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1. Figure 228 Configuring dimension lines You can configure all the properties you see in this window to suit your own needs The left section includes the basic settings for dimension lines and dimension guide lines these indicate where on the object the dimension is referenced e Line distance the distance of the dimension arrow from the object edge e Guide overhang the distance the guide line extends past the arrow e Guide distance the distance of the guide line from the object edge You can individually set the line lengths of the right and left guide lines and use positive or negative values to have the line above or below the reference point The direction of the line with positive or negative distances depends on the setting of the Measure below object option box checked or not but this is easy to check by referring to the example dimension line in the bottom window of the dialog For this current exercise click the box and activate this option 180 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide In the right section you can change the settings for the Legend the text of the dimension line You can use the Text position choices to change the location of the text but only if one or both of the AutoVertical and AutoHorizontal checkboxes are unchecked Use the various options on the Text and Alignment tabs to further change the text format Calculation of dimensions always takes into account the scale an
2. _ OpenOffice org 3 OpenOffice org 3 Draw Guide Drawing Vector Graphics in OpenOffice org Copyright This document is Copyright 2005 2011 by its contributors as listed below You may distribute it and or modify it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License http www gnu org licenses gpl html version 3 or later or the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons org licenses by 3 0 version 3 0 or later All trademarks in this guide belong to their legitimate owners Contributors Agnes Belzunce Daniel Carrera Martin Fox Thomas Hackert Regina Henschel Peter Hillier Brook Jared Kobos Hazel Russman Gary Schnabl Bernd Schukat Wolfgang Uhlig Jean Hollis Weber Claire Wood Linda Worthington Feedback Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to odfauthors discuss lists odfauthors org Acknowledgments Several chapters in this book are based on an original French document written for OpenOffice org 1 x by Michel Pinquier translated into English by Alex Thurgood and previous content revised by Jim Taylor The chapters were revised for OOo 2 0 by Linda Daniel Jean and Agnes and later translated into German by Bernd Regina and Wolfgang The German revisions were then translated into English and revised for OOo 3 3 by Martin Fox Publication date and software version Published 27 August 2011 Based on OpenOffice 3 3 You can download o D FAY th 0 S an editable
3. Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points 39 Selections for rotating objects are indicated by small red circles and a symbol representing the center of rotation To choose jp these selections click on the Effects drop down button from the Drawing toolbar and after that on the object Changing the selection mode To go from one mode to another you can do one of the following e Choose the Points button 2 from the Drawing toolbar to switch from simple selection mode to Points mode You can also use the keyboard shortcut F8 Points See Editing object points on page 48 for details on using Points mode e Choose the Effects drop down button from the Drawing Toolbar to activate the Rotation mode for a selected object To exit Rotation mode click k e Ifyou often work in Rotation mode you can choose the Rotation Mode after on the Selection icon Clicking Object button from the Options bar and cycle through normal and rotation modes just by clicking on the object This can be more convenient than repeatedly clicking the selected object then clicking the Rotate button from the Drawing toolbar Selecting objects Direct selection The easiest way to select an object is to click directly on it For objects that are not filled click on the object s outline to select it One click selects a second click deselects To select or deselect more than one object hold the shift button down while clicki
4. The text anchoring always relates to the entire block even when single lines are set differently to the other text through manual formatting Third line Anchor lower right If you checked the option Full width the text block is always centered horizontally The area of the text block is maximized here it extends either to the edge of the figure or object frame or when not that wide to the width that is necessary to fit the longest line The difference becomes clear if you position the text on the left but you set single lines through hand formatting to be aligned on the right Anchor lower right In the examples below the first line of text was shortened to First line with Spacings were set to 0 and text anchor to middle left Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 185 Shapes Classical drawing objects Without option Full width With option Full width Fitting text in frames Here you find that shapes and classic Draw objects behave completely differently For shapes the options on the right are active Text Fit width to text ira wrap text in shape L Fit height to text C Resize shape to fit text _ Fit to frame L_ Adjust to contour Figure 233 Options active for shapes These have the following effects Word wrap text in shape No automatic hyphenation is available and you cannot insert a fixed hyphen If the text does
5. To show or hide the comment markers choose View gt Comments Select Tools gt Options gt User Data to configure the name you want to appear in the Author field of the comment or to change it If more than one person edits the document each author is automatically allocated a different background color Connecting and breaking lines It is possible in Draw to join separate line elements into one line Select a number of lines and choose Modify gt Connect The lines are converted to curves and adjacent end points are joined together The resulting shape is a polyline not a closed shape To add text to the polyline press F2 and type the text To make a closed shape from the polyline right click the polyline and choose Close Object You can add text and also change area properties and edit the object as with any polygon object Note that you can only use the Close Object command on connected lines freehand lines and unfilled curves If you select a shape and choose Modify gt Break this does not reverse the Connect process but simply converts the polygon into a collection of individual lines Text added to the shape will be associated with one of the lines often the last one You cannot apply a fill to a closed shape made up of lines resulting from the Break command 202 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Index 3 3D bodies 112 creating by body rotation 112 creating by extrusion 112 extrusion 112 ready made objects
6. button on the Draw toolbar to open the Connectors toolbar If the type of Connectors x connector you want Mig Ply ly Ag hy is not shown drag By Oy Ky By E the toolbar to make it float then click on the arrow in the toolbar s title bar In the list that appears click on Visible buttons to opena menu from which you can activate additional types of connector Figure 206 Visible Buttons Customize Toolbar Dock Toolbar Dock All Toolbars Lock Toolbar Position Close Toolbar onnector Connector Starts with Arrow Connector Ends with Arrow Connector with Arrows Connector Starts with Circle Connector Ends with Circle Connector with Circles Line Connector Line Connector Starts with Arrow Line Connector Ends with Arrow Line Connector with Arrows Line Connector Starts with Circle Line Connector Ends with Circle Line Connector with Circles Straight Connector Straight Connector starts with Arrow Straight Connector ends with Arrow Straight Connector with Arrows Straight Connector starts with Circle Straight Connector ends with Circle Straight Connector with Circles Curved Connector Curved Connector Starts with Arrow Curved Connector Ends with Arrow Curved Connector with Arrows Curved Connector Starts with Circle Curved Connector Ends with Circle Curved Connector with Circles Sf SOG Bere r Al H C A AA Figure 206 Activating additional connectors 164 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Con
7. choose Visible Buttons from the drop down menu Visible icons are indicated by an outline around the icon Click on icons to hide or show them on the toolbar _ fs Visible Buttons t amp Load URL Customize Toolbar New Dock Toolbar O New Booger From Template Dock All Toolbars Open m Lock Toolbar Position Save ao eeae Close Toolbar El Save As Documents E mail 24 Edit File Figure 6 Selection of visible toolbar icons The tools available in the various toolbars are explained in the following sections Standard toolbar The Standard toolbar is the same for all OpenOffice org components and is not described in detail here 2 82 Be vx 5 te aR Figure 7 Standard toolbar Drawing toolbar The Drawing toolbar is the most important toolbar in Draw It contains all the necessary functions for drawing various geometric and freehand shapes and for organizing them on the page It is described in detail in Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes Figure 8 Drawing toolbar Line and Filling toolbar The Line and Filling toolbar lets you modify the main properties of a drawing object the icons and pull down lists vary with the type of object selected For example to change the thickness of a line with the spinner hover the mouse over the spinner and click the up or down arrow to achieve the desired thickness Ets Ebor e o Figure 9 Line and Filling toolbar In the example above the available functions en
8. 1 bit dithered The impression of grayscale is produced by a raster In reality there are only two colors 1 bit threshold The threshold determines which pixels are black and which are white You cannot set it directly but you can influence which part of the image is set to black by varying color settings on the picture toolbar red green blue level brightness contrast and or gamma value to see what works best for your image You must export and save the modified image with File gt Export and then reopen it before you finally change the color depth 4 bit color palette With 4 bits a total of 16 colors can be produced The color steps are quite fine because the process does not use the 16 RGB basic colors but selects from the palette those that best match the colors in the image 4 bit grayscale palette 8 bit color palette With 8 bits a total of 256 colors can be produced The image at left is at first glance very difficult to distinguish from the original A big difference is that the picture file is only one third of the size of the 24 bit version 104 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide 8 bit grayscale palette F D E f 14 re it ay A i Conversion Convert to a contoured image Select the picture so you see the green handles From the context menu or from the Modify menu choose Convert gt to Contour This command creates from the original image
9. Default The graphic is displayed unaltered in color Grayscale The graphic is displayed in 256 shades of gray Black White The graphic is displayed in black and white Watermark The brightness and contrast of the graphic are reduced to the extent that the graphic can be used as a watermark background Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 95 Shadow Use the Color tool to adjust the values of the three RGB colors the brightness contrast and the Gamma value These adjustments do not affect the original picture but the values are stored in Draw as a separate formatting set You can select values from between 100 no color to 100 full intensity 0 represents the original value of the property The brightness can be adjusted between 100 totally black and 100 totally white The contrast can be adjusted between 100 minimum and 100 maximum The Gamma value affects the brightness of the middle color tones Values can range from 0 10 minimum to 10 maximum Hint Try adjusting this value if changing brightness contrast does not give you the result you want The degree of transparency of the picture can be adjusted between 0 opaque and 100 fully transparent Opens the Line dialog In this context line refers to the outline of the border See also Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes Opens the Area dialog Here you can edit color gradient hatching and fills of the back
10. Draw looks in the vicinity of the object for these special help elements to determine the final position of the object with the snap range setting you can determine the extent of this search area Exactly how large the snap area is depends on the current environment which particular snap functions are in use how the grid is configured and whether or not there may be collisions with other objects It is usually necessary to do a little experimenting to find what best suits your needs Snap to Snap objects snap lines and snap points Unlike grid points Snap lines and Snap points are created by the user Snap lines run horizontally or vertically and appear as dashed lines Snap points appear as small crosses again with dashed lines In Draw the names of the buttons in the Options toolbar are Display Note Guides and Snap to Guides when what is actually meant is Display Snap line and Snap to Snap line If you have activated this function you can position objects exactly Horizontal and vertical snap lines can be used together Snap lines are not active immediately after inserting them but are turned on or off using the Display Guides HI icon or with the View menu If the snap line is no longer needed you can hide it or subsequently display it again with the HI icon or by using the View menu Figure 177 Objects connected to snap lines left or to a snap point right Note that the snap point functions as if it were the in
11. Drawing Basic Shapes Activate the icon on the Options toolbar and then double click the box to enter text into it Alternatively select the box and press F2 You should then see a blinking cursor in the box and the Text Formatting toolbar should be visible Set the text formatting and type the text Depending on the length and format of the text you may need to adjust the size of the box and the spacing to neighboring boxes or else change the formatting of the text to fit the box Adjustments can be made initially with the mouse and then fine tuned with the Position and Size dialog Now set up the fill colors and save the drawing The connections between the boxes are not drawn with ordinary lines but with Draw s connectors How to draw these connectors and add text to them is described in Glue points and connectors starting on page 164 Chapter 9 Organization Charts Flow Diagrams and More 161 You can use dynamic text frames instead of boxes These have the advantage of automatic line breaks Figure 203 shows the sequence of text input into a frame adding borders and setting the background color The Line and Filling toolbar may not be visible until you have set a line type for the frame Set the line type using Format gt Line or right clicking the text frame and selecting Line 8 B 7 UM E o 0ccm_ A Golan 2 X 2 4 8 10 RH 6l 8 10 12 14 16 18 po 22 AAAEAALLALLAALAAAAAAAA ALAA AALARA Aiia Oo o i E
12. Gl iar Figure 168 Zoom level on Status Bar You can adjust the zoom value by using the slider right click on the zoom percent to select from a menu of preset values or double click to open the Zoom amp View Layout dialog View layout Optime Automatic Fit width and height Single page CO Fit width Columns E C 100 Book mode O warble Figure 169 Zoom amp View Layout You can enter a zoom factor in the Variable field select 100 or use one of the three other choices The three options on the right hand side of the dialog are not available in Draw they are active only for text documents e Optimal The drawing or selected object not the page is enlarged so that it just fits in the Draw page area e Fit width and height The drawing page edges are set to show the entire page within the Draw page area This is the same effect as choosing Entire Page from the right click menu on the status bar e Fit width The right and left page edges are set to the vertical edges of the Draw page area Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks 139 The exact effect of choosing one of these options depends on whether you have the Page pane switched on or off Figure 170 Zoom values Fit width and height Fit width and Optimal The Zoom toolbar The Zoom toolbar provides additional zoom options On the Standard toolbar View gt Toolbars gt Standard click on the downwards arrow of the Zoom button You
13. The behavior is the M same for classic M M Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 187 If you anchor the text above below right or left a positive spacing value positions the text in such a way that it sits close to the outside of the object frame at the anchoring point Anchoring in the middle does not result in this movement It is easier to add text to a straight line if the line is created as a very thin rectangle Choose an anchor point in the middle of the rectangle and then determine the exact position of the text by setting the spacing accordingly Text added to open line types such as B zier curves curves and freehand lines Polylines polygon and polygon 45 and Arcs is also positioned in relation to the enclosing object frame If you want to see the extent of this frame just click on the object To add text along one of these lines you can use the Fontwork tool described on page 191 Text added as described above is rotated when the object is rotated The property settings particularly those dealing with spacing relative to the frame relate only to Situations where the object is not rotated Text frames and callouts To test the range of possible settings use a text frame or a callout with rounded corners For text frames as for rectangles you can set the rounding in the Position and Size dialog Slant amp Corner radius or in Points mode The latter makes sense only if you have a v
14. To make the HSB model a little clearer some additional comments are necessary To better understand the working of the HSB model move the frame from left to right and top to bottom You will see that the Hue and Saturation values swing between their maximum and minimum hue by horizontal movement and saturation by vertical go level varies with movement but the brightness remains the same see rightness setting figure at left This latter can only be adjusted by as rii he 16 un entering a value into the number field Method 3 The left color window is divided like a chess board into 8 x 8 individual fields each with a different color Most important are the colors in each of the corner fields The color red changes stepwise to green in the first row and stepwise to yellow in the first column The color green in the last column changes stepwise to blue This window thus contains a stepwise change between each of the four main colors in the corner points If you hover the mouse over a square the RGB value is shown as a tooltip For example the yellow corner field lower left has RGB values of 255 255 and O full red full green and no blue Click on this yellow field A frame appears If you click the gt arrow under the color windows the selected color is assigned Cyan o E 2 Magenta 0 Red 255 4 Hue 60 Yellow 100 Green 255 Saturation 100 Key 0 Blue 0 B
15. When you hover the mouse over a curve point the mouse cursor changes to It over a control point it changes to Rad In point mode the toolbar Edit Points should appear If not turn it on from View gt Toolbars gt Edit Points You can switch on the option All control points in B zier editor under Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice orgDraw gt View The default is to see the control points and guide lines only when a point is marked by clicking on it By holding the Shift key down as you mark you can select and mark several points at the same time A marked point is shown a little darker Drawing a succession of Bezier curves Several lines or B zier curves can be linked together The single parts are referred to as segments Technically such a succession of B zier curves and lines is known as a path Begin the drawing as with a simple B zier curve At the end position of the first segment end not with a double click but with one of the following e Click on the end point of the first segment but do not keep the mouse button pressed In this way you produce a curve point which is a control point for both segments This control point lies however on an actual curve point and so does not influence the direction of the following curve segment Move the mouse to the end position of the second segment This segment appears to be a straight line but is in fact a B zier curve Either double click to finish the curve or repeat the
16. adding text 168 adjusting text 169 definition 164 drawing 165 Connectors toolbar 164 context menu 56 contoured image 105 contrast 96 controls layer 41 convert to bitmap 109 to contoured image 105 to polygon 105 convert polygon to curve 200 convert straight line to B zier curve 199 convert to polygon 200 corner points 198 cropping 97 cross fading 158 curve toolbar 196 curved connectors 165 Index 203 curved text 170 curves 49 closing 199 combining closed curves 201 connecting 201 converting to 199 customizing toolbars 17 D delete points 52 delete unused backgrounds 153 Dimension Line style 180 dimension lines editing 182 placing 182 dimensioning 180 181 display grid 141 distance camera parameter 125 distorting an image 74 distributing space between objects 86 dithering 104 double sided illumination 123 Double Sided tool 121 dragging and dropping 91 drawing arcs 31 arrows 27 banners 35 block arrows 34 callouts 35 circles 29 connectors 32 curves 31 ellipses 29 flowcharts 35 miscellaneous shapes 34 polygons 31 rectangles 28 Squares 28 Stars 35 Straight lines 26 symbols 34 drawing to scale 146 Drawing toolbar 12 duplicate 157 160 dynamic gradients 76 dynamic size modification 43 E e mailing documents 23 Edit Points toolbar 50 editing objects in a group 80 effects 54 72 157 effects menu 113 embedding graphics 90 exchange background page 153 exporting as aras
