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This page is a place for ArtWorks-related files and resources, most notably new sprites.

Third-party software

Improved FontDirPro ArtWorks document scanning extension

FontDirPro scans ArtWorks documents and automatically switches on the fonts that are used in the file. It only finds fonts used in text line objects though. The following update enables FontDirPro to find fonts used in text areas, too.

archive icon ArtWorks extension 1.01 (17-Jan-05) Improved ArtWorks document scanning extension for FontDirPro. Tested with FontDirPro 3.10. May be suitable for earlier versions of FontDirPro, too. Replaces the original version of the ArtWorks document scanning utility dated 20-Jun-03. Released 13-Nov-09.

New sprites (ArtWorks 2.22 and below)

There are several sets of newly designed tool sprites for ArtWorks. In order to install one of them, download the corresponding sprites archive and download the MrgAWSpr utility that merges the sprites into the individual modules' Sprites files for you. Please make sure that you read the installation documentation in the archives.

Please note that these sprites and more importantly the merging utility are not suitable for ArtWorks 2.30. See the ArtWorks 2.30 download section for a new, even more comprehensive theme by Rogier Hartgring.

New tool sprites by Rogier Hartgring

Rogier Hartgring has designed two full sets of new tool sprites for ArtWorks with two different designs to choose from:


new tool sprites

New tool sprites by Rogier Hartgring (square design)

sprite file icon HGSprites 1.00b New tool sprites by Rogier Hartgring (square design)
for ArtWorks 1.
New version for ArtWorks 2:
sprite file icon HGSprites 2.00 New tool sprites by Rogier Hartgring (square design)
for ArtWorks 2.0 to 2.22.

new tool sprites

New tool sprites by Rogier Hartgring (round design)

sprite file icon HGSpritesR 1.00 New tool sprites by Rogier Hartgring (round design)
for ArtWorks 1.
New version for ArtWorks 2:
sprite file icon HGSpritesR 2.00 New tool sprites by Rogier Hartgring (round design)
for ArtWorks 2.0 to 2.22.

By the way: You need not have bought all modules (or any at all) in order to use the new sprites - the installer still works even if some of the available modules are not present.

New tool sprites by David Rutten

David Rutten has designed some replacement tool sprites. Unfortunately, there are no replacement sprites for most of the MW Software add-on tools, only for Polygon, PathUtils, Hatch, Translate and QuickCopy. Besides, there are new tool sprites for Arranger, Precision and the Eesox Pressure tool.

new tool sprites

New tool sprites by David Rutten

sprite file icon DRSprites 1.00 New tool sprites by David Rutten.


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Utilities (ArtWorks 2.22 and below)

Sprite merging utility

Whenever you want to update some sprites in ArtWorks (2) modules, you are advised not to edit the Sprites files of modules directly because you are likely to overwrite your changes when installing new versions of the modules, which may come with updated Sprites files.

The solution is to use the sprite merging utility MrgAWSpr (or MrgAW2Spr for ArtWorks 2). Simply place your updated sprites into !ArtWorks.User.<module>.Sprites instead of !ArtWorks.Auto.<module>.Sprites and let the sprite merger merge the updated sprites into the module's Sprites file. Then, after installing a new version of a module, simply run MrgAWSpr again. You only need to put the sprites you want to update in the Sprites file in User, not those which have not changed.

The new tool sprites on this page are distributed in the correct format to be installed by MrgAWSpr.

The ArtWorks Updater utility (version 2.07) for ArtWorks 1.x contains the same sprite merging code as MrgAWSpr, so there is no need to run MrgAWSpr if you run the Updater to install new modules.

MrgAWSpr icon MrgAWSpr 1.01 Utility to merge sprites from the User to the Auto hierarchy
(for ArtWorks 1, 26-bit only).
New version for ArtWorks 2.0 to 2.22:
MrgAW2Spr icon MrgAW2Spr 2.00 Utility to merge sprites from the User to the Auto hierarchy
(for ArtWorks 2.0 to 2.22, not for use with ArtWorks 2.30 or above, 32-bit compatible, requires 32-bit SharedCLib).

ArtWorks Rendering Switcher

The AWSwitch utility allows you to switch between 16, 64 and 128 levels of anti-aliasing.


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Last modified: 14-Nov-09