# Features – TANGENTA

> Every tool in TANGENTA: drawing, shaping, fills, effects, text, images, print, file formats and keyboard shortcuts.

URL: https://tangenta.ch/en/features.html

Features

# Every tool.  One program.

From the first line to the printed sheet: everything TANGENTA can do, at a glance.

### Draw

- Rectangle, ellipse, pie and arc
- Polygon, star and complex star
- Spiral and graph paper
- Freehand, 2-point line, Bézier, pen and B-spline
- 3-point rectangle, ellipse and curve
- Artistic media and calligraphy
- Perfect shapes: basic, arrow, flowchart, banner and star shapes
- Tables with merged cells
- Dimensions and angular dimensions
- Connectors that follow their objects

### Shape

- Shape tool with every node type
- Knife, eraser and crop
- Weld, intersect, trim
- Front minus back, back minus front
- Combine and break apart
- Convert outline to object
- Join curves
- Shaping docker with preview

### Fill and outline

- Uniform fill with colour picker
- Linear, radial and conical gradients
- Pattern and texture fills
- Mesh fill
- Interactive fill right on the object
- Outline pen with line styles and arrowheads
- Eyedropper and copy attributes

### Effects

- Blend along a path
- Contour inside and outside
- Extrude
- Envelope with presets
- Perspective
- Drop shadow and transparency
- Lens with fish eye and other types
- Bevel and blur
- SuperClip: place content inside a frame

### Text

- Artistic and paragraph text
- Linked text frames with overflow
- Text on path
- Bullets and drop caps
- Tabs and paragraph formatting
- Hyphenation
- Spell checking and QuickCorrect
- Font substitution on PDF import

### Images

- Import up to camera RAW (NEF, CR2, CR3, ARW, DNG …)
- Tone curve, brightness, contrast, colour balance
- Hue, saturation and filters
- Crop and mask
- SuperTrace: turn bitmaps into vectors
- Image search across eight libraries

### Document

- Multiple pages with a master page
- Layers and Object Manager
- Symbols and clones
- Guidelines, dynamic guides, grid
- Snapping to nodes, centres, edges and the page
- Unlimited undo
- Its own open file format (.vek)

### Print

- Print preview
- Imposition: booklet, signature, n-up, step-and-repeat
- Crop and fold marks, bleed
- Labels
- PDF with presets and preflight

### Automate

- JavaScript scripts with an editor
- Its own scripting API (tg)
- AI assistant with 18 tools
- Image search and web search for the AI

**01** / Workspace

## Dockers where you need them.

Object Manager, Object Properties, Shaping, Transformations, Symbols, Lens, Envelope, Scripts and AI dock on the right, as tabs or stacked. The property bar at the top always shows the fields for the selected object.

- Object Manager with pages, layers and master page
- Property bar for every tool and object type
- Status bar with the fill and outline of the selection
- Colour palette on the right edge

![TANGENTA with Object Manager and Object Properties, the poster title selected](https://tangenta.ch/img/06-andockfenster.png)

**02** / Settings

## Every setting where you expect it.

The Options dialog (Ctrl+J) arranges Workspace, Document and Global in a tree, the way you are used to: snapping, guidelines, tools, saving, text, spelling, image search, AI and much more.

![Options dialog showing the snapping page](https://tangenta.ch/img/08-optionen.png)

**03** / File formats

## In and out.

### Import

SVG · PDF · EPS · PS · DXF · PNG · JPEG · TIFF · WebP · BMP · GIF · NEF · CR2 · CR3 · ARW · DNG

### Export

PDF · SVG · EPS · DXF · PNG · JPEG · TIFF · WebP · PSD · HTML

PDF, SVG and EPS are imported as editable curves and text. For EPS and PS, TANGENTA uses Ghostscript.

**04** / Shortcuts

## The shortcuts you know.

A selection. Every shortcut is shown next to its command in the menus.

| Shortcut | Command |
|---|---|
| F5 | Freehand |
| F6 | Rectangle |
| F7 | Ellipse |
| F8 | Text |
| F10 | Shape |
| Y | Polygon |
| A | Spiral |
| I | Artistic media |
| X | Eraser |
| G | Interactive fill |
| M | Mesh fill |
| F11 | Gradient |
| F12 | Outline pen |
| Ctrl+G / Ctrl+U | Group / ungroup |
| Ctrl+L | Combine |
| Ctrl+Q | Convert to curves |
| Ctrl+D | Duplicate |
| L R T B E C P | Align: left, right, top, bottom, centre, page centre |
| Ctrl+PgUp / Ctrl+PgDn | Forward one / back one |
| Ctrl+I / Ctrl+E | Import / export |
| Alt+Enter | Object properties |
| F9 | Full-screen preview |
| Ctrl+J | Options |
| Ctrl+Alt+K | AI assistant |

## Start drawing.

Free of charge, for Windows and Linux, with AI.

[Download](https://tangenta.ch/en/download.html) [View on GitHub](https://github.com/roli8200/tangenta)