17. can also permanently display the toolbar by clicking on View gt Toolbars gt Zoom Zoom x ZA WPBHRERRAA Figure 171 Zoom Toolbar E Zoom in Enlarges the monitor picture First click on the button then on the object Alternatively drag to create a zoom window E Zoom out Makes the monitor picture smaller Just click on the button ai Reverts objects to their original size a Changes display to the previous and next zoom factors If these buttons are not visible turn them on by clicking on the small black arrow on the title bar of the Zoom toolbar then on Visible Buttons and finally on either of these two buttons Shows the entire page Zooms to page width Resizes the display to include all objects on the slide Zooms the selected object to Optimal Allows the whole drawing to be moved inside the Draw window using the mouse SB bh ee Positioning objects with snap functions In Draw objects can be accurately and consistently positioned using grid points Special snap points and lines object frames individual points on objects or page edges This function is known as Snap To use the snap function easily work with the highest practical zoom value You can use two different snap functions at the same time for example snapping to a guide 140 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide line and to the page edge It is best however to activate only those functions that you
18. drag a red corner handle point of the selection with the mouse The mouse cursor takes the shape of an arc of a circle with an arrow at each end A dotted outline of the object being rotated appears and the current angle of rotation is dynamically shown in the status bar Rotation works in a slightly different way for 3D objects because the Note rotation occurs in 3D space and not in one plane See Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects regarding rotation when the Edit Points mode is active Rotations are made about an axis which is displayed as a small symbol This is normally located at the midpoint of the object but you can move the axis of rotation with the mouse to any location you like even outside the object If you hold down the Shift key during the rotation the operation will be carried out in increments of 15 subject to whether Snap position is set to When creating or moving objects under Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt Grid Mouse cursor Centre of Rotation Figure 42 Rotating an object 44 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Changing inclination or perspective To slant or shear objects use the red handles located at the midpoint of an edge of the selected objects The mouse pointer changes to a when the pointer hovers over one of these midpoint handles In current versions of Draw basic shapes can be sheared and slanted The effect however will probably be different to that obtained when a
19. horizontal or at any angle and the spot at which the transparency begins A regular color gradient can be defined in the same manner Select an object choose a gradient fill from the Line and Filling toolbar The Gradient icon is NOW active When you click on the gradient icon a dashed line connecting two squares appears on the object just as it does for a transparency gradient In both cases click outside the object to set the gradient If the transparency and gradient icons are not visible you can display them using View gt Toolbars gt Mode Note Moving the squares will have different effects depending on the type of gradient For example for a linear gradient the start and end squares of the gradient will always be situated to either side of the center point of the object The three examples in Figure 104 demonstrate how the type and degree of transparency can be controlled 76 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide A single color object and a transparency gradient covering part of the underlying object The gradient can be dynamically adjusted made more transparent by moving the white square or more opaque by moving the black square An object with a color gradient completely covering another object The gradient is adjusted dynamically by moving the squares the color of the square relating to the increase or decrease in that color An object with both color and transparency gradients partly covering t
20. 136 3D object rotation You can rotate the object about each axis X Y Z The X and Y axes are those parallel to the edges of the drawing layer while the Z axis comes out of the page It is not possible to change the axis orientation The three axes are not shown directly but the o symbol indicates their intersection point If you want to You must rotate the object put the mouse cursor over the object With the left about the X or Y axis mouse key pressed you can now rotate the object as you wish Moving one of the red points at the middle of an edge allows you to rotate the object about only one axis Note that the cursor initially has the shape for a 2D Shearing movement but pressing the mouse button changes it to a rotation cursor rotate the object move the handle on one of the corner points with the about the Z axis left mouse button pressed Rotation about the Z axis is independent of the setting of the rotation angle in the dialog Position and Size move the axis simply drag the Symbol to the desired location The intersection point point is located by default in the middle of the object These rotations can be carried out on a 3D scene as a whole or on individual objects within a 3D scene 116 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Procedure for 3D shapes Objects produced using variations 4 and 5 see above can only be rotated about the Z axis when using the three methods described
21. In the first example the depth length of a body is to be changed This is possible only if you created it through extrusion To illustrate draw a circle and convert it according to Variation 1 into a 3D object a flat cylinder see Figure 142 a and b If necessary select the cylinder open the 3D Effects dialog make sure the Geometry page is active change the parameter Depth to 3 5cm and click on the Assign icon The cylinder should now resemble the figure in Figure 142c Figure 142 Conversion by extrusion of a 2D object a into a 3D object b and then changing its depth c This parameter has no effect on a rotation body or on ready made 3D objects although the input field remains active With the Rounding parameter you can specify how strongly the edges of the 3D object are rounded Select if necessary the lengthened cylinder again and use the Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects 119 3D Effects dialog to change the rounding to 30 The cylinder should now resemble that in Figure 143 Figure 143 Edge rounding of 10 a and 30 b This parameter also has interesting effects when you convert text into a 3D object The Scaled Depth parameter sets the size ratio of the front to the back for a 3D object produced by extrusion The front side of such an object always protrudes out from the original surface the rear side is the original surface of the 2D object that is the 2D exit surface even if the object ha
22. Line Styles tab see Figure 75 From here you can customize the line styles or create your own by clicking on the Add button You can change the length of the dashes the space between them and several other attributes Use the Load Line Style cand Save Line Style or read one from disk file extension sod icons to save a new definition 60 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Line Shadow Line Styles Arrow Styles Properties Line style Fine dashed Ma Type Number 1 il Length 0 51cm 0 51cm Spacing 0 51cm E Fit to line width i Figure 75 Editing line styles Customizing arrow styles You can also create your own arrowheads to provide some interesting effects such as gt The first step is to draw a curve with the shape you want for the arrowhead Figure 76 To create your own arrowhead you must first draw a curve The arrowhead must be a curve A curve is something you could draw without lifting a pencil For example Se is a curve but is not a curve You can however draw forms which are not curves and then convert them to a curve afterwards Note Select the curve open the Line dialog and go to the Arrow Styles page Click on Add enter a name for the arrow style and click OK see Figure 77 Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes 61 The part of the shape which should point in the direction of the line must Tip be drawn facing upwards In Figure 76 the to
23. OpenOffice org Draw gt Print 2 Under Contents select the Print text in black option Click OK to save the change 3 Open the Print dialog File gt Print 4 Click the Print button to print the document Exporting to PDF OpenOffice org can export documents to PDF Portable Document Format This industry standard file format is ideal for sending the file to someone else to view using Adobe Reader or other PDF viewers The process and dialogs are the same for Writer Calc Impress and Draw with a few minor differences mentioned in this section Quick export to PDF thy Click the Export Directly as PDF icon to export the entire document using your default PDF settings You are asked to enter the file name and location for the PDF file but you do not get a chance to choose a page range the image compression or other options Controlling PDF content and quality For more control over the content and quality of the resulting PDF use File gt Export as PDF The PDF Options dialog opens This dialog has five pages General Initial View User Interface Links and Security Select the appropriate settings and then click Export In the following dialog enter the location and file name of the PDF to be created and click Save to export the file See Chapter 10 Printing Exporting Emailing in the Getting Started book for details Exporting to other formats OpenOffice org uses the term export for some file
24. The glue points that you add remain visible as long as the Glue Points icon is active They appear as small blue crosses A selected glue point has a gray square behind the cross You can move a selected glue point with the mouse or delete it with the Del key Use these four buttons to choose one or more directions permitted for a connector to join to a particular glue point Activate Glue Points and then choose the direction If for example you activate only the button every connector will be forced to come to that glue point from the left side EE Ee Et 166 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide eel E In the left hand drawing below is a glue point in the circle with a left entry and one in the square with a right entry The effect of this when adding a connector between the two glue points is shown in the right hand drawing en 95E If you are in glue point editing mode and you add another direction to a glue point for example by activating the G button Draw tries to optimize the length of the connector For the example above the connection inside the circle would change as shown below If the Glue Point Relative button is active as it is by default the glue point will move when you change the size of the object as shown below i ioo If the Glue Point Relative button is deactivated the remaining buttons on the toolbar previously grayed out become active With these buttons you can decide how a glue point w
25. There is no need to use the Grid section as these settings can be changed directly from the icons on the Options toolbar Options OpenOffice org Draw Grid OpenOffice org Grid Load Save Language Settings Snap to grid enOffice org Draw yale C visible arid Resolution ta 7 aoa 1 E point s Vertical ert point s _ Synchronise axes Snap _ __ Snap position To snap lines _ When creating or moving objects _ To the page margins Extend edges To abject frame _ When rotating 15 00 degrees To object points Point reduction 15 00 degrees zy snap range 5 Pixels ic OpenOfice org Base Charts Internet Figure 174 Configuring the grid Resolution sets the horizontal and vertical distance between two grid points Q Q Figure 175 Grids with different resolutions Subdivisions determines how many steps there are between adjacent grid points Intermediate steps make it possible to have a larger separation between two grid points so the drawing remains clearer Objects can snap to intermediate points in exactly the same way as to grid points Q Figure 176 Grid with intermediate steps subdivisions The snap field settings are largely self explanatory One important setting is the Snap range Grid points and snap lines are both visual help elements that are managed separately by Draw If you have activated a snap function and then move an object 142 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide
26. WIIG escrir pR E EREE EERE 202 Connecting and breaking FCS goin csrecexeccunteaadcencisiedclebcsnnbeiareindbanyouentierieacneiaeaeess 203 a a E gt ERE EEE ES E EN E ae pa regen T N TE E A EA 204 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide 5 Note for Mac users Some keystrokes and menu items are different on a Mac from those used in Windows and Linux The table below gives some common substitutions for the instructions in this chapter For a more detailed list see the application Help Windows Linux Mac equivalent Effect Tools gt Options menu selection OpenOffice org gt Preferences Access setup options Right click Control click Open context menu Ctrl Control 3 Command Used with other keys F5 Shift F5 Open the Navigator F11 T Open Styles amp Formatting window 6 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide OpenOffice org 3 Chapter 1 Introducing Draw Introduction Draw is a vector graphics drawing tool although it can also perform some operations on raster graphics pixels Using Draw you can quickly create a wide variety of graphical images Vector graphics store and display a picture as simple geometric elements such as lines circles and polygons rather than as a collection of pixels points on the screen This permits simpler storage and supports precise scaling of the picture elements Draw is fully integrated into the OpenOffice org suite and this simplifies exchanging gra
27. You can use this dialog to round the corners of the usual Draw objects text boxes legends rectangles and squares as shown in Figure 48 The same effect can be achieved when you are in the points mode click the Points icon on the Drawing toolbar by dragging the large handle with the mouse The larger the value for the corner radius the rounder the object becomes Slant You can shear both the older classic Draw objects and the newer Shape objects Enter the slant angle in the box marked Slant Angle Figure 49 Example of setting the slant angle Editing object points For polygons and B zier curves Draw offers a complete set of tools that let you accurately edit the contour of an object To edit other objects in the same way you must first convert them into curves To do this select the object then right click and choose Convert gt To Curve or choose Modify gt Convert gt To Curve from the menu bar You can also convert the shapes to a polygon Convert gt To Polygon With polygons the edge points are always connected with straight lines and not with curves Some of the techniques described work equally with polygons as with curves Another way to change the form of basic shapes In current versions of Draw many of the new shapes can be directly edited without having to convert them to curves first You can recognize these objects by the presence of one or more circular yellow handles as shown in Figure 50 m
28. a mosaic The center and right pictures below had an element resolution of 5 pixels The picture on the right also had the Enhance edges option selected with the greater contrast at the edges it appears to be a little sharper If your picture is linked filters are applied only to the current view The stored picture is not changed When you close the document all filtering is lost You should ensure that you export the picture to create Caution a copy with all the filters applied File gt Export A If you have embedded the graphic in the document all filters are applied directly on the embedded graphic and cannot be undone in a subsequent session If you do not want to retain a filter you must use Edit gt Undo to return to an earlier state of editing After you save and close the document the filter effects are permanent Changing colors using the eyedropper Use the eyedropper to change one color in a picture for another or set the color as transparent The tool always works on the entire picture you cannot select only a region for editing The changes are carried out on the graphic itself and therefore require it to be embedded Attempts to use the eyedropper tool on a linked graphic result in the following message This graphic is linked to a document Do you want to unlink the graphic is order to edit it The tool can be used on all raster graphic formats and with many but not all Metafile formats Note In Ope
29. a polygon or group of polygons with four corner points and the image set as a background graphic In this state you are not able to further edit the graphic All your modifications must be completed before this point The polygon is in fact a vector graphic but the picture remains as a bitmap image Using a polygon offers possibilities for further change for example you can modify the shape or define a transparency gradient Convert to a polygon Select the picture so you see the green handles From the context menu or from the Modify menu choose Convert gt to Polygon This command converts areas of the same color into small filled polygons The total image becomes a vector graphic and can be resized with no loss of image quality or distortion of text The resulting format will be a Metafile Convert to Polygon settings Number of colors e Point reduction Pre a 3 Fill holes Tile size 20 Pixel HH Source picture Vectorized image Progress Figure 125 Conversion of a picture to polygons Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 105 The Convert to Polygon dialog has a number of settings which can be tested using the Preview button Because graphics conversion can take some time depending on the picture and the computer a progress bar is included at the bottom of the dialog Number of colors Draw considers between 8 and 32 colors in the conversion The picture can however contain fewer
30. above procedure to add successive segments or e Go back and click once on the end point of the first segment and keep the mouse button pressed Now you can drag the initial control point for the second segment into place as described above Release the mouse button at the desired position of the control point and move the mouse to the end position of the second segment The curve follows the line of movement of the mouse You can either end the drawing here with a double click or continue and link in further segments To generate a closed curve select the curve and click on the Close B zier icon on the Edit Points toolbar or right click and select Close object from the context menu Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 197 Transition points For the transition from one segment to the next there are three different types of points each with its own properties Corner points This is the only common point between two segments which are otherwise independent of each other It is likely that the curve has a kink at this point depending on the angle of the tangents the lines from the corner point to each control point see Figure 242 Figure 242 Corner point Smooth transition points The tangent lines to the common point have the same angle and form a straight line If you change the position of one of the control points the other also moves so that the tangents remain in a straight line This also applies to the case w
31. addition both height and width have been scaled down by 28 Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 97 If you choose Keep Scale the graphic will be cropped to the scales shown in the width and height boxes and the picture reduced in size accordingly If you choose Keep image size the graphic will be cropped and then enlarged to the original image size Take care with these operations in the Crop dialog the width and height are treated as totally independent values Changing one without the other can result in significant distortion of the image this might not be what you want The Position and Size dialog on the context menu has an option for keeping the width height ratio fixed while changing one of the two dimensions Changing values in one area Scale or Image Size will show up correspondingly in the other area Any changes made in the Crop dialog change only the view of the Caution picture The original picture is not changed If you want to export a cropped graphic you must do it through File gt Export If you use the VAN option Save as Picture from the context menu the changes are not exported The graphic filter toolbar Click the Filter icon to open the Filter toolbar Draw offers eleven filter effects Filters work on the current view of an object and they can be combined Filters always apply to the entire graphic it is not possible to use filters to edit only a part of the object Fj Invert r
32. and horizontal lines enclosing the object are shown while moving the object These lines extend to the edges of the drawing area This function is also described in detail in Chapter 8 Floating and moving toolbars Many toolbar icons are marked with a small arrow The arrow indicates that this icon has additional tools Click the arrow to display the full set of tools see Figure 14 Chapter 1 Introducing Draw 15 You can tear off this tool set so it becomes a floating toolbar Click the area at the bottom of the toolset drag it across the screen to a location you want and then release the mouse button To dock a floating toolbar to the top or side of the Draw workspace Ctrl click on the title of the toolbar To float a docked toolbar click on its handle and drag it off the side of the workspace see Figure 15 The floating toolbar capability is common to all components of OpenOffice org Flowchart he ad E 2 i p g g T E Ae Pee a T Ss ASG Wee Ta i Se 4 Va B x S Ava gt D g ns i ae e Ag Click here and drag Toolbar tears off and floats Figure 14 An arrow next to an icon indicates additional functions When a toolset is made into a floating toolbar the icon on the existing toolbar remains in the toolbar and always shows the last command you used This means that the icon you see on your screen may differ from the icon shown in this Guide Note Handles of dock
