Chitrangan FAQs

1. What is Chitrangan?
Chitrangan is windows based Indian language drawing tool. It’s a multilingual package.
2. How to put text in Chitrangan?
In the toolbox, click on A to enter text. Drag the mouse pointer to select size of text box and now you can enter text in this text box. After finishing click outside the textbox.
3. How to create random shape?
In the toolbox, click on Pencil to create the random shape. Then by dragging the mouse you can generate random shape.
4. What is use of Change Color option from Image menu?
Change color will randomly change fill color or background color of shapes.
5. Can we change pen width of the shapes?
Yes. By selecting the appropriate value of pen from Pen width section on Toolbar we can change the pen width of the shape.
6. If I want to see the current job in a full screen what to do?
For that press Full Screen from View menu or Ctrl + F.
7. Is there any facility for selecting the particular region from the file?
Yes. For that click on the button for Select region from toolbar menu. And then drag the mouse for selecting the region you want.
8. What kinds of facilities are provided for standard shapes like Ellipse, rectangle etc. ?
After inserting the standard shape like ellipse, rectangle etc. on right click we can bring that shape front/back and format that shape. In formatting we can change height, width, pen color, brush color etc.
9. How to change the canvas size?
To change canvas size click on Zoom option from View Menu. You can then select canvas size according to requirement clicking on the canvas.
10. If I want to change the font of the text what to do?
To change the font click on Edit font from Edit menu or press Ctrl + D. The selected font will apply. This will be enabled only when textbox is created.
11. What different type of files can be opened in Chitrangan?
In Chitrangan we can open .cng, .jpeg, .bmp files.
12. I want to edit the job / file opened. What to do for that?
If you want to edit the opened job/file then save it in .cng format and then edit it.
13. I want to change the order of the overlapping text / graphics. How to do that?
You can arrange the order of overlapping text and / or graphics frames using the send to front and / or Send to back commands by right clicking on the object..
14. How to copy colors from one area or object to another?
Click on Pick color button in the toolbox. Click the object whose color you want to copy. In the
toolbox, click on Fill with color button. Then click the object or area where you want this new
color. The color will be copied