Table of Contents

1 Introduction

About the author

History of Kontour

About the handbook

2 Installation

How to obtain Kontour

System Requirements

Compilation and Installation

Installation of binary packages

rpm

deb

3 Usage

Some general remarks

Drawing 2D-Primitives

Freehand tool

Polyline tool

Bezier curve tool

Rectangle tool

Regular polygon tool

Ellipse tool

Text tool

Transformation of 2D-Primitives

Rotation

Scaling

Shifting

Modifying an object

Positioning objects

Grid

Helplines

Aligning objects

Aligning text along a path

Grouping of Objects:

The Layer Concept

What are layers?

Working with layers

Working with Files

Saving Files

Loading Files

Importing and Exporting Files

Printing Files

Undo / Redo

Zoom tool

Handling colors

Changing the standard parameters

Global parameters

Default drawing parameters

4 Frequently Asked Questions

5 Appendix

Key bindings

TO DO

Handbook

6 Copyright