33. and the input field is again active You can at this stage select the color you have just defined give it a new name and store it by clicking the Add button The old color will then without any further warning be overwritten Changing colors using the Color dialog Method 1 You can change the current color by modifying the individual color values explicitly It is possible to change from one color model to another during this process but the settings are always calculated and stored according to the RGB model This may result in some slight adjustment to your input values in the other models The color wheel to the right illustrates the HSB color model This model defines the color tone in terms of three parameters Hue possible values from 0 to 359 Saturation possible values from 0 to 100 and Brightness possible values from 0 to 100 is Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks 155 defined The number for the hue represents the angle in the color wheel the other two are both percentage values Method 2 You can select a new color by clicking on a point in the color window at the upper right of the dialog The chosen color is shown in a black frame which can be dragged with the mouse If this color is not quite right you can fine tune it as described above in Method 1 by changing the color values As you drag the small square you will see the value change in the number fields The CMYK and RGB are more or less self explanatory
34. arrow on the right side of the icon Adding ellipse and arc tools to the Drawing toolbar In previous versions of Draw a long click on the ellipse button opened a new toolbar that contained tools for drawing elliptical and circular arcs This function is not directly available in Version 3 3 If you really need this tool you can add an Ellipse toolbar to the Drawing toolbar 1 2 3 Click on the arrow on the right hand end of the Drawing toolbar and select Customize Toolbar On the Toolbars page of the Customize dialog select Drawing in the Toolbar field and click Add In the Add Commands dialog Figure 25 select Drawing in the Category list select the first Ellipse command in the Commands list click Add and then click Close Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes 29 Category E dit Options BASIE Insert Biocuments Format Controls Navigate Table Graphic Connector Numbering El Description Commands Direction Ad Drawing View Er Eliminate Points Clog Ellipse D iam Hel Ellipse all d CL Ellipse Pie oS i sec With Customize Cs Ellipse Sec it oe DED O Ellipse Un Toolbar YOu Can pa add the ellipse toolbar l Using Customize Toolbar wou can add the Ellipse icon which opens the Circles and Ovals teolbar Figure 25 Adding the extended Ellipse toolbar 4 On the Customize dialog ensure that the checkbox by the new Ellipse command is selected and then use the
35. booklet 20 brochure 20 general options 18 grayscale on color printer 21 multiple pages per sheet 19 page orientation 18 selecting what to print 19 projection 130 R raster graphics 89 90 128 Index 205 reducing color depth 103 relief filter 101 remove noise 99 removing links to files 90 renaming objects 95 RGB colors 96 154 rotating 3D objects 116 rotating an object 44 72 rotation angle of 3D bodies 121 rotation mode 54 rounding of 3D object 119 rulers 9 S scale drawings 172 scaled depth of 3D object 120 segments of 3D bodies 121 selecting objects 40 selection mode 39 40 send backward 41 send document as e mail 23 send to back 84 set in circle perspective 74 set to circle slant 75 Shading of 3D objects 123 Shadow effect 96 Shadows 65 69 Shadows of 3D objects 125 Sharpen image 99 Slanting text 169 Slide Design dialog 152 Slides 150 smooth image 98 smooth transition 50 198 Snap functions 15 140 Snap lines definition 143 editing 144 inserting using coordinates 144 inserting with mouse 143 Snap points 143 snap range 142 snap to grid 141 Snap to object frame 145 Snap to object points 145 Snap to page edge 144 solarization filter 99 Spacing settings 187 Spacing to borders 168 Special effects 72 specular color 132 spherical normal effect 123 split curve 52 standard connectors 165 Standard toolbar 12 Status bar 10 Straight connectors 165 Styles 71 subtracting objects 82 symbol lib
36. broken down into small triangular segments Draw offers three methods to produce this effect Flat Phong and Gouraud The setting selected applies to all objects in the 3D scene Chapter 7 Working with 35D Objects 123 Flat is the fastest and simplest method For every individual segment a special color tone is determined based on the lighting ratio and the direction of the segment area This tone is used for the whole area of the segment The segmentation is clearly visible Phong is the most time consuming method With this method for each pixel the associated normal is determined by interpolation based on the normals of the segment edges This causes the segment area to appear curved and the segment intersections are no longer visible Surface angle 0 degreef s 0 10cm 10 00cm Figure 151 Shading page Gouraud is a relatively quick method It determines the color value for the segment corners and calculates the color value for every pixel through linear interpolation The segment edges are still recognizable but significantly less so than with the flat method The Gouraud method considers only light reflection on diffuse reflecting surfaces dispersal Figure 152 Flat Phong and Gouraud shading In Figure 152 the left sphere was rendered with flat shading the middle with Phong and the right with Gouraud The quality of the flat method is clearly inferior to the other two The difference between Phong a
37. click in the Signature field brings up the signature box Note that a document must be saved at least once before it can be signed After it is signed an indicator is present in this field The Slide field shows the sequence number for the current drawing page in addition to the total number of pages that you created so far This is useful when your drawing has a number of pages If you select an object the field enclosed by parentheses Shows the layer in which the object resides within the drawing In the example of Figure 5 the object is on the Layout layer of Slide 1 and there is a total number of one slide so far The Page style field shows which template is being used The vertical bar in the middle of the Zoom slider represents a zoom factor of 100 To change the view magnification drag the Zoom slider or click on the and signs or right click on the zoom level percent to pop up a list of magnification values from which to choose Double clicking on the zoom level percent to open the Zoom amp View Layout dialog Toolbars You can display or hide the various Draw toolbars according to your needs To display or hide a toolbar click View gt Toolbars On the menu that appears choose which toolbars you want to display You can also select the icons that you wish to appear on the toolbars To change the visible icons on any toolbar click the arrow at the right hand end of that toolbar and Chapter 1 Introducing Draw 11
38. colors than 8 For every color occurring in the picture Draw creates a polygon which may consist of several disconnected parts These polygons are then filled with the relevant color The algorithm used to reduce the number of colors in the picture to the number specified is not yet optimal For this reason you may prefer to try reducing the number of colors by changing the color depth or with the Posterize filter page 100 from the Graphic Filter toolbar page 98 Point reduction Polygons will only be created if they have a size greater than the value given in this setting The section of the picture below highly magnified shows that with a larger point count small flecks of color typical of irregular color patterns simply disappear 2 Pixel 3 Pixel Fill holes Point reduction can result in small areas or holes which are not covered by a polygon If the Fill holes option is marked additional square tiled areas are created with a background color the same as the hole The Tile size option allows the width in pixels of the width of these square areas to be preset Original picture Original picture with 16 colors and O Pixel point reduction vectorized 106 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Original picture transformed with the and then with 16 colors and 0 pixel Poster filter and 64 colors point reduction vectorized Here the picture is transformed with the The effect below was generated from the Pos
39. dsc02845 jpg Graphics jpq 11 16 2006 21 35 59 H DSCO2845 JPG Graphics jpg 10 05 2006 13 47 16 ls dscO2846 jpg Graphics jpg 11 16 2006 21 36 00 DSCO2846 JPG Graphics jpg 10 05 2006 13 49 02 dsc02847 jpg Graphics jpg 11 16 2006 21 36 01 File name File type O Link X Preview Figure 116 Inserting a picture notice Link and Preview options in lower left of dialog Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 89 To link or to embed If you select the Link option in the Insert picture dialog the graphic is linked rather than embedded It is not actually inserted into the document instead a link to the graphic is created This link is relative to the folder where the document is stored even though it shows up in the Edit Links dialog see Figure 117 as an absolute link If you store the document and the graphic in the same folder and transport the folder as a whole to another computer the graphic will show up in the document as before Linked graphics are not changed as a result of any actions carried out within OpenOffice org Such changes affect only the view of the graphic in the document and not the graphic itself In particular the format of a linked graphic remains unchanged In contrast when a raster graphic is embedded in an OOo document it is converted into PNG format Linking keeps the file size of the Draw document small The picture can be edited or even replaced by another and the link wi
40. flowchart The individual symbols must be exactly positioned if the connectors joining them are to form a vertical line The midpoints of all the symbols that lie in a vertical straight line should have the same X coordinate and those on the same level on a horizontal line should have the same Y coordinate 162 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Figure 204 The Flowchart toolbar Figure 205 Example of a flow diagram Chapter 9 Organization Charts Flow Diagrams and More 163 Select the shapes that are to lie in a vertical straight line and center them with Modify gt Alignment gt Centered For those on a horizontal line select the shapes and center them with Modify gt Alignment gt Center You can also set snap lines if you need several vertical lines After adding text and setting the fill color you can join individual symbols together and add text to the connectors This technique is described in the next section Glue points and connectors These elements were briefly introduced in Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes This section describes how to use them Connectors are lines or arrows whose ends automatically dock to a connection or glue point on an object Connectors are particularly useful when drawing organization charts flow diagrams and mind maps The connecting lines between the symbols remain intact even when the latter are moved or rearranged The Connector toolbar Click on the 7 arrow of the
41. ga a oo Z Text with automatic j Text with automatic nas es go i E E E aaenaaacensaniiiiandiicceemiiiatetaiiceeinme a es o 0ucm E lack A a Invisible E tinuous Ultratineg dasher Co 0 0ucm e MB black A invisible Invisible Z q E amp 10 lft 14 1b 18 ZU Fine dashed E Gradient Ultrafine 2 dots 3 dashes tomatic Hatching Fine dalled ks a 2 Bilmap Line with fine dots a Fine dashed variable 3 dashes 3 dots variable Ultrafine dotted variable aS Line slyle 9 iss 2 dots 1 dash Dashed variable foo oem H IBM Black A Color E H olack amp Coler yellow 6 6 3022 14 1 18 po 22 24 2P omen 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 21 26 28 30 3 ellow 2 l Yellow 3 Text with automatic E vellow 4 line breaks ms MM Yellow 5 8 B Yellow 6 F B velluw 7 Figure 203 Working with text frames Drawing a flow diagram For drawing flow diagrams also known as flowcharts Draw offers a separate toolbar Figure 204 click the flowchart icon on the main Drawing toolbar The easiest way to draw a flowchart is to follow the same setup procedure as for organization charts Select the symbols from the toolbar and drag them into position as described in Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes See Figure 205 for an example of a typical
42. have selected a basic shape or a classical drawing Note object look in the left hand side of the status bar you will see either Ellipse selected Classical object or Shape selected Basic Shape In the Text tab of the Edit Style dialog set the Spacing to borders values of the Spacing to Borders to O cm for all four directions ajr Left 0 00cm F Right 0 00cm 4 a gt Top 0 00cm Bottom 0 00cm ah Set Options as Left in the tab Alignment Options Justified 184 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Now we can try out some of the different possibilities of text anchoring Shapes Classical drawing objects Text anchor C r i E _ Full width Text anchored to left middle the text block is placed on the left side and Anchor left middle Left edge here means the Anchor left middle Left edge here means the left side of the object frame the frame with the green handles which is visible when you click on the object edge of the text frame whose left side fits totally within the figure centered vertically Text anchor e _ _ _ l i Loo i Third _ Full width Third line Anchor lower right The lower right corner of the text block lies in the lower right corner of the invisible object frame Text anchor to lower right The lower right corner of the text block sits against the edge of the figure
43. in the previous section This rotation is carried out on the underlying 2D object It is also possible to rotate the 3D object in the same way as with a 2D object using Format gt Position and Size gt Rotation shortcut key for Position and Size is F4 and specifying the pivot point location and the number of degrees of rotation desired Shape objects have their own procedure for rotation about the X and Y axes If you have activated the 3D Settings toolbar under View gt Toolbars this becomes active when you select the 3D object icons 2 to 5 on this toolbar see Figure 137 rotate the object in 5 degree increments about the X and Y axes X Figure 137 3D Settings toolbar with rotation icons indicated 3D settings for 3D bodies 3D Effects dialog general buttons The 3D Effects dialog offers a wide range of possible settings for 3D objects produced with variations 1 to 3 see previous sections To open the dialog right click on the object and choose 3D Effects from the pop up menu You can also activate a 3D Effects icon B on the Standard toolbar or add it to another toolbar using Customize Toolbar gt Add gt Category Options gt 3D Effects If you cannot see 3D Effects on the pop up menu you probably have a Tip 3D object extruded from a basic shape by clicking on the icon for Extrusion On Off on the Drawing Toolbar The dialog can be docked in a similar manner to the Navigator or Template windows The possible setti
44. other dimension lines they will have the settings contained in the style If you want to make general setting changes to the Dimension Lines style change the appropriate style As soon as you confirm the changes with OK the new settings will be applied to all dimension lines Working with text in Draw You can use text in Draw in various ways e asa text element e as text associated with a picture e as an element out of the Fontwork gallery e asa Writer OLE object Configuring text elements with styles Text like all drawing objects can be associated with styles The text settings in styles always affect the whole text element You can format individual parts of a text element but only by using manual formatting which is not related at all to styles and templates Styles for characters and paragraphs do not exist in Draw Open the Styles and Formatting dialog by pressing F11 Access the formatting dialogs using the toolbar icons the context menu or the Format menu The Indents and Spacing Text Text effects Tabs and Alignment tabs of the style dialog function the same way as in text documents although some options are not available in Draw Specific to drawing objects are the tabs Text and Text Animation Text animation On the Text Animation tab you can set how the text moves within the object frame Such effects are interesting mainly for documents that are to be shown on the screen They are therefore more commonly used in
45. really need Examples for setting up the snap functions are found in Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques Snap to grid Use this function to move an object exactly to a grid point This function can be switched on and off with View gt Grid gt Snap to Grid and on the Options toolbar HT with the icon Aj Figure 172 Exact positioning with the snap to grid function Showing the grid To make the grid visible choose View gt Grid gt Display Grid Alternatively turn the grid on or off with the icon on the Options toolbar Changing the color of the grid points By default the grid points are bright gray and not always easy to see Go to Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org gt Appearance In the Drawing Presentation section you can change the color of the grid points On the Color Settings pull down menu select a more suitable visible color for example black OpenOffice org User Data General Scheme OpenOffice org z Save Memory View Print Paths Colors Fonts Security Accessibility Java Online Update Color scheme Custom colors On User interface elements VULT JC JII ULU J Drawing Presentation Basic Syntax Highlighting Color setting Preview Automatic xy a Figure 173 Changing the color of the grid points Configuring the grid Under Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt Grid you can change the settings of the grid Figure 174 Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks 141
46. set up To send the current document in OpenDocument format 1 Choose File gt Send gt Document as E mail OpenOffice org opens your default e mail program The document is attached 2 In your e mail program enter the recipient subject and any text you want to add then send the e mail If you choose E mail as PDF OpenOffice org first creates a PDF using your default PDF settings as when using the Export Directly as PDF toolbar button and then opens your email program with the PDF file attached You can email a document to several recipients For details see Chapter 10 Printing Exporting Emailing in the Getting Started book Chapter 1 Introducing Draw 23 m Vr OpenOffice org 3 Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes Creating simple drawings You can create 2D and 3D objects in Draw This chapter shows how to draw simple 2D objects The following chapters describe how to work with and edit such objects All shapes whether they are lines rectangles or more complicated shapes are called objects This is common notation in vector drawing software The drawing tools are found on the Drawing toolbar Figures 19 and 32 show parts of the standard form of the toolbar as installed with Draw As described in Chapter 1 Introducing Draw the Drawing toolbar is normally located at the bottom of the window If you do not see it you can activate it from the View gt Toolbars menu As in all components of OpenOffi
47. style to Continuous 136 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide If you select several 2D objects without grouping them and extrude the selection they are transformed according to their stacking order with different extrusion depths The object previously on top will be uppermost on the extruded object For 2D objects use Modify gt Shapes gt Merge Subtract Intersect to produce complex objects The resulting figures can be also extruded rotated and so on Rotation of lines produces concave bodies Use a bright line color With a high number of vertical segments the transition to the ground is relatively sharp edged Remember to switch on two sided illumination The transparency of the platter is adjusted in the surface properties of the body The best effect is obtained only when the transparent body is combined with other objects The color shadow of the fruit is produced by the use of multiple light sources they are not real and do not rotate and change as the scene is rotated Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects 137 r en OpenOffice org 3 Chapter amp Tips and Tricks Positioning objects with zoom With zoom you can place objects with greater precision Figure 167 Using zoom to place objects with greater precision Zoom adjustments using the status bar The current zoom value is shown at the right hand end of the status bar next to the zoom slider 16
48. text can be added to an object see Figure 37 The exceptions to this are control elements like buttons or list boxes as well as 3D scenes and their associated elements and groups If the Double click to edit Text icon E on the Options toolbar is active you can start editing an object by double clicking on it or by pressing F2 In the middle of the Draw object a black bar indicates the text cursor start typing to input text The status bar shows Text Edit at the lower left and the position of the cursor within the text Text can contain paragraphs and these can be in the form of bulleted or numbered lists To begin a new line without beginning a new paragraph use the key combination Shift Enter as in text documents To end the text input click next to the object or press the Esc key TextEdit Paragraph 1 Row 1 Column 1 TextEdit Paragraph 1 Row 2 Column 3 Figure 37 Adding text to objects Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes 37 OpenOffice org 3 Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points Introduction This chapter looks at the tools and functions that let you modify existing drawings All of the functions apply to a selected object or group of objects which can be distinguished by small colored squares or circles located around it These points are called handles The handles form a rectangular frame that is just big enough to contain the object Where severa
