Introduction

  The DrasticPreview Skin Editor is used to combine bmp or jpg files with position information to create or modify a skin file (*.dz).  The Skin Editor is installed with DrasticPreview and is available from the Start menu.  Creating a new skin requires three steps:

1. Create at least the Main, Mask and Selected bit maps (Tracking and Disabled are optional, but recommended) along with the Normal and Mouse Down Slider bit maps.
2. Open DrasticPreview Skin Editor, create a new skin and load your bit maps.
3. Define the areas for buttons, slider, text displays and select text fonts and a text color.

The purpose of the Skin Editor is to make steps two and three as easy as possible. 

  To create the bit map images for your new skin, study the sample skins from http://www.drasticpreview.com or load existing skins into the Skin Editor.  Once you have a feel for the way DrasticPreview skins work, use your favorite graphic tools to create the required images.  Please save them as 24 bit BMP files for import into the Skin Editor.  Once you have these files (or sample bit maps from the web site) you can use the information in the rest of this documentation.

Below is a view of the Main DrasticPreview Skin Editor Interface.