Cooperation with ordinary drawing applications
SKIT can be used with ordinary drawing applications. Details explaining how SKIT interfaces with a drawing application are provided below.
SKIT can be used together with a wide range of drawing applications
SKIT was developed to interface with many different drawing applications (ranging widely from painting to drafting applications). When SKIT is interfaced with a drawing application, it behaves like one of the application’s built-in functions. Adopting SKIT is like upgrading from an ordinary drawing application to a hand-drawing application.
To interface SKIT with a drawing application, a SKIT interface module is needed. Specific interface modules must to be developed for each drawing application. Currently, sample modules are available for use with Adobe® Illustrator® and with e-frontier Shade.
Developing SKIT interface modules is easy
We plan to release a SKIT interface module development kit for software developers in the near future. This kit will enable developers to freely create SKIT interface modules that will allow hand-drawing input interfaces to be used with virtually any graphics application.
Direct control
SKIT offers direct control.
When a user inputs hand-drawn curves using SKIT, linked geometric figures are reproduced in SKIT as if they were traced. Similarly, when the user finishes input of hand-drawn curves, the geometric curves recognized by SKIT are passed to the linked drawing application as if they were carbon copied.
This is not just a matter of visual approximation. Since SKIT uses the coordinate values in the same graphics space as the linked drawing application, there is no mismatch between the coordinate values of the drawing application and those of SKIT. Furthermore, because it uses the same grid as the linked drawing application, SKIT can “snap to” the grid of the linked drawing application with real-number precision.