49. than one scanner or equivalent device is present you can select the source from Insert gt Picture gt Scan gt Select Source 90 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide To insert an image from the scanner 1 Prepare the image in the scanner and make sure that the scanner is ready 2 Choose Insert gt Picture gt Scan gt Request 3 The rest of the procedure depends on the scanner driver and interface You will normally be required to specify the resolution a scan window and other options Consult the scanner s documentation for more information 4 When the image is scanned Draw places it on the page At this point it can be edited like any other image Pasting from the clipboard The clipboard offers another way to insert graphics Depending on the source and the operating system figures may be in different formats You can obtain an overview by choosing Edit gt Paste Special from the menu bar or by clicking on the Paste icon s drop down menu on the main toolbar The choices on the list vary with the type of graphic on the clipboard Dragging and dropping Drag and drop is also possible in many cases The exact way that drag and drop works is determined by the operating system in use and the source of the graphic regardless of whether the graphic is to be embedded or linked The behavior can be controlled by the use of the Control or Control Shift keys together Draw objects and images which are used frequently can be sto
50. the 3D body as a single element 3D scenes can however be extended to include other 3D objects as described in Combining objects in 3D scenes on page 134 As mentioned in Chapter 6 Editing Pictures you can access individual elements of the group using Modify gt Enter group or the context menu The status bar text then changes and shows the type of each individual element selected for example Sphere selected or Extrusion object selected Producing 3D shapes Since the release of Version 2 0 of OpenOffice org Draw contains a type of drawing object known as a Basic Shape A special method of extrusion exists for these shapes Variation 4 Extrusion of basic shapes Basic Shapes aed B OeGAR FoF SSO rTragarAad Ea Figure 132 The Basic Shapes toolbar You use the Basic Shapes toolbar or another shape toolbar to produce 2D surfaces Shapes such as cylinders or cubes are technically possible but not very useful because they produce curiously curved images If you have drawn a shape the last icon on the Drawing toolbar is active A click on this icon can transform a 2D surface into a 3D object see Figure 133 Extrusion of a shape does not create a new object type but just changes the shape s appearance All the object s properties and settings are retained You can use this button to toggle between a 2D and a 3D view The actual object properties and settings are not lost in the switching operation f
51. the Impress module For printed text they do not make any real sense and are not dealt with further in this guide Text On the Text tab you can determine the behavior of the text block in relation to the border of the drawing object The same settings can be altered as manual formatting under the Text command in the Format menu or in the context menu The type of drawing object determines which settings are active and what effect they have on the text Shapes behave differently to other drawing objects To experiment with the settings use objects with rounded edges so that differences in spacing and alignment show up better Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 183 Graphics Styles Default Organiser Line Area Shadowing Transparency Font FontEffect Indents amp Spacing PRE i ij Text Text Animation Dimensioning Connector Alignment Tabs Text v Fit height to text Cc be fee l Lm La Figure 232 Text tab of Graphic Styles dialog Anchoring text To try out the different settings possible for text anchors start by drawing an ellipse from the Drawing or Basic Shapes toolbars Change into Text edit mode by double clicking on the ellipse and write several not too long lines of text Repeat with an ellipse from the Circles and Ovals toolbar a classical drawing object This toolbar is not available by default you must customize the Drawing toolbar to add it To tell whether you
52. the start and end points are Smooth points or Symmetric points and the control point does not lie directly on the curve point it changes position so it is in a straight line with the line segment and the closing line will be a curve see Figure 245 fora comparison To prevent this happening change the curve point type before closing to a corner point Figure 245 Close curve start and end points are corner points left smooth or symmetric points right Transformation between straight line and Bezier curve Transform a straight segment into a B zier curve Select the larger of the two handles at the ends of the straight line this will be the starting point of the curve After a short time the Convert to curve icon on the Edit Points toolbar becomes active It starts in the out position Click the icon to turn on the function The straight line is transformed into a B zier curve The type of the segment end point remains as it was Using this function you can convert one side of a polygon or a part of a polyline into a B zier curve Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 199 Transform a B zier curve into a straight segment Select the larger of the two handles at the ends of the curve this will be the starting point of the straight segment After a short time the Convert to curve icon on the Edit Points toolbar becomes active It starts in the in position Click the icon to turn off the function The B zier curve
53. two objects amp Y Figure 197 The two objects selected for cross fading Then choose Edit gt Cross fading Cross fading Settings Increments Cross fade attributes Same orientation Figure 198 Cross fading dialog On the dialog choose the number of increments transition steps You probably want to have Cross fade attributes and Same orientation both checked The end result is shown in Figure 196 Which object goes in front How do I tell Draw that I want q and not Y Select y the object we want in front right click and choose Arrange gt Bring to Front or press Ctril Shift plus Or select C the object we want behind right click and choose Arrange gt Send to Back or press Ctrl Shift minus 158 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide mm OpenOffice org 3 Chapter 9 Organization Charts Flow Diagrams and More Drawing an organization chart Even though Draw does not have an organization chart toolbar you can draw these charts by drawing rectangles and connector lines see Figure 199 You can indicate hierarchies by using a color progression from dark to light tones Your color choices Should maintain a good contrast between text color and background so that you can easily read the printed diagram Figure 199 Example of an Organization Chart Before you begin prepare a setup page or draft with snap lines to assist in drawing the various hierarchies responsibility p
54. want to change in position Next click on the icon and then move the mouse over the other object The mouse cursor changes 84 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide into a hand and the outline of the second object becomes a dashed line see below Clicking on this object completes the rearrangement of position Y K reverses the order of the selected objects this option is grayed out if only one object is selected Y R Aligning objects Select two objects and long click on Zik on the Drawing toolbar to open the Align toolbar This toolbar can be torn off and made to float The tools help you position objects with respect to each other Align TX bel pi fel 3 RE E 1 234 56 1 Align left 4 Align top 2 Center horizontally 5 Center vertically 3 Align right 6 Align bottom Figure 112 The floating Align toolbar O ue Align left af Center horizontally Chapter 5 Combining Multiple Objects 85 onl Align right H Align top Center vertically H Align bottom If you have selected only one object clicking the various buttons on the Align toolbar positions the object in relation to the drawing page Distributing the distance and space between objects Select at least three objects Now you are able to select the option Distribution on the Modify menu or from the right click menu The Distribution dialog contains a number of options described below Figure 113 Distribution of s
55. which can be used as an object property for the surface of an object Every object in a 3D scene can have its own texture You can set a raster graphic as a texture for a 3D object in the same way as for a 2D object Format gt Area gt Bitmaps or right click on the object gt Area gt Bitmaps as is the case for Gradient and Hatching More details are found in Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes If the Fill setting on the Area dialog is Color then the Texture page is inactive Change it to Bitmap to activate the Texture page for 3D objects If the texture is not tiled or stretched and is smaller than the object then the remainder of the area will have the color of the Object color property on the Material page 128 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide 3D Effects Textures Type P Mode gA Projection Projection Y S Filtering Figure 159 Textures page In the first row of the page Figure 159 are two Type switches allowing you to choose between black and white or color for the texture see Figure 160 H Hintergr nde liquid blue C Programme OpenOffice org 2 0 share gallery www back liquid blue jpg J Begrenzungen gt Aes ue vo ae my Bullets oO Eigenes Thema E Hintergr nde Homepage ee EG Figure 160 a standard color setting b texture color c texture black and white With the two swi
56. you can determine which section of the entire text document is visible You should switch off the ruler view The most common typing mistakes include Exchanging tow letters or making the first two letters CApitals Figure 239 Editing in Writer as an OLE object Click outside the object to leave editing mode Double click on the object or use Edit gt Object gt Edit to change again into editing mode In an embedded Writer OLE object you can connect to further sub OLE objects In current versions of Draw this is possible only if you open the embedded object as a standalone object in Writer Similarly you cannot edit a linked Writer sub OLE object directly in Draw you must open it as a text document in Writer This limitation can be illustrated by the use of formulas Such formulas are technically OLE objects that belong to the Math module To use mathematical formulas inside flowing text save the text in a separate text document and insert it as a linked OLE object in Draw Inserting graphics from a file is however possible within the OLE environment in Writer Object mode Click on an object to enter object mode recognizable by the presence of the green handles In object mode you remain in the Draw module Possibly you noticed that in edit mode there is no Zoom Set the size of the OLE object on the Draw page in Object mode from the Position and Size dialog In the left hand image of Figure 240 the o
57. 113 rotating 116 segments 121 settings 117 3D effects geometry 119 illumination 126 material 131 Shading 123 textures 128 3D effects dialog 117 3D scenes 114 combining objects 134 3D settings for 3D shapes 3D color 134 depth 133 direction 133 illumination 134 surface 134 3D shapes extrusion 114 rotating 117 A add points 51 aging filter 100 aligning objects 85 Alpha channel 102 ambient lighting 128 anchor point 188 anchoring text 184 AND gate 172 arcs 188 Area dialog 65 96 area fill editing 63 arranging objects 41 arrow Styles customizing 60 61 arrows 59 axis intersection point 116 B back send object to 158 background pages 151 Basic Shapes toolbar 114 B zier curves 49 188 linking 197 point mode 197 transition points 198 bitmap fill 68 bitmaps 64 89 94 109 128 black and white printing 109 booklet printing 20 borders editing 57 breaking links 90 brightness 96 bring forward 41 bring to front 83 brochure printing 20 C CAD computer aided design 172 callouts 188 camera field 125 caption type 191 central projection 118 Charcoal sketch 100 close B zier 53 CMYK color model 154 color adjustments 96 Color bar 13 color depth 103 color fill 63 color inversion 98 color negative 98 color options 95 color palette 13 153 color parameters 132 color picker dialog 155 colors number of 106 combining objects 80 combining objects in 3D scenes 134 comments adding 201 connectors
58. 3 Filling with a line pattern Fill with an image You can fill an object with a bitmap image as opposed to a vector graphic image Select the object you wish to edit On the Line and Filling toolbar select Bitmap and then choose an option from the menu 64 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide MMM Slack amp Bitmap o B 14 15 16 17 18 Brownstone Gi Netting Smee Leaves m a S Artificial Turf tre Daisy Orange aul Fiery Hm Roses nL vig a a fe Figure 84 Filling with an image Adding a shadow to an area Click on the Filling icon on the Line and Filling toolbar nekxt to the area fill functions Figure 85 Figure 85 Adding a shadow Advanced area fill options Click on the Area icon lt to bring up the Area dialog From this dialog you can fine tune the area fill of an object in greater detail Creating your own fill color Click on the Colors tab of the Area dialog Figure 86 From here you can modify existing colors or create your own Depending on the color model in use RGB or CMYK can be selected from the pull down menu you can change the individual values of the constituent colors Red Green and Blue or Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black Click on Add to add this color to the color table Clicking on the Modify button will change the values of the current color here it is Blue 8 shown in the upper rectangle to those on the screen in the lower r
59. E E AEE 33 Adadmga ertt OD OCI ei E 35 Chapter 3 Working WIE OCC ES and ODject POE Ses ence ce esctsdevenscneissernepire qiseweeiiarssiebestacteuas 38 Boast esata creed comatose E EE EEEE E AEA ceases 39 Moving and dynamically adjusting an ODjECt S SIZE cece cece eee eeeeeecececesececeeenes 41 Rotating and shearing an object using the MOUSE cccccececececececencececeseneeceeeees 44 Setting size and position IY esac cece tracstadein tere asciacpasdenssneonsienieommracsientacsornesremmeeeannd 46 PE EG E ETER crea eee at I ce IE AEE I E E EE S ETTE 48 Another way to change the form of basic shape sS csscsesssssesresesresreresresesreesseesre 48 Ho e O a E E eran 49 Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes ississirsirrrissisrsisarreersssiriniske siksanira i D NENNE E EEEE 595 Toolbars and Ae TENS cc cars urutanoacceeamanaenschondpucanen ainda AENEAN AE aaa as 56 Polno inie anmi cetaceans tages cowie EE E E OEA REA 37 Editing the inside fill of an ODJECT ccc cceccececececncnceeceeecececscseseceeeeesecesesenees 63 Gos hale Dio 0d cee ee er eee eee wee een AET See eee ere Re ee een er ere eae a 0 E ot ALS Gh Ne eee eee en EE A A nT EI ont er ev ene re Ronee Ree nee eae eee eee ee 72 Chapter 5 Combining Mahtitle ODOC errr nainen n EnaA TEENETE EESE 78 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide 3 Introduction grouping and combining ODJECTS ce cececececececeeeeeeeceseneeseceeenes 79 PT ope oii psd ecco ans bip
60. Export dialog Exporting the entire file The file format options in the upper area of the File format box HTML XHTML PDF and Flash always apply to the complete file Use of Flash or HTML format causes each page of the Draw document to be exported as a raster graphic You will no longer be able to access individual objects on the page 92 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide To export a multi page Draw document as a series of web pages choose File gt Export and select HTML Document as the file type The HTML Export wizard opens Follow the prompts to create the web pages If you wish the wizard can generate a navigation aid to help in moving from page to page If you want to use the objects in other applications select one of the Metafile formats JPEG PNG TIFF BMP and so on in the lower part of the File format list see Figure 120 With this type of export only the currently active page is exported File name testing File format WMF Windows Metafile wmf PCT Mac Pict pct pict PGM Portable Graymap pgm PNG Portable Network Graphic png PPM Portable Pixelmap ppm Se ee RAS Sun Raster Image ras E Selection SVG Scalable Vector Graphics svg SVM StarView Metafile svm TIFF Tagged Image File Format tif tiff WME Windows Metafile wmf APM X PixMap xpm Figure 120 Section of the file selection list Exporting single objects In order to export individual drawing o
61. Load Save Quality gt b Language Settings Default 7 OpenOffice org Draw General Grayscale er Black amp white Print Figure 126 Options OpenOffice org Draw Print Other options are in Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org gt Print see Figure 127 They relate to page options scaling and other printing variables They affect the size of the print file and the time taken to print the document With most modern systems you can simply accept the defaults As different operating systems and printers have their own requirements you need to tailor the settings to your particular site conditions Refer to the Help file for more information Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 109 Options OpenOffice org Print OpenOffice org User Daia Reduce print data General Settings for Printer view ry Printer Print E Reduce transparency irjad Automatically Fonts No transparency Security Appearance E Reduce bitmaps Accessibility Java High print quality Online Update ee I A Improvement Program Normal print quality gt b Load Save Resolution 200 DPI default b Language Settings b OpenOffice org Draw Include transparent objects Figure 127 Options OpenOffice org Print dialog Print to file O Reduce gradients Gradient stripes 64 Intermediate color O Convert colors to grayscale 110 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide OpenOffice org 3 Chapter 7 Work
62. Note border of an object In the Line dialog Figure 69 Arrow styles on the right hand side contains a number of options to fine tune the arrow properties If Synchronize ends is selected both line endings will have the same appearance The Center option places the center of the arrow over the end point of the line If this option is not selected the line ends at the far edge of the arrow The following sketch illustrates the difference Figure 73 Default arrowheads left vs centered arrowheads right Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes 59 Line shadows Lines can have a shadow property associated with them Line Shadow Line Styles Arrow Styles Properties Use shadow RRR OROGaahad ose ob ooaosogocaccopAoasaatooaSad Position s ii i o E d a I Distance 0 30cm a Color Transparency 0 Figure 74 Shadow page of Line dialog Check the box Use shadow to enable this feature The properties shown position distance color and transparency may be independently adjusted to your choice and the results seen in the preview window You can also click on the Filling icon on the Line and Filling toolbar next to the area fill functions to get a basic shadow Customizing line and arrow styles You are not constrained to using the line and arrow styles provided by default in Draw You can modify the styles and create your own Customizing line styles In the Line dialog click on the
63. a of the Draw screen in order to deselect the object Paste from the clipboard to put a copy of the object in its original location and now you have a mirror copy 0 E Figure 100 Making a mirror copy of an object Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes vas Distorting an image There are three tools on the Effects menu that let you drag the corners and edges of an object to distort the image The Distort tool distorts an object in perspective the Set to Circle slant and Set in Circle perspective tools both create a pseudo three dimensional effect The results of using these tools are shown in the following figures Distort an object Select an object and click on the Distort icon Draw will ask if you want to transform the object to a curve This is a necessary step before distortion so click Yes Then you can move the object handles to stretch it The corner handles distort as shown in Figure 101 The midpoint handles distort the figure either horizontally handle on vertical side of figure or vertically handle on horizontal side of figure Figure 101 Distort an image Set in circle perspective m Select an object and click on the Set in Circle perspective icon Draw will ask if you want to transform the object to a curve This is a necessary step before distortion so click Yes Then you can move the object handles to give a pseudo three dimensional perspective 74 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw G
64. able you to change the color style and width of the line drawn or the fill color style and other properties of an object The object must first be selected with a mouse click If the selected object is a text frame the buttons for line style and fill color are changed to Invisible by default You can change them to something else if you want 12 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Text Formatting toolbar When text is selected the Line and Filling toolbar changes to the Text Formatting toolbar which is very similar to the Formatting toolbar in Writer A more detailed explanation of the buttons on this toolbar can be found in Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes Arial v jis W B J UA h l Di q Il Ill Fi lII Di Figure 10 Text Formatting toolbar Color bar To display the Color bar use View gt Toolbars gt Color Bar The toolbar then appears at the bottom of the workspace and displays the current color palette SBEEEEEES RO EN RREO SeSSeeeees BORER COOCRERRRRRCCSROTA Ov Figure 11 Color bar This toolbar lets you rapidly choose the color of the various objects lines areas and 3D effects in your drawing The first box in the panel corresponds to transparency no color Choosing a color palette You can access several specialized color palettes in Draw as well as change individual colors to your own taste This is done using the Area dialog reached by choosing Format gt Area or the pouring c
