Press S to enter scratch drawing; the cursor is modified and you must click somewhere on the page to start drawing there. Before clicking, you can
Active-DVI recognizes the following keystrokes when scratch drawing on the page.
| ^G | quit | – | End of scratch drawing. |
| Esc | settings | – | Enter the scratch drawing settings mode. |
In the scratch drawing settings mode, the cursor is modified and you can set some charateristics of the scratch drawing facility.
When in the scratch drawing settings mode, the following keys have the following respective meanings:
| b | blue | – | Set the color of the font to blue. |
| c | cyan | – | Set the color of the font to cyan. |
| g | green | – | Set the color of the font to green. |
| k | black | – | Set the color of the font to black. |
| m | magenta | – | Set the color of the font to magenta. |
| r | red | – | Set the color of the font to red. |
| w | white | – | Set the color of the font to white. |
| y | yellow | – | Set the color of the font to yellow. |
| B | more blue | – | Increment the blue component of the current color. |
| G | more green | – | Increment the green component of the current color. |
| R | more red | – | Increment the red component of the current color. |
| + | positive increment | – | Set the color increment to positive. |
| − | negative increment | – | Set the color increment to negative. |
| > | increment | – | Increment by one the size of the line. |
| < | decrement | – | Decrement by one the size of the line. |
In the setting mode, pressing one of the following keys enter the (still experimental) figure drawing mode:
| V | vertical line | – | Draw a vertical line. |
| H | horizontal line | – | Draw a horizontal line. |
| S | segment | – | Draw a segment. |
| C | circle | – | Draw a circle. |
| p | point | – | Draw a point. |
| P | polygone | – | Draw a polygone. |
| e | endpoly | – | Close the polygone that is beeing drawn. |
| F | free hand | – | Draw a line following the pointer. |
| ’ ’ | cancel | – | Cancel the figure setting. |