Add New Project on the Home tab is where every new chart begins. Choose where your chart is coming from and Markup R-XP guides you through the rest.
It is part of the Home tab. See The Dashboard for the full tour.
The Three Ways In
Pick Your Source |
 - Document: load a chart PDF, images, or a mix of both from your device.
- Gallery: build a chart from photos or images you already have.
- Camera: photograph a paper chart and stitch straight from it.
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Document |
| Documents and images: One picker for everything. Choose a chart PDF, pictures, or a mix of both in a single selection. |
| Mixing files: The PDF becomes the base of the project, and any pictures picked with it are queued up, each walking through the corner adjust step in turn. Pick only pictures and the first one starts the project, with the rest queued behind it. |
| More than one PDF: Only one PDF can start a project, so any extra PDFs are skipped with a reminder. You can add their pages to the project afterwards. Full guide. |
| Stitch-alongs: For charts released a few pages at a time, add each new page to the same project as it arrives. Full guide. |
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Gallery |
| From your photos: Choose one or more pictures of a chart. The first picture creates the project and the rest queue up behind it, each turned into a page you can mark up just like a PDF. |
| Straightening things up: Every picture goes through a corner adjust step, so you can drag the corners until the grid sits square before detection runs. Full guide. |
| One photo, several pages: A single large photo can also be split into separate chart pages. Full guide. |
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Camera |
| Straight from the page: Photograph a chart in a book or magazine and stitch from it, no scanner needed. The camera takes a single photo, which goes through the same corner adjust step as a gallery picture. Full guide. |
| Best results: Lay the chart flat in good light and fill the frame with the page. You can add more photos to the project afterwards. |
Did you know?
- Whichever source you pick, the same setup wizard runs afterwards, so you only have to learn it once.
- You can mix sources in one project. Start from a PDF and later add a photographed errata page to the same project.
- Working a stitch-along? Your marked progress is kept safe whenever a new page is added.
Keep Exploring
- Up a level: The Dashboard: a tour of the whole Dashboard and its five tabs.
- The Project Wizard: what happens after you pick your file, step by step, from finding the grid to setting up symbols.
- Arranging Pages: add more files to a project, reorder or remove pages, and save the result.
- Stitch-Alongs (SALs): run a project that grows as the designer releases new pages, without losing your progress.