65. ail For example a radial gradient has a center you can specify Figure 89 Type Radial Centrex 50 Centre Y 50 Type Radial CentreX 25 Centre Y 35 Figure 89 Center option in a radial gradient Figure 90 shows how an ellipsoid gradient is rotated moved vertically and horizontally and the color of the border area varied Type Ellipsoid 7 Type Ellipsoid M M Gradient 1 B Gradient 2 E Gradient 2 Center X 50 GH Gradient 3 Center X 30 D Gradient 3 o E Gradient 4 Center Y 40 B Gradient 5 Center Y 100 B Gradient 5 EY Gradient 6 _ Ba Gradient 6 Angle 90 degrees B Linear blue white Angle 60 degrees Linear blue white B Radial green black Tx MB Radial green black Border 35 7 E Rectangular red white Border fade ina _ __ Square yellow white i From E Yellow M B Linear magenta green From J Yellow I gt __ jj Linear yellow brown 100 gt 100 o EEN to MGreen gt 100 Figure 90 Center Angle and Border options for a gradient Creating your own hatching line pattern On the Area dialog click on the Hatching tab Figure 91 From here you can modify existing hatchings line patterns or create your own Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes 67 You can customize options like the spacing between lines the angle and th
66. ain by selecting Modify gt Split or using the keyboard shortcut Control Alt Shift K The combination can also be broken up into its constituent parts by selecting Modify gt Break These are not an exact equivalent to ungrouping as the objects were converted to B zier curves when they were combined An object which is split will for example have an ellipse converted to a B zier curve A object which is broken will consist of a set of base level objects for example a rectangle will be broken into 4 separate lines and the original formatting line thickness colors and area properties is not retained Connecting lines Lines may be connected by selecting them and using Modify gt Connect The connections established are based on joining the ends of pairs of lines with minimum separation Once a group of lines is connected you can close the remaining gap by selecting the line right clicking and choosing Close Object The resultant object is filled with the default fill If you modified the line properties color weight these are retained in the resulting polygon Merging subtracting or intersecting shapes After you have selected more than one object the Merge Subtract and Intersect functions can be reached in the Modify gt Shapes menu or though the group s right click menu under the heading Shapes Chapter 5 Combining Multiple Objects 81 Merge When you merge objects the new object covers the entire sur
67. aining groups and undoing groups To group objects first select the objects then right click and choose Group from the pop up menu You can also use the keyboard shortcut Control Shift G or choose Modify gt Group from the menu bar When objects are grouped any editing operations carried out on that group are applied to all members of the group If you click on one member of the group the whole group is selected Flip Convert Group Combine Shapes Connect Figure 105 Grouping objects using the right click menu The objects of a group retain their own individual properties To undo a group right click and choose Ungroup from the pop up menu use the keyboard shortcut Control Alt Shift G or choose Modify gt Ungroup from the menu bar Chapter 5 Combining Multiple Objects 79 Editing individual objects in a group You can edit a member of a group individually without breaking the group To do this right click and choose Enter group or double click on the group mm Figure 106 When you enter a group objects outside the group cannot be selected and appear pale Once inside the group click on any object to edit it Figure 107 Editing an object inside a group To leave this mode right click and choose Exit group or double click outside the group Nesting groups You can create nested groups or groups of groups In this case Draw keeps the initial group hierarchy If you ungro
68. ake Oe G hh YJ eorTr Qda 7 EO Figure 50 Some basic shapes with yellow handles 48 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide The mouse pointer changes shape when hovered over a yellow handle If you drag one of these handles you can modify the shape of the object the type of change is dependent on the shape itself For example you can round the corners of a rectangle or square change the angles of an arc or ellipse or alter the control points of a circular or elliptical segment How curves work The editing of curves depends on the mathematics of B zier curves The complete study of such curves goes beyond this scope of this guide and only the basics are covered here Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques provides more information on drawing and manipulating B zier curves The editing of a B zier curve consists in principle of moving points or tangents passing through these points Each tangent has two control points one at each end and a junction point where it meets the curve The relative angle and distance between the control points determine the shape of the curve Figure 51 shows several variations starting from a basic circle and changing only one point on the circle You can create many different shapes by moving either the junction point itself or one or both of the round handle points at either end of the tangent A II Figure 51 Creating different shapes by changing the tangent Draw
69. alette and stored in the currently active palette You can also delete colors from a palette Select the color from the Color pull down menu and click on the Delete button then on OK to confirm the change Area Shadow Transparency Colors Gradients Hatching Bitmaps Properties Name Red 3 Color Mi Red 3 4 Table standard A G co isa f 74 EB o Figure 191 The Colors tab in the Area dialog 154 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Click on the Edit button to open a dialog where you can set individual colors see Figure 192 Many more input possibilities are available in this dialog In the lower area you can enter values in the RGB and CMYK models as well as the HSB Hue Saturation and Brightness model The two color samples at the lower right show the current color left and the new color specified by the color value fields right Hue Saturation w Gk t gt s gt gt gt Brightness oo Figure 192 Color dialog The color windows in the upper area permit a direct selection of color without any knowledge of color values The right upper color window is linked directly with the various color model input fields if you click on a color in this window the numbers Change accordingly and a preview of the color appears in the right of the two color fields lower right in Figure 192 see also Method 2 below If you click OK the color window is closed
70. an icon on the Line and Filling toolbar Figure 9 On the Area dialog choose the Colors tab Figure 12 To load another palette click on the Load Color List button circled The file selector dialog asks you to choose one of the standard OpenOffice org palettes files bearing the file extension soc For example web soc is a color palette that is particularly adapted to creating drawings that are going to appear in Web pages These colors will display correctly on workstations with screens capable of at least 256 colors A more detailed description of color palettes and their options can be found in Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks Chapter 1 Introducing Draw 13 Area Shadow Transparency Colors Gradients Hatching Bitmaps Properties Name Blue amp Color C Blue amp Table standard fF Ett TT ae se 7 HES SH TTT it tT oi TT Lie SEE _tt titi PMM TT nDT Figure 12 Changing the color palette Options toolbar The Options toolbar lets you activate or deactivate various drawing aids The Options Bar is not one of the toolbars displayed by default To display it select View gt Toolbars gt Options Options o _ ees ere Sel ony Figure 13 Options toolbar pans The options are described in the table below and in greater detail in other chapters of the Draw Guide Table 1 Functions on the Options toolbar Icon Function Rotation mode aft
71. and size of graphics or rotate them using the methods described in Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points Raster graphics can be flipped Modify gt Flip but note that some Metafile formats might have problems flipping text Graphics included as a member of a group behave like other drawing objects when the properties of the group are modified It is a good idea to re name the graphic using Name from the Modify menu or the context menu Only named objects are visible in the Navigator and only named objects can be directly imported from another file The picture editing toolbar If you have enabled the Picture toolbar in View gt Toolbars it will automatically appear on the screen whenever you select a bitmap picture see Figure 122 It appears either directly under the menu bar in place of the formatting toolbar or asa floating toolbar elsewhere on the screen Picture 7 x No peu v Soa e A Aml Figure 122 The Picture toolbar The following table explains the individual functions on the Picture toolbar and illustrates their use with examples uh Opens the Filter toolbar which is described in The graphic Filter filter toolbar on page 98 Graphics Mode Use the Graphics mode menu to change the display of the graphic from normal color to grayscale black and white ora Standard s watermark This setting affects only the display and printing of the picture the picture itself remains unchanged
72. ar If you press the Shift key while resizing an object the change in size will Note be carried out symmetrically with respect to the two axes so that the aspect ratio of the object remains the same 42 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide This is the default behavior of the Shift key However if you have used Caution Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt Grid to set Snap position to When creating or moving objects the action of the Shift key is the A opposite the aspect ratio will be preserved unless the Shift key is pressed Dynamic size modification of objects with the help of the Status bar If you select an object and modify it using the mouse the changes are immediately reflected in the information field of the status bar With geometric shapes such as basic shapes symbol shapes block arrows the only information shown in the status bar is that the shape is being resized as shown in the top left image in Figure 40 With geometric elements rectangles circles and so on the changes to the attributes of the element either relative or absolute are also shown as in the top right image in Figure 40 1 Layout Controls Dimension Lines Resize Shape Resize Rectangle n 86 y 75 ic 0 20 8 8 Adjust angle by Elliptical arc 279 287 Dx 0 59 dy 0 98 6 16 3 08 ict 6 30 10 1 Figure 40 The Information field during dynamic size modification of objects In the case of a rectangle the new size is sh
73. arency for a uniform transparency or Gradient for a gradient transparency Area Shadow Transparency Colors Gradients Hatching Bitmaps Transparency mode Transparency 50 Gradient Type 50 505 Angle 0 degrees Border 0 aa Start value 0 End value 100 Figure 96 Transparency page of Area dialog An example of gradient transparency is shown in Figure 97 See also Dynamic gradients on page 76 Figure 97 Example of gradient transparency 70 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Using styles Suppose that you want to apply the same area fill line thickness and border to a set of objects This repetitive process can be greatly simplified by the use of styles Styles allow you to define a formatting template a style and then to apply that style to multiple objects For more about styles see Chapter 6 Introduction to Styles in the Writer Guide Click on the Styles and Formatting E icon on the Line and Filling toolbar or press the F11 key to open the Styles and Formatting window Figure 98 This window can be docked to the left or right side of the main Draw window if you wish Styles and Formatting x Dimension Line First line indent Heading Headingl Heading Object with arrow Object with shadow Object without fill Text Text body Text body justified Title Titlel Title2 All Styles Figure 98 Styles and Formatting window Creating a new style Select an object a
74. arrange the objects with respect to each other Here we explore some of the more important ones Moving an object to the front or to the back When you combine or merge objects the end result varies drastically depending on which object is in front and which one is behind In Figure 110 you can see the difference Figure 110 Subtracting objects the result varies depending on which object is in front If you imagine several objects stacked one on top of the other the one referred to as Front is the one on top of the stack The one referred to as Back is the one on the very bottom of the stack First select an object then on the Drawing toolbar long click on the Arrange icon E to open the Position toolbar This toolbar can be torn off and made to float Chapter 5 Combining Multiple Objects 83 Position x P E E Be 123 45 6 7 1 Bring to Front 5 In Front of Object 2 Bring Forward 6 Behind Object 3 Send Backward 7 Reverse 4 Send to Back Figure 111 The floating Position toolbar ff brings the selected object to the front of the group gt fi brings the selected object one step forwards x sends the selected object one step backwards E T sends the selected object to the back of the group R Ch moves the selected object in front of another chosen object f moves the selected object behind another chosen object Click first on the object you
75. aths and typical boxes that you will use in drawing the chart Ce Figure 200 Draft with snap lines Place and dimension the individual boxes according to the size of the overall chart The exact size particularly width position and color will be fixed later It is sometimes easier to draw only one box per level later you can copy and paste this box and then move the copies to the desired positions Using styles can also be helpful see the relevant section in Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes You can also select one or more boxes and use Edit gt Duplicate to make copies see Figure 201 The spacing of the duplicated objects relative to the original can be controlled using the placement fields for the X and Y axes Note that positive values for X and Y are to the right and downwards from the original object 160 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Duplicate Cancel l X axis g C Help O ar wah a al ae Se a ade Help Y axis Default Angle Enlargement Placement Width AE aac oes ETE eee Ren Colors hares ET OEA Start End Figure 201 Duplicating an object Which replication technique you use is up to you The draft for the example in this chapter should look similar to that in Figure 202 The next step is to add text to the boxes It is easiest to insert it as a text element _ within the box as described in Chapter 2
76. ayout BR mM eT Lhe 0Ha Rectangle selected 71 00 24 00 24 7 00 x 3 00 Slide 1 1 Object information Position Dimensions Figure 39 Left end of status bar during dynamic adjustment For example when you are resizing an object the object information fields show which object is selected the current position in X Y coordinates and object dimensions width x height The information changes as the mouse is moved The units of measurement are those selected under Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt General Dynamic movement of objects To move an object select it and then click within the object s border and hold down the left mouse button while dragging the mouse During movement the shape of the object appears as dotted lines to help with repositioning To drop the object at its new location release the mouse button The new position appears immediately in the Status Bar Dynamic size modification of objects To change the size of a selected object or a group of selected objects with the mouse move one of the handles located around the selection As shown in the illustration the outline of the Gi resulting new object appears as a dotted line while the mouse button is pressed The results depend on which handle you use To resize an object TOE eat along one axis use the appropriate side handle To resize along both axes use a corner handle The new size appears immediately in the status b
77. bject was inserted at the original size in the right hand image the size was reduced If you change the size take care that the option Keep ratio is checked or else the object will become distorted Line and Area properties are not available for OLE objects nor is it possible to rotate objects as with text frames The most common typing mistakes The most common typing mistakes include include ee fia ae letters Exchanging tow letters a or making the first two letters CApitals Figure 240 Zoom vs resizing of an OLE Writer object OLE objects can be overlaid just like other drawing objects In Figure 241 a drawing object from the basic shapes menu has been placed behind the OLE object 194 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Figure 241 Draw object behind an OLE object The page with the text document has the background property set to transparent If you Change the background color of the OLE object in Edit mode it will also show in the Draw document The Format menu has the entries Area and Line grayed out because they are not usable but the menu entries Paragraph Character Text and Bullets and Numbering are all available These relate not to the text object which you are currently editing but rather to a separate independent text element within the object which you can open by pressing F2 This is similar to the way that pictures are linked with an OLE object The double click which opens the text elemen
78. bjects you first need to select them A selection can include more than one object Take care to choose the Selection option on the Export dialog Exporting as a vector graphic The choice of vector formats is still limited An export to a DXF format file Autocad is not yet possible Even the export of a graphic to a SVG format file is not yet fully implemented 2D graphic objects are exported as paths and 3D objects only as preview images Best supported are the Metafile formats and exporting to one of these is usually successful Exporting as a raster graphic The choice of formats for export as a raster graphic is large enough to support most other applications In case of doubt test different formats to see which gives the best results some programs behave differently depending on the format of the image imported into them After typing in a name for the exported file and selecting the file format you may be able to set options for the exported image compression color format version of Metafile depending on the format chosen Some examples of the various option dialogs are shown in Figure 121 Where the export dialog allows you to specify the image resolution this does not affect the number of raster points in the image Rather it inserts information into the picture that tells other programs the dimensions to be used in displaying the image This means that among other things missing raster points can be interpolated when th
79. bols in the drawing all the connection leads will be straight lines At this time you can delete all the guiding lines add text to the drawing and your finished drawing should resemble Figure 222 on page 177 Dimensioning a drawing Configuring the dimensioning style As is usual with Draw you configure dimensioning using a style After opening a drawing press F11 to access the Styles and Formatting window In the Graphic Styles list right click on the style Dimension Line and select Modify The dialog that opens contains the current settings Click the Dimensioning tab Figure 228 Graphics Styles Dimension Line lt x Shadowing Transparency Font Font Effect Indents amp Spacing Text Dimensioning Connector Alignment Tabs Organizer Line Area Text Animation Line Legend Line distance fo 80cm Text position E 5 Guide overhang 0 20cm 5 i aa ae i S 5 Guide distance 0 10cm E i x AutoVertical Left guide 0 00cm Lal 3 AutoHorizontal Right guide 0 00cm X Parallel to line _ Measure below object x Show meas units Decimal places 2 Automatic
80. carried out using a graphics style Right click on the picture and choose Edit Style to open the Graphics Styles dialog Figure 232 You may first wish to choose a different style to edit for the picture or create a new style for a special purpose For more about styles see Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes If you store the picture using File gt Export the text is exported along with the graphic If you use the context menu option Save as Picture then the text is not exported Fontwork Gallery Click the icon to open the Fontwork Gallery Figure 236 which you can use to insert an eye catching caption to an image Fontwork drawing objects belong to the shape category The Gallery contains a selection of popular text forms Fontwork Gallery Select a Fontwork style pest Fonto Figure 236 The Fontwork Gallery You are not limited to these samples you can subsequently edit and customize the chosen caption type Proceed as follows Choose a caption type from the Gallery and click E a OK The caption is then inserted into the middle of your document 0 f WOL a Use the green handles to drag and resize the caption Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 191 Double click to enter text editing mode and replace the placeholder text Fontwork with your own text Click outside the object or press the Esc key to leave editing mode With the Area dialog from the Format menu or the context menu
81. ce org you can place the toolbar on the Draw window wherever you wish and you can configure toolbars as you wish by adding moving hiding or deleting toolbar icons Custom shapes Draw 3 offers the ability to create custom shapes These correspond to autoshapes in Microsoft Office The two types of shapes differ in their properties and are dealt with separately in the relevant chapter of this guide The main differences relate to the behavior of 3D objects and text handling Beginners can safely ignore both for the present Text frames in Draw 3 have their own geometric format Drawing basic shapes Basic shapes include e Lines e Arrows e Rectangles and squares e Ellipses and circles e Curves and polygons e Connectors e Lines and arrows When you draw a basic shape or select one for editing the Information field in the status bar changes to reflect the action taken or in progress Line created Text frame xxyy selected TextEdit Paragraph 1 Row 1 Column 8 and so on Note Figure 19 shows part of the Drawing toolbar with the icons needed in the following sections The Text icon is also included 7 gt EE T hrer Figure 19 Part of the Drawing toolbar Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes 25 Drawing a straight line We begin with the drawing of the simplest element a straight line Click on the Line icon on the Drawing toolbar and place the mouse pointer at the point where you want to start the line see Fi
