.0

Module for Adobe Photoshop™

User Manual

September 2013

Inèdit Software S.L.

INDEX

1. What is StepAndRepeat?

2. Technical Requirements

3. Opening StepAndRepeat

4. Rapport Options

5. Repetition Options

6. Actions

neoStepAndRepeat 1.0 User Manual

1. What is StepAndRepeat?

StepandRepeat is the new neoTextil 7 software to create the rapport and

the repetitions of your designs, both for Mac and Windows systems (32 and

64bits). The options include selecting type of Rapport -vertical or

horizontal-, selecting the Drop, and setting the Offset choosing from various

measuring units. All the actions are performed while having a repeated view

of the design.

A preview panel next to the design shows instantly any changes made.

2. Technical Requirements

Macintosh:PowerPC G5 or multicore Intel processor.

Mac OS X v16.6.8 or higher.

4GB minimum RAM memory (16GB recommended).

Adobe Photoshop CS 5.0, CS 5.5, CS 6.0 and CC (32 or 64bits).

Windows:Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon®, multicore Intel processor or

equivalent.

Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3, Windows 7 with Service Pack

1 or Windows 8.

4GB minimum RAM memory (16GB recommended).

Adobe Photoshop CS 5.0, CS 5.5, CS 6.0 and CC (32 or 64bits).


3. Opening StepAndRepeat 1.0

To work with StepAndRepeat you need a dongle that Inèdit Software must

provide you. Once you install the dongle on a USB port you can start the

program.

Open a design with any of the Adobe Photoshop versions compatible with

the module.

From the Window menu in Photoshop, go to Extensions and start

neoStepAndRepeat. The module’s panel will open.


If you download the program but do not have the dongle, you will access

the Demo mode:

In Demo, you can just see what the panel looks like. If you try to do any

action or set any value a small window wil pop-up, indicating that it is not

possible:


The working options are on the left column of the panel:

The panel can be placed next to the document -dragging it to Photoshop’s

work-frame- in order to see equally big images:


4. Rapport Options

This section in the working column shows the rapport Drop and Mode

(Horizontal and Vertical).


The field Drop sets the offset between repeats, and allows any fraction such

as 1/1, 1/2, 2/3, etc. These values can be also indicated in pixels (px),

points (pt), inches (in), meters (m), centimeters (cm) , milimiters (mm) or

repetitions (rp).

We can see on the sample design of this manual that it doesn’t match

vertically, so we will have to set new values for the Vertical drop.


Entering a 1/2 drop in vertical, we can see that the image rapports

properly:

The Offset can be set manually in two different ways: graphically or

entering position values.

• Proceeding graphically, this is done by moving the red square within

the panel’s design to any new desired position. The new offset will be

reflected numerically:


And the document’s image will automatically show the changed offset

from the panel:


The rule’s document also shows the position of the new offset.

If we wish to change the measuring units in Photoshop’s rule, proceed to

open the Window’s menu and click on Information:


• Entering the Offset values (px, mm, cm, pt, etc.) in the horizontal

and vertical fields, we modify them manually. When these fields are

entered, the above options Drop and Mode become inactive.

Predetermined Drops

StepandRepeat offers four stardard Drop modes, applicable with the

following buttons:

When we apply the predetermined drops, the upper buttons Drop and Mode

will become inactive. To go back to the initial position (values 0,0), click on

the left button -complete image-.


5. Repetition Options

In the following editing fields can be set the Repetition parameters.

Again, the horizontal and vertical points of origin can be introduced (px, cm,

mm, rp, pt).

By default, the program opens the panel showing three repetitions of the

design, three in each direction. This value can be changed manually in the

Size fields.

Any new number of repetitions will be kept and taken by default when

saving the document.


6. Actions

The action buttons are at the bottom of the working column: Syncronize,

Set origin and Repetitions:

The first button on the left Syncronizes the changes done in the panel with

the document.

The middle button Sets the Origin establised in the panel as the origin of

the document.

The right button generates a new document with Repetitions, which is

opened from the upper rule bar in Photoshop.


Important Note: with CS5 and 5.5 Photoshop versions, the automatic preview

update is not carried out when a document is opened, selected or closed. For such

versions it is necessary to refresh the pages manually with the Syncronization

button.


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