Changes Since Reference Manual Was Printed

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Changes Since the Reference Manual Was Printed

Depending on your printing of the Reference Manual, it may not describe the features listed below; the features may only be described in this on-line help.

For a more detailed list of software changes since the original release of The Geometer's Sketchpad Version 4, see Changes Since Release 4.00.

Tables

You can accumulate measurements you've made in a sketch into a table. Create a table by selecting one or more measurements and choosing Tabulate from the Graph menu. You can collect measurements in a table manually or automatically as the measurement changes. Tables of changing values are also created for you automatically when you create an iteration in which one or more values change.

The data in tables can be plotted.

Advanced Text Operations

The Merge Text command lets you merge several objects containing text (labeled objects, measurements, or captions) into a single composite caption, as described in the printed manual. Recent additions for advanced users allow you to attach a measurement or caption to a point, so that its position is determined by a geometric construction; and to create merged captions with special mathematical formatting (such as fractions, overbars, and so forth).

You can resize a caption, and its text will reflow to fit the new size.

You can relabel an entire group of objects at once. See the Label command for details.

You can align a group of selected text objects.

Graphics

You can display sketches using high-quality anti-aliased graphics if your computer supports this feature. See System Preferences for details.

On a Windows computer, you can save sketches in graphics format, using either Windows metafile (.wmf) or Enhanced metafile (.emf) format. See Metafile Export for details.

Macintosh

Sketchpad now runs natively under Mac OS X as well as on older Mac operating systems. (Classic mode is no longer required for Sketchpad under OS X.)