82. classic object has the same slant or shear applied to it particularly when the mouse is used to create the effect Note The slant axis is the point directly opposite the midpoint handle to be used for Shearing the object This point stays fixed in location the other sides and edges move in relation to it as the mouse is dragged make sure that the icon is showing before dragging Figure 43 shows how the vertices move in relation to each other during the shearing process The circles represent the path of the vertices The inclination axis is the bottom vertex of the triangle the slanting handle used is the midpoint of the upper enclosing frame All points on the figure will move through the same angle irrespective of the final shape The actual angle is shown in the status bar Figure 43 Shearing an object The triangle in Figure 43 was produced with the unfilled polygon tool Note and then Close Object was selected from the context menu This tool can be used to produce perspective drawings The series of pictures in Figure 44 shows the method of constructing a cuboid or rectangular prism To Shorten the edges leading from front to back reduce the length before you distort the height or width of the surface Lhe Y gt a 4 4 4 z i z i z i 7 z z z 7 o gt ty Figure 44 Perspective production of a cuboid As with rotation you can make the slanting occur in steps o
83. cted Right click and enter the group You will see that as usual elements that do not belong to the group are less bright Use Edit gt Paste Now the objects not the whole scene from the clipboard are pasted into this scene The original position of the sphere now contains a new sphere that belongs to the scene This new Sphere can be dragged over to the cone Exit the group after moving the sphere Notice that combining 3D objects results in them being more or less fused together there is no stacking or layering as with 2D objects Adjust the position of the objects as you wish You cannot arrange objects in front or behind others as with 2D objects but can only move them parallel to the drawing plane Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects 135 Enter the group again and adjust the objects The status bar indicates which object is marked Use the Tab key to change from one object to the next in the group if it is not possible to do so with the mouse Exit the group Now you can rotate the entire 3D scene and view your game piece from all sides Examples for your own experiments All examples use objects in 3D scenes Extruding a 2D object with text generates letters as separate objects and they have a larger extrusion depth than the background 3D objects of the Shape type can be rendered as wireframe models This effect can be produced in other 3D objects by setting the Area fill to None and the line
84. d dimension units contained in Tools gt Options gt Draw gt General If you set a scale of 1 10 anda unit of centimeter then a 6 cm long object in the drawing will be shown with a dimension of 60 cm when the option Show meas unit is activated and the selection window is set to Automatic Deselecting this option turns off the display of units You can change the units displayed from Centimeters to for example Millimeters by choosing Millimeter instead of Automatic in the selection window Adjust the font type and size for the text of a dimension line by means of the Text tab The Standard button at the bottom of the dialog sets all the properties of the dimension line to the inherited standard properties of the style The dimensioning style Dimension Line is always linked and stored with the current work page All the changes that you make apply only to this Note page New drawings are started with the standard properties of Draw If you want to use the amended style for future drawings save the page as an additional template Dimensioning objects In this exercise you will dimension some logic blocks see Figure 229 They are used here to demonstrate the technique you can use your own drawing or fetch a picture from the Gallery Figure 229 Dimensioned logic blocks So that Draw can clearly recognize the edges to be measured you should set a number of guide lines delineating the edges The previous sections expla
85. d the drawing with a double click Just release the mouse button and the drawing is completed If you have selected Freeform Line Filled the end point is joined automatically to the start point and the object is filled with the appropriate color Gluepoints and connectors basics Gluepoints All Draw objects have associated invisible gluepoints which become visible when you le choose any of the connectors under the Connectors icon on the Drawing toolbar and then move the mouse pointer over the object Most objects have four gluepoints as shown in Figure 28 You can add more gluepoints and customize gluepoints using the toolbar of the same name Figure 29 Shes eee eee fob eae E Figure 28 Four gluepoints Gluepoints x FE Gt A E Figure 29 Gluepoints toolbar Gluepoints are not the same as the little blue or green handles of an object The handles are for moving or changing the shape of an object as described in Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points but the gluepoints are used to glue a connector to an object For a more detailed description of the use of gluepoints see Chapter 9 Organization Charts Flow Diagrams and More Connectors Connectors are lines or arrows whose ends automatically dock to a gluepoint of an object Connectors are especially useful in drawing organization charts flow diagrams and mind maps Even when objects are moved or reordered the connectors remai
86. dy seem more illuminated When textures are used as well the Illumination color is combined with the white color part of the texture On the left the object has a black Illumination color on the right bright green The Specular color simulates the reflecting capacity of the surface The position of the illuminated point is determined by the setting of the first light source Left Set the Specular color the same as the object color and the illumination point intensity to a low value in order to give the impression of a matt body Right Set the Illumination point color the same as the light source color in order to give a shiny appearance to the object surface Metallic surfaces and glass are not so well simulated because the impression of these materials is produced through reflection Such simulation cannot at the moment be calculated by OpenOffice org 3D settings for 3D shapes 3D shapes are handled quite differently from objects in 3D scenes The appearance of a shape object is changed using the 3D Settings toolbar see Figure 166 The 3D Effects dialog described above should not be used for shape objects as it will not give the correct formatting results 132 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide _D Settings FFORDE E Figure 166 3D Settings toolbar indicating icons for formatting 3D shapes If you have used it in error you can remove the incorrect formatting with Format gt Default Formatting With
87. e 118 Inserting complete pages or objects on a page Choose the slides or objects you want to insert for multiple selections press the Control or Shift key while clicking on the items Click OK to insert the selected items If the inserted object was named in the source document it keeps its original name unless the name already exists in the current document In that case you must give the object a new name before it is inserted To rename an inserted object right click and choose Name from the pop up menu Renaming has the advantage that the object is then listed in the Navigator You can choose whether to embed or link the selected page or object Exporting graphics Draw saves drawings by default in the ODG format Some programs cannot open these files To use the drawings in other programs you can export the graphics in various formats Choose File gt Export and then in the File format pull down list select the desired format see Figure 119 i C File format HTML Document OpenOffice org Draw html htm HTML Document OpenOffice org Draw html htm XHTML html xhtml PDF Portable Document Format pdf Automatic file nan Macromedia Flash SWF swf E Selection BMP Windows Bitmap bmp EMF Enhanced Metafile emf EPS Encapsulated PostScript eps GIF Graphics Interchange Format gif JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group jpg jpeq jfif jif jpe Figure 119 Lower part of the
88. e color of the lines There is no way to edit the line thickness Area Shadow Transparency Colors Gradients Hatching Bitmaps Properties spacing 0 10cn ra Black 45 degrees a E3 Black 45 degrees Angle Black 90 degrees ire tamil gesses Red crossed 45 degrees o lapes E Red crossed 0 degrees Blue crossed 45 degrees gt Blue crossed 0 degrees m F Blue triple 90 degrees Black 45 degrees wide Line type Single lwe Line color Figure 91 Modifying hatchings Creating your own bitmap fill Delete You can add your own bitmap images to fill an area First you need to create the bitmap image This could be a photo or another sketch you have created in another program For example you can draw something with Draw and export it as a PNG format image file To export a PNG image file Create the image select it then choose File gt Export choose PNG from the pull down list of file formats give the file a name and save it To use an image as a bitmap fill open the Area dialog and click on the Bitmaps tab Figure 92 Area Shadow Transparency Colours Gradients Hatching Bitma ps Propertes Mercury fame Gravel ea Wall a Brownstone ersam Netting ESRR Leaves ea Artificial Turf Daisy eee Orange Figure 92 Adding your own bitmap images Import Delete 68 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide From there y
89. e graphic is opened in the other program Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 93 EPS Export Options Beciicin JPEG Options Image preview TIFF cal ai Whether the PS file should se aac ve have a TIFF image preview 5 cea ae Cancel Color resolution amp J a O Level 1 Choose the quality of the Peal exported image 1 is worst on 100 is best BMP Options True Colors Level 2 Color resolution Original Cancel Mode Help Original Resolution 3 2 Choose a value from the pull down list for image resolution Figure 121 Adjusting format specific properties prior to export The actual number of pixels used is determined by the screen resolution set up by the operating system and the Drawing scale factor set in Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt General This is a limitation of the current user interface it is possible to set other resolutions using macros Embedded raster graphics or objects that have been converted to a bitmap or Metafile from the context menu Convert gt To Bitmap To Metafile may subsequently be saved as a picture from the context menu choose Save as Picture This saves the picture without Draw specific additions such as text elements borders or Shadows and without the possibility of setting any of the o
90. e of the drawn object 50 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Figure 56 Moving a junction point Figure 57 Rotating a tangent Figure 58 Adding an edit point to a curve ai The Move Points button is the default mode when editing points If it has not been activated click on its button When this mode is active the mouse pointer has the following shape when it is hovered over an edit point O Movement of a point is one of the easiest manipulations to do Figure 56 illustrates how you can draw an egg very easily by starting from a circle and dragging the top point upwards To change the direction or location of the tangents move the circular handles at each end The mouse pointer then looks like this FE Use the Points button to add an extra edit point to an existing curve Click on the curve at the spot where you want to insert a point and then move the mouse slightly in any direction while holding down the button Caution If you just click the new point will not be A added The tangent attributes associated with the new point depend on the buttons that are selected on the toolbar Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points 51 on Figure 59 Deleting points from a curve ye oe Figure 60 Cutting a Figure 61 Moving a segment i The Delete Points button has the opposite effect it subtracts one or more points from the curve The resulting curve stretches i
91. ease the mouse button the curve is complete Normal view gt Point mode Cy 200 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Combining closed curves If you draw a B zier curve segment and at the end point of the segment click and hold the mouse button followed by a single press of the Alt key the curve is closed with a straight line and you are placed in Combining mode You can now begin a second curve at an arbitrary point Ending the drawing with a double click also closes this curve If you end it with an Alt click as described above you can draw further curves The curves that you have just drawn form a common object a so called Combination You can use this for example to place holes in filled curves If you want to bind two curves together into a Combination at some stage select both curves and use Modify gt Combine Even if you use a Combination the individual curves are still available as objects You can use Modify gt Split to convert the Combination back to single objects You can create Combinations only from closed curves Other objects such as rectangles or polygons will be automatically transformed into curves and curves that are not closed will be closed with a straight line Connecting curves To join curves together select them and use Modify gt Connect A connection is only possible with open curves If you use this tool on closed curves they are first opened and an additional end point inserted at the star
92. ectangle The Edit button allows you to fine tune the color using a palette with visual feedback Further explanation about color palettes can be found in Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes 65 Area Shadow Transparency Colors Gradients Hatching Bitmaps Properties Name clr Table standard Eee eee E E Enn T DERTTEN HN A L _ E BEEE EET EE LU M m ERRANT Figure 86 Customizing the color palette ir Creating your own gradient On the Area dialog click on the Gradients tab From here you can modify existing gradients or create your own Area Shadow Transparency Colors Gradients Hatching Bitmaps Froperties Type Linear w Gradient 1 O BBB Gradient 2 Center X k D Gradient 3 LB Gradient 4 Center Y i D Gradient 5 BEI Gradient 6 Angle Linear blue white i MS Radial green black P Rectangular red white a E Square yellow white From ack Linear magenta oreen E aa n i oee L Linear yellow brown Figure 87 Customizing gradients A gradient works by creating a smooth transition from one color to another First you need to choose two colors Figure 88 66 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Figure 88 Choosing colors for a gradient Then choose a type of gradient There are several available Linear Axial Radial and so on and each has up to four different options to specify it in det
93. ed acetone vanes an ueaoetenendaxenens 79 Boueale yh Whale ola E r te nee hatte enn eee AA een ee eee ne ee ren eee eee ee ree 80 Merging subtracting or intersecting sh ape sS sssessssrssesresesresresereseeeseersreeseeseeesee 81 Alds Ior positioning ODOC ueneno irin en OEE E EE EEE 83 Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics oerisisssssrrisrirreesorenitinindak Ennon u CA U AENA KE EAr Okin 88 MT FE a NEE A IEN AII E E O S AAA SES A EAE E O ATR 89 Importing raster and vector graphiCcsS eessssesesessesreseesesreressesresersesesseseeseeseesseeseeesee 89 ESO T O a A T A E A 92 Modifying raster object properties ssssssssresessesessesresrsresessessererersseeseerereesereseeeee 95 Tbe piciure diting Par secs ah ngozeececcuna ncnteodcoe dain EEEE RERE EREE EEEREN 95 aaa a cree ps EA A E E pee poe TE O A ene eine eee 97 The graphic Oter tOo eeraeri niir EAEE EAEE 98 Changing colors using the CYECLrOpPEelL ccceccecececscscsecececececscneneceeeseensesecesenen 101 T ceva ns te anes e osa en cena ieaaa TE 105 Print options with raster graphiCS cscs cece tarten tases tein tridan a anaidia ariaa aa 109 Chapter 7 Vorkingd WII SD ODJ EC esee S 111 Bre E BA S e EEE E E IAI T E ETIO E A T 112 PE o D ODOC enian A EEN RETE ERE 116 Combining objects in 3D SCeEneS ssssssesesessesecsreresresrsserersessersreeseeeseersreesreeseeeseet 134 Chapter 8 Te aO I E E EE E EE N A E ESS 138 Positioning objects with ZOOM
94. ed toolbars Untitled 1 OpenOffice org Draw File Edit View Insert Format Tools Modify Window Help ei m eA ib amp m Ar owl poom FI ma Figure 15 Moving a docked toolbar When you double click on an icon on a floating toolbar the command corresponding to that icon will run You can then repeat this action as Tip often as you like To exit from this mode press the Esc key or click on another icon for example This may not work for every icon on every toolbar 16 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Customizing toolbars You can customize toolbars in several ways To show or hide icons defined for a toolbar see Figure 6 on page 12 To add functions to a toolbar move tools between toolbars or create new toolbars choose View gt Toolbars gt Customize select the Toolbars tab Figure 16 and the toolbar you want to change and then select the desired buttons for that toolbar Menus Keyboard Toolbars Events OpenOffice org Draw Toolbars Toolbar Toolbar Content Commands ZM Load URL 4 New New Document From Templat 2 Open Save eI save As Document as E mail Fdit File save In Description Loads a document specdfied by an entered URL You can type a new URL or select one that is already registered OpenOffice org automatically converts file paths into URL notation Figure 16 Customizing a toolbar Fach toolbar has a different list of functions For details see Chapter 14 Cus
95. em as well The first step is to draw a base element an AND gate block You can then dimension and detail this element use the Position and Size dialog as shown in Figure 216 double click on the status bar or context menu to help with dimensioning For this example the left upper corner of the block is at x 10 mm and y 5 mm Position and Size Position and Size Rotation Slant amp Corner Radius Position Position X 40 00mm a Position 5 00mm Size Width 8 00mm Height 8 00mm X Keep ratio Figure 216 Positioning and dimensioning a Draw object 172 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Draw the first connection lead by eye and dimension and position it using the Position and Size dialog Position and Size Position and Size Rotation Slant amp Corer Radius Position Base point Position X 10 00mm i _ a C Position Y 6 50mm LIJ z z Size Base point Width 5 00mm 2 i a4 a C Height 0 01mm es X Keep ratio Figure 217 Setting the position and dimension of the upper input Use the same method to draw the remaining two leads For positioning the input leads fix the right end points for the output lead fix the left one The first wire lies 1 5 mm below the upper edge of the block The leads have a 5 mm spacing between them The following table shows the relevant coordinates of the up
96. ent distances to the object and different color and transparency effects can be created In the Camera field of the shading dialog the settings of the virtual camera can be changed These settings relate only to the view in central projection and apply to the entire 3D scene The Distance parameter is used to adjust the spacing between the camera and scene The default value for an extruded body is equal to the depth or length of the body With equal length edges front and rear the effect at large distances is quite small The standard value of Focal length is 10cm It has the same significance as with a real camera Larger focal lengths simulate a telephoto lens smaller ones a wide angle lens The effect that changes in the camera settings have on an object are shown in Figure 154 A H Figure 154 Effect of camera settings Chapter 7 Working with 35D Objects 125 Picture a shows a 3D object with the standard settings The individual changes are listed in the following table a b C d Distance 0 81 cm 3 81 cm 0 81 cm 0 81 cm Focal length 10 cm 10 cm 5 cm 15 cm 3D Effects Illumination On the Illumination page see Figure 155 you define how a 3D object is lit The settings apply to all objects in a scene C R 204 G 204 B 20 art Figure 155 Illumination lighting page You can light a scene with a maximum of eight individual Light sources at the same time For each of these sources t
97. er clicking object Display or hide the grid m Display or hide the guides leq Display or hide guides when moving 14 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Icon Function Snap to grid Snap to guides Snap to page margins Snap to object borders Snap to object points Allow quick editing Select text area only Double click to edit text Large handles Modify object with attributes ina e Simple handles Exit all groups Drawing grid and guides Draw offers a grid as a drawing aid The grid can be turned on or off by clicking on the Grid icon on the Options toolbar The points of the grid displayed on the screen are not shown on the printed drawing The color spacing and resolution of the grid points can be individually chosen for each axis This is described in more detail in Chapter 8 in the section titled Configuring the grid Guides are special helper lines that can be turned on or off by clicking on the Guides icon on the Options toolbar Draw offers a Snap function with which you can place drawings exactly on these guides or on a grid point a page margin or a border or point of another object All snap functions are described in detail in Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks Showing the position of the object while moving it makes positioning the object much easier If the Guides function is activated pairs of vertical
98. es Style Style Color Width Width fl Center E Center 0 00cm E Synchronize ends Transparency Corner style E Style Rounded v Figure 69 Line dialog right click on an object and choose Line Common line properties In most cases the property you want to change is the line s style solid dashed invisible and so on its color or its width These options are all available from the Line and Filling toolbar Line and Filling Figure 70 Common line options style width color You can also edit these properties from the Line dialog They are on the first tab left column see Figure 69 From the Line dialog you can also change the line s transparency Figure 71 illustrates different degrees of transparency Figure 71 The vertical lines have different levels of transparency 0 25 and 50 58 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Drawing arrows Arrowheads and other line endings usually referred to in this guide collectively as arrows are a line property Select a line and click on the Arrow Style icon This opens the Arrowheads menu Arrowheads j i E E m ee _ lt a gt lt _ SS i 6 6 o Figure 72 Arrowheads menu There are several types of arrowheads available Each end of the line can have a different arrowhead or no arrowhead Arrowheads are only applicable to lines They have no effect on the
99. everses inverts the colors of an image so that it appears as a color negative of the image O Smooth reduces the contrast between neighboring pixels and produces a slight lack of sharpness If you use the filter several times in a row the effect will be strengthened 98 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide A Sharpen increases the contrast between neighboring pixels emphasizing the brightness difference This will accentuate the outlines The effect will be strengthened if you apply the filter several times in a row 2 Remove noise compares every pixel with its neighbors and replaces the ii extreme values those that deviate in color by a large amount from a mean value by a pixel with a mean color value The amount of picture information does not increase but because there are fewer contrast changes our brains can better recognize the resulting graphic This filter tends to make the picture also a little more smooth ia Solarization was originally a photochemical effect If the location of a photograph is extremely highly lit you can experience a reversal of color and brightness Similarly entry of light during the developing process reverses the brightness values These phenomena were used for artistic production of pictures With this filter you input a threshold brightness value above which the color values are reversed middle picture threshold value 70 With the Invert option the whole of the resulting
100. f 15 by pressing the Shift key while moving the handle Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points 45 Setting size and position exactly You can position and resize objects with the mouse but this method is not very exact If you need accurate positioning of objects use Format gt Position and Size from the menu bar or right click the object and select Position and Size from the context menu or press F4 Position and Size Open the Position and Size dialog see Figure 45 and click on the first tab to set the appropriate values gt Position and Size Position and Size Rotation Slant amp Corner Radius Position Base point Position X 1 41m i 2 r C Position Y 14 17cm C 2 Size Width 10 07cm s anil 2 2 Height T 820m l A p 4 Keep ratio Protect Position Size Figure 45 Position and size of an object Position is defined as an X Y coordinate relative to a fixed point the base point typically located at the upper left of the drawing area If desired you can temporarily change this base point to make positioning or dimensioning simpler click on the radio button corresponding to the location of the base point in either of the two selection windows on the right side of the dialog upper for positioning or lower for dimensioning The possible base point positions correspond to the handles on the selection frame plus a central point The change in pos
101. f all these tools is similar to that of the Rectangle tool even Tip though they produce different geometric shapes Basic shapes The Basic Shapes icon makes available a range of tools for drawing basic shapes including a rectangle tool identical to the one on the main toolbar The only differences you will see are in the information field in the status bar in this case Shape selected rather than Rectangle selected Symbol shapes The Symbol Shapes icon gives you an array of tools for drawing various symbols Block arrows The Block Arrows icon opens the Block Arrows Basic Shapes x nan F a GALRVWOS F Oa Symbol Shapes X EDAT e o FLJ Of 08 Block Arrows nad X eo dte toolbar Sb n 3 BSB da Goes E OA rT Ss 34 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Flowcharts The tools for drawing flowcharts are accessed by clicking on the Flowcharts icon a The creation of flowcharts organization charts and Similar planning tools are described in Chapter 9 Organization Charts Flow Diagrams and More Callouts Use the Callouts icon g to open the Callouts toolbar Stars and banners These tools are associated with the Stars icon wT Flowchart x E e EE rE SER E u aiou p xe AV ED e 08 Callouts X wees OF ET Stars and Banners X hat Wo ORS ye Be 2 ES Q You can add text to all these shapes See Using text elements in Draw objects on pa
102. face of the original objects it is the union of the objects In the same way as combining the fill of the merged object is determined by the fill of the object furthest in the background Other properties are not taken over into the new object Subtract When you subtract the front object is subtracted from the 7 object behind it Intersect When you intersect two objects you get only the area covered by both objects Tip For more information on moving objects to the front or back see page 83 Practical example The following example shows how you can use the merge functions to create a complex shape a knife with a wooden handle 1 Draw an ellipse and then a rectangle overlapping half of its width 2 Select both shapes right click and choose Shapes gt Subtract from the pop up menu The result should resemble the shape to the right lt a 3 Draw another rectangle and put it over the top half of the ellipse Then Subtract again 82 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Sh apes Merge Connect Subtract Capy Paste 4 Draw a small ellipse covering just the lower right corner and subtract again gt a 5 The knife blade is now complete To make the handle draw a rectangle and an ellipse as shown SS 6 Merge the shapes together gt es 7 Group this image with the previous one T Aids for positioning objects Draw has various tools to help you
103. fice org 3 3 Draw Guide A a Spherical The enclosing sphere is calculated for the object and then projected onto the object This form of calculation produces an object with a smoother surface the edges of individual segments are more smoothly rounded than with the Object specific effect see Figure 150 However surfaces that meet at a point do not show a realistic lighting effect Invert Normals This results in a reversal of the lighting direction The inside of the body then becomes the outside This property is particular to each individual object Double sided illumination The lighting is also computed for the inside of the object In other cases the lighting value for the outside is simply transferred to the inner side This property is of interest for open objects It is a property of the 3D scene and affects all objects in the scene Figure 150 Cylinder with 10 segments a Object specific b Flat c Spherical The following table shows the linkage between double sided illumination and inverted normals The light source is on the Normals right not inverted Normals inverted No double sided illumination With double sided illumination 3D Effects Shading The Shading page offers functions for shading the object surface adding shadows and choosing camera settings Shading is a rendering method involving a consideration of lighting ratios which is used to produce curved 3D surfaces The surfaces are
104. formations The first two buttons correspond to the menu commands Modify gt Convert gt To 3D To 3D Rotation Object When the Effects dialog for a 3D object is called up these buttons are inactive Selecting a 2D object activates them The third icon switches a perspective view of the object on or off Converts the selected 2D object to an extrusion body Converts the selected 2D object to a rotation body Switches between a central projection and a perspective projection With a central projection parallel edges are shown as meeting at some common point in the distance as shown on the button symbol Parallel projection retains all parallel edges as parallel a procedure often used to produce oblique figures in school The switching process is carried out on the entire 3D scene With central projection see Figure 140 Draw creates the object with three vanishing points The parameters for central projection are set indirectly through the camera settings on the Shading dialog page Figure 140 Figure shown using central projection For clarity the projection lines have been added 118 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide 3D Effects Geometry On the Geometry page you can make changes to the geometry of a 3D object This page is opened with the Geometry button m in the upper part of the 3D Effects dialog 10 Yo fale ele fel Le 100 o 360 0 degree s 1 00cm Horizontal Figure 141 Geometry page
105. g in complete folders or individual files the procedure is self evident from the dialog windows that open or see Chapter 14 Working with the Gallery in the Getting Started guide You can drag and drop Draw objects straight into the Gallery The Properties window can be closed after typing in the name First select the destination folder then click on the first symbol that you wish to add to the Gallery Position the mouse cursor Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 175 inside the selection frame of the symbol When the crossed arrows are visible click on the symbol and keep the mouse button pressed After about 1 or 2 seconds the cursor will briefly blink and change to the drag symbol Drag the object into the Gallery and release the mouse button When you move the mouse into the Gallery field the cursor shape changes once more see Figure 221 g m lt i m gt m m Figure 221 Crossed arrows gt Drag symbol gt Gallery symbol Ti Zoom in on very small graphics before you try to move them so that the Ip crossed arrow symbol can be clearly seen When you have placed all the symbols in the Gallery they can be titled Right click on a symbol choose Title from the menu and type the symbol name AND OR The symbol library is available to all OOo modules for all users who have the permission rights to access it Making the drawing collection available as a Draw file is the simplest way to distribute a symbol
106. g window The object itself is not edited in Draw but in the other application Insert Use Insert gt Object gt OLE Object to open the dialog as shown in Figure 237 Use the Create new option to embed the OLE object in the Draw document With the Create from file option you can choose whether the object should be embedded or linked With a linked file any change in the stored file will be shown in Draw and conversely any change you make in Draw will be stored in the file on disk If you have decided to embed the object you can still create an independent text document from the OLE object For this use the Save Copy as command from the context menu Insert OLE Object Create from file Object type OpenOffice org 3 3 Spreadsheet OpenOffice org 3 3 Chart OpenOffice org 3 3 Drawing OpenOffice org 3 3 Presentation OpenOffice org 3 3 Formula Figure 237 Inserting an OLE Object Editing mode As soon as you click on OK the object is created and opens in editing mode You can recognize this mode by the gray frame around the object and the small black handles Take special note of the toolbars These are no longer those of the Draw module but of the Writer module Input the text and format it almost the same as if you were in Writer itself You now have available all the format styles from Writer Figure 238 Writer OLE object in editing mode Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 193 With the handles of the gray frame
107. ge 37 You can add text to a banner Adding text to objects Draw offers two ways to add text to a drawing in a dynamic text frame as an independent Draw object or as text contained within a previously drawn object In the latter case the text is integrated with the object Using dynamic text frames The text tool is activated by clicking on the Text icon for horizontal text or the Vertical Text icon for vertical script to be able see the icon and use this latter option you must check Enabled for Asian languages under Tools gt Options gt Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes 35 Language Settings gt Languages If you still do not see the Vertical Text icon enable it on the Drawing toolbar by clicking the arrow on the right hand side of the toolbar select Visible Buttons and click on Vertical Text to make this icon show on the toolbar Text frames can be moved and rotated like all draw objects For more details on text input see Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques After activating Text command mode click at the location where you want to position the text A small text frame appears It contains only the cursor You can move the frame if desired The Text Formatting toolbar appears Figure 33 and you can choose the font type font size and other text properties and begin to type in your text arial xe e v B JU A IM I P Ta Figure 33 Text Formatting toolbar The text frame grows with t
108. ges are in the correct order to form a booklet or brochure Plan your document so it will look good when printed half size choose appropriate margins font sizes and so on You may need to experiment Tip To print a brochure on a single sided printer 1 Choose File gt Print 2 In the Print dialog click Properties 3 Check the printer is set to the same orientation portrait or landscape as specified in the page setup for your document Usually the orientation does not matter but it does for brochures Click OK to return to the Print dialog 4 Select the Page layout tab in the Print dialog 20 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide 5 Select the Brochure option 6 In the Page sides section select Back sides left pages option from the Include drop down list 7 Click the Print button 8 Take the printed pages out of the printer turn the pages over and put them back into the printer in the correct orientation to print on the blank side You may need to experiment a bit to find out what the correct arrangement is for your printer General OpenOffice org Draw Page Layout Options Layout Order left to right then down 1 E Draw a border around each page Brochure Page sides Include All pages All pages Front sides right pages Back sides left pages 9 On the Print dialog in the Page sides section select Front sides right pages option from the Include drop down box 10 Click the Print butto
109. gle enclosing the start and end points of the connector Figure 211 Invisible text object frame Figure 211 Object frame of a connector When you add text to a connector the location of the text is relative to this rectangle The exact position of the text can be set in the Text dialog Figure 212 This dialog appears when you double click on text and then choose Text from the pop up menu or when you single click on the connector and select Format gt Text from the menu bar Take particular note of the Spacing to borders and Text anchor sections in the Text dialog In the Text anchor section you can see the possible locations for the text In the example below the text is anchored at the top left In the Spacing to borders section at the lower left negative values of spacing will position the text outside the frame 168 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Text Text Animation Fit to frame _ Adjust to contour Spacing to borders Text anchor Left Right Top Bottom Full width oK Cancel Help Reset Figure 212 The Text dialog Adjusting text to suit the connecting line If you want the text to follow the slope or curve of a line you need to activate and use the Fontwork tool To add this tool to the Draw toolbar 1 Choose To
110. ground area that contains the graphic not the graphic itself To see the background you must set the transparency of the graphic to a suitably high value Use this tool to set a shadow effect around the graphic Use this function to crop trim an image When you click on this icon crop marks appear on the image Figure 123 Drag one or more of these marks to crop the picture to your desired size For more accurate cropping see Cropping below 96 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Figure 123 Interactive crop marks on an image Cropping Crop Keep scale Left Right Scale Width Height Image size Width 18 24cm m LCM x 51 12m Height 13 75cm E Original Size Figure 124 The Crop dialog More control and accuracy over cropping functions are available via the Format menu Click Format gt Crop Picture and the dialog box in Figure 124 will appear The fields Left Right Top and Bottom establish the amount to be trimmed off the appropriate edge In addition to cropping you can also enlarge or reduce the size of the graphic by changing the percentage scaling values The new dimensions of the graphic are shown in the Image Size width and height boxes which can also be directly adjusted In Figure 124 you can see that 2 cm from the left side and 1 cm from the top bottom and right side will be trimmed from the original object The preview pane shows the location of the new edges of the graphic In
111. gure 20 Drag the mouse while keeping the mouse button pressed Release the mouse button at the point where you want to end the line A blue selection handle appears at each end of the line showing that this is the currently selected object Holding down the Shift key while you draw a line restricts the angle of the line toa multiple of 45 degrees 0 45 90 135 and so on This is the default behavior of the Shift key However if you have used Caution Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt Grid to set Snap position to When creating or moving objects the action of the Shift key is the A opposite lines will always be at a multiple of 45 degrees unless the Shift key is pressed Figure 20 Drawing a straight line Keeping the Ctrl key pressed while drawing a line enables the end of the line to snap to the nearest grid point The effect of the Ctrl key depends on the settings of the Snap to Grid Caution option on the View gt Grid menu A Snap to Grid on Ctrl deactivates the snap option for this activity Snap to Grid off Ctrl activates the snap option for this activity The spacing resolution of the grid points can be adjusted under Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt Grid See also Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks Holding down the Alt key while drawing a line results in the line extending outwards symmetrically in both directions from the start point This lets you draw lines by starting from the middle of
112. he light color and position relative to the scene can be set The light sources are represented by eight small light bulbs When you select this page the first bulb lights up ie At least one light source must be active otherwise the rendering and shading functions cannot function correctly Each symbol functions like a multi function press switch With the first mouse click the bulb is selected and with the second click the settings mode for this light source is activated see Figure 156 A third click deactivates the light source 126 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide 3 D Effects e le JP NL Illumination Light source mi abi Figure 156 Adjustment of light source In the selection list next to the symbols you can choose the color of the active light source If desired click the button to open a color palette dialog where you can define your own color and also adjust the brightness For the first light source it is best to retain the neutral color value default is white with several light sources it is advisable to reduce the brightness In the lower right corner of the menu the light source location and orientation is depicted With the vertical slider bar you can adjust the lighting angle with the horizontal bar the light is rotated about the object Alternatively you can click on the light point and drag the point as you please see Figure 157 Click on the small square in the bottom right circled to change t
113. he number of copies to print and whether to collate multiple copies Range and copies section Select the Properties button to display a dialog where you can choose portrait or landscape orientation which paper tray to use and the paper size to print on On the Options tab of the Print dialog Figure 18 you can set a number of other lesser used options for printing 18 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide General OpenOffice org Draw Page Layout Options serie al Create are print jobs for collated output C Print in reverse page order CI Use only paper tray from printer preferences Figure 18 General print options Printing multiple pages on a single sheet of paper You can print multiple pages of a document on one sheet of paper To do this 1 In the Print dialog select the Page Layout tab 2 In the Layout section select from the drop down list the number of pages to print per sheet The preview panel on the left of the Print dialog shows how the printed document will look When printing more than two pages per sheet you can choose the order in which they are printing across and down the paper The two pictures below Show the difference General OpenOffice org Draw Page Layout Options Layout Pages per sheet 4 Wj 2 Order left to right then down Iw 34 El Draw a border around each page Layout Pages per sheet a 13 Order 2 A Draw a border ie each page 3 In the Page sides
114. he preview image from a sphere to a cube co Figure 157 Moving the light source To apply the changed settings to the selected object click on the the Assign button The use of additional light sources can result in some interesting effects Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects 127 3D Effects EA O SS H a E 4 B is Lala soe ted aiemiitiet Got ot Illumination aa MD E a E m k DAAA Een E aol Ambient light ee eee ee ee eee Figure 158 Lighting with three independent light sources In Figure 158 the ring has the lighting settings from Figure 155 with the standard color white In addition it was lit with magenta and also from the left underside with yellow The number and position of the light sources is shown in the window at the lower right The three light sources in use can be recognized by the lit symbols y To see the effect of a particular lighting effect you can also temporarily turn it off With an object selected clicking on a lit symbol turns it off ig This new setting must then be applied assigned to the scene With a further mouse click on the light source the effect can be switched back on and then re assigned You can also change the settings for the Ambient lighting The selection of properties lighting color brightness and so on is carried out in same way as for light sources 3D Effects Textures Textures are raster graphics bitmaps
115. he text You can insert a line break with the Shift Enter key combination The Enter key begins a new paragraph Neither line breaks nor new paragraphs terminate the text frame aan n aa Tex SS SSS SSS SSS i E e e e PIII s i second line TextEdit Paragraph 1 Row 1 Column 4 i TextEdit Paragraph 1 Row 3 Column i gt Figure 34 Text input in a dynamic text frame Observe the information field in the status bar it shows that you are editing text and also provides details about the current cursor location paragraph line and column numbers Text properties can also be changed during text input Any changes will be reflected from the cursor position onwards Figure 35 Text input Properties changeol Figure 35 Changing text properties After choosing the Text icon you can also draw a frame with the mouse to contain future text You can move the frame only after typing some text in it Line breaks are inserted automatically at the right edge of the frame when the text fills the frame 36 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide width Figure 36 You can however just as when editing any other text insert your own line breaks begin new paragraphs or change any of the text properties Text input in a fixed frame the text wraps automatically Figure 36 Text frame Using text elements in Draw objects A text element is associated with most Draw objects By means of these elements
116. he underlying object Figure 104 Dynamic gradients Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes ie OpenOffice org 3 Chapter 9 Combining Multiple Objects Introduction grouping and combining objects Using Draw you can combine drawing objects together in two distinct ways grouping and combining These two methods allow you to treat multiple objects as one unit or to merge objects to form a new shape Grouping is like putting objects in a container You can move them as a group and apply global changes to them A group can always be undone and the objects that make up the group can always be manipulated separately A combination is a permanent fusion of objects leading to a new object The original objects are no longer available as individual entities and the operation is not reversible To select multiple objects click on each object while holding down the Tip Shift key or click the Select icon on the Drawing toolbar and draw a rectangle around the objects Grouping objects Grouping by common selection When several objects are selected any operations you carry out are applied to all of the objects For example you can rotate a group of objects in its entirety Groups obtained through common selection of several objects are undone as soon as you click outside the group However you can choose to maintain a grouping so that the selected objects will remain together after they are deselected Maint
117. here a B zier curve meets a straight line the tangent line lies on the straight line and cannot be moved sideways Figure 243 Smooth transition point Symmetric transition points In this case the tangents not only lie on a straight line but the distance of the control points from the curve point is the same The segments have the same direction and the same curvature at the transition point Figure 244 Symmetric transition point Changing point types When a point is selected the Edit Points toolbar activates the three corner point icons circled in the illustration below Edit Points x aae e Ges h 198 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide The circled icons are from left to right Corner point Smooth transition and Symmetric transition The latter two icons appear the same but you can identify them by looking at the tooltip At any time only one of the three icons will be active To change the type of point click on one of the other two icons If you cannot see the control point for a segment try changing the point type from Corner point to Smooth transition and then back again This often forces a redraw and you can then see both control points of the common corner point Note Closing the curve To close an open curve use Close object from the context menu or the Close B zier icon lt from the Edit Points toolbar A straight line is drawn between the start and end points if these points are Corner points If
118. ide The Position field shows different information depending on whether objects are currently selected or not e When no object is selected the left number pair shows the current position in X Y Cartesian coordinates of the mouse cursor e While an object is being resized with the mouse the right number pair shows the size of the object width and height The sizes are given in the current measurement unit not to be confused with the ruler units This unit is defined in Tools gt Options gt Note OpenOffice org Draw gt General where you can also change the scale of the page Another way to change the scale is to double click on the number shown in the status bar e If an object is selected the left number pair shows the X Y coordinates of the upper left corner and the right number pair displays the size of the object as seen in Figure 4 These numbers do not relate to the object itself but to the selection outline which is the smallest possible rectangle that can contain the visible part or parts of the object see also Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points e When an object is selected a double click on this field opens the Position and Size dialog which is described in detail in Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes In the Indicator field an asterisk is shown whenever any change is made to the document but not yet saved to disk If you wish to digitally sign the document a double click or right
119. igure 27 Hovering the mouse pointer over this icon gives a tooltip of Curve If you Note convert the icon to a floating toolbar however the title is Lines as Shown in Figure 27 Polygon Filled Polygon 45 Filled Curve Fille a x D Freeform Line Filled a P Curve ol a Freeform Line Polygon Polygon 45 Figure 27 Curves toolbar incorrectly titled Lines If you move the mouse cursor over one of the icons a tooltip pops up with a description of the function For a more detailed description of the handling of B zier curves curves and filled curves see Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques e Polygons Draw the first line from the start point with the left mouse button held down As soon as you release the mouse button a first corner point is drawn move the mouse to see how subsequent lines will look Every mouse click sets another corner point A double click ends the drawing A filled polygon automatically joins the last point to the first point to close off the figure and fills it with the current standard fill color A polygon without filling will not be closed at the end of the drawing e Polygon 45 Like ordinary polygons these are formed from lines but with angles of only 45 or 90 degrees between them Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes 31 e Freeform Line With this tool you can draw just like with a pencil Press and hold the left mouse button and drag the mouse It is not necessary to en
120. ill be placed when the size of the object is changed These buttons determine how the horizontal position of a glue point changes when you resize the object containing the glue point You can choose whether the glue point remains at a fixed distance from the left edge of the object from a vertical line through the middle or from the right edge of the object when you change the size of the object If the width of the object becomes less than that distance the glue point is attached to the object frame The following example shows what happens when an object s width is changed and the glue point is set to be a fixed distance to the left frame Chapter 9 Organization Charts Flow Diagrams and More 167 E These buttons determine in a similar manner the vertical position of a glue point when the size of the object is changed oH l Adding text to connectors To add text to a connector double click the connector The end and control points become active and the familiar flashing text cursor appears the cursor position is determined by the most recent setting The Text Formatting toolbar also appears under the menu bar Use this toolbar to set the text properties you can directly insert the text If you draw a connector and then click on it only the end points and control points become visible In spite of this a connector has its own object frame in this case an invisible one You can picture it easily by imagining a rectan
121. in how to do this To place the guide lines exactly and easily change the resolution of the Grid Suitable values for this work are a resolution of 5 mm and a subdivision of 4 points With this setting you should have a snap to grid function with 1 mm point separation We will begin by dimensioning the NOT gate For this block we want the total width 18 mm and the width of the block itself 8 mm to have dimension lines The first step is to add guide lines to delimit the dimension lines With Snap to grid activated you can position these quite accurately see Figure 230a Be sure that the function Snap to guide lines is active and zoom in to the part of the block to be dimensioned The block should not be selected Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 181 Start the dimensioning command by clicking the Dimension Line icon is on the Arrows toolbar This toolbar is not visible by default The dimension line is placed automatically on the Dimension Lines layer so that you can hide dimension lines if you wish C a 7 252i f 20mm E oo eee tne Figure 230 a Delimiting the edges with guide lines b Dragging the dimension line anticlockwise c Finished dimension line 4q cc terres i r a yoo of 7 After clicking the Dimension Line icon the mouse cursor changes into a small cross As we activated the option Dimension Line Measure below Object the dimensioning Should be made in a counterclockwise di
122. ing View gt Toolbars gt Text Formatting Text Formatting Kila Aa A Arial iv b B J U Ay a gt m i ll ll oO IML II Figure 66 Text Formatting toolbar when text is selected The context menu When an object is selected you can right click on the object to bring up a context menu Figure 67 The context menu provides additional access to the options shown above and another way to change an object s attributes The entries with a small arrow on the right hand side contain a submenu 56 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Line Area Text Position and Size Edit Points Character Paragraph asjas ge Arrange Bring to Front Alignment Bring Forward Flip Send Backward Convert Send to Back ate In Front of Object doc Behind Object Edit Style Cut a Copy Paste Figure 67 Right click on an object to see the context menu Editing lines and borders Lines arrows and the borders of an object are managed through the same dialog Figure 69 Ra Figure 68 Lines and borders You can change some properties from the Line and Filling toolbar To see more options select the object and right click on the object and choose Line from the context menu This opens the Line dialog Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes 57 Line Shadow Line Styles Arrow Styles Line properties Arrow styl
123. ing with 3D Objects Creating 3D objects Although Draw does not match the functionality of leading drawing or picture editing programs it is capable of producing and editing very good 3D drawings and pictures Draw offers two different types of 3D objects 3D bodies and 3D shapes Depending on which type you choose there are different possibilities for further editing of the object rotation illumination perspective 3D shapes are simpler to set up and edit than 3D bodies but 3D bodies currently allow for more customization Creating 3D bodies You can produce 3D bodies in three ways extrusion body rotation and using ready made objects In this chapter these methods are called Variation 1 2 and 3 Two further variations extruding Basic Shapes and converting text to 3D are also described Variation 1 Extrusion First draw one of the common Draw objects for example a square rectangle circle ellipse or a text box using the A or T icons on the Drawing toolbar Next choose Modify gt Convert gt To 3D or right click on the object and choose Convert gt To 3D or click the y icon to produce a 3D object from the 2D surface The F icon is not usually visible on the Drawing toolbar To make it visible select Visible Buttons from the toolbar menu at the right hand end of the toolbar and click on the icon to make it visible li Figure 128 Extruding 3D objects from 2D surfaces The proced
124. ingle pages into another document using Insert gt File 150 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Using the Pages area Ctil double click to dock and Undock Aida 1 Adjust width of windo RI New Page Delete Page Rename Page Cut Copy Ba Slide 2 66 63 60 57 54 51 48 45 42 39 36 33 Using page backgrounds By default the Pages area is docked on the left of the Draw window It shows every page in the document as a small picture Select a picture from the Pages area and the corresponding page is loaded in the main workspace Click on the page to activate it for editing The Pages area behaves similarly to the Styles and Formatting area Drag on the gray separator line to change the width of the Pages pane Click on the middle of this line to show or hide the pane Double click with the Control key pressed in the upper gray area to dock or undock the area which can be turned into a floating window In the Pages area you can drag and drop a picture to change the order of pages in the document a black horizontal line shows the position where the page will be inserted Using the context menu you can insert or delete pages or duplicate pages with copy and paste alternatively create duplicate pages using Insert gt Duplicate Slide on the menu With background pages you can set common settings for multiple pages of the Draw document These include setting the color or graphics of the bac
125. isible outline With callouts as with text frames in Points mode drag the larger handle in the left upper corner with the mouse to give the desired amount of rounding An example of this is shown in Figure 234 Figure 234 Legend with rounded corners Unlike drawing objects text frames and callouts support automatic line breaks and you can switch on automatic hyphenation under Tools gt Language gt Hyphenation Non breaking dashes and protected separators are however not available Fora manual line break use as elsewhere the key combination Shift Enter With the text and callout icons and g you can create text frames and callouts with vertical text You need to activate Enhanced language support gt Enabled for Asian languages in Tools gt Options gt Language Settings gt Languages Text frames can be rotated like drawing objects but it is not possible to rotate callouts Text frames and callouts do not have a separate text element but you still use the Text dialog to set formatting properties As soon as you have input text the upper three settings on the left side become active Figure 235 The settings for Spacing to Borders and Text anchors in the lower window area function in a similar manner to normal drawing objects and are not dealt with further here 188 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Text Fit width to text _ Fit to frame Figure 235 Text options active for text frames and callouts All opti
126. ition lasts only as long as you have the dialog open when you close this dialog Draw resets the base point to the standard position Ti The Keep ratio checkbox is very useful Click it to keep the ratio of width Ip to height fixed while you change the size of an object Either or both the size and position can be protected so that they cannot be inadvertently changed Check the appropriate boxes to achieve this Tip You cannot move an object Check to see if the position is protected 46 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Rotating objects Click on the Rotation tab of the Position and Size dialog see Figure 46 Here you can define the rotation angle as well as the location of the pivot point Position and Size Position and Size Rotation Slant amp Corner Radius Pivot point Default settings Position X Position Y 18 07cm Rotation angle Angle 0 00 degrees Figure 46 Rotating an object Slant and corner radius The slant angle inclination or shearing and corner radius can be set in this dialog Figure 47 Position and Size ce Position and Size Rotation Comer radius Radius 0 00cm lant amp Corner Radius slant Angle 0 00 degrees Figure 47 Setting rounded corners and slant angle Corner radius Comer radius Radius 2 00cm m Draw Guide Draw Guide Figure 48 Example of setting rounded corners Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points 47
127. iven time Their use is described in the following chapter uf F b d Choose the Symmetric Transition button 4 to work with a symmetrical tangent Figure 53 Any movement of Figure 55 one or the other of the handles is carried over Symmetric symmetrically to the other handle tangent Choose the Smooth Transition button i to separately adjust the lengths of the two parts of a tangent and so make the curve flatter or steeper In Figure 54 the curve Figure 54 is flatter on the longest side of the tangent The tangent Asymmetric remains as a single straight line This kind of tangent is tangent known as a smooth junction It is also possible to separate both sides of the tangent from the curve In this case the central point is known as the inflexion point Using this technique you can draw spikes and troughs in objects Choose the Corner Point Figure 55 Inflexion point button to create an inflexion point around the selected point Examples The other buttons in the Edit Points Toolbar are described here in relation to working examples The following examples start from a filled circle As mentioned earlier in order to use Edit Points mode you first need to convert the object to a curve You will notice that after the conversion the handles located in the corners of the rectangle have disappeared This behavior is normal in that the handles which are used in the Edit Points mode are located along the outline or trac
128. kground background objects and fields such as page numbering and author Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks 151 The terms used in this area may not be completely consistent so that the terms Slide Page and Master Background Page Template are used more or less interchangeably in places When looking for information in Help it may be necessary to use alternative search terms Note Creating a page background Change with View gt Master to the Master view and note that a related Master View toolbar opens If this toolbar does not appear activate it with View gt Toolbars In this toolbar are switches for a new background page and for renaming the master page These functions are also available by right clicking on a page picture in the Pages area of the Master view The button for deleting a master page is only available when you select a background page in the Pages area which has not yet been assigned to any page ro Close Master View Figure 188 Master View toolbar To return to normal mode click the Close Master View button or View gt Normal You can edit background pages just like normal pages With Format gt Page gt Background you can set the color pattern or background picture These settings are specific to each background page In the Master view you can set the size and orientation of the page such settings apply to all pages If you insert drawing objects on a background page they are visible on all pages that
129. ko o a JR e E e i E R a a e cs a cc b u a Drawing to scale In Draw a drawing is made on a predefined drawing area or canvas This will usually be in the Letter or A4 format depending on your locale settings and will be output to some standard printer that you have set up on your computer usually referred to as the default printer Depending on the actual size of the drawn objects it is often necessary or convenient to reduce or enlarge the drawing by some scaling value You can specify the scale that you wish to use under Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt General The scale and selected unit of measurement are automatically reflected in the rulers the window position and the window size Scale settings can be stored permanently in a template that you can then use for new drawings The scale you use has no effect on the basic drawing operations Draw will automatically calculate the necessary values for example dimension lines The grid spacing is independent of drawing scale as the grid is not a drawing element but only an optical drawing aid If you want to insert elements into a drawing from the Gallery or Note Clipboard you should draw these to the same scale as you are using for the drawing to ensure the proper size ratio is maintained Splitting drawings on multiple layers Layers are like transparencies that lie one on top of another on an overhead projector You can insert and extract single layers as desi
130. l objects are selected the frame around them corresponds to the smallest rectangle that can contain all of the objects This frame is called the selection rectangle If the Options toolbar is displayed select View gt Toolbars gt Options to turn it on if it is not displayed you can change the size of the handles using two buttons Simple Handles shows the handles as flat squares otherwise they are shown in 3D Large Handles increases the size of the handles You can combine the two effects The figure below shows the location of the handles and other buttons Simple Handles Large Handles x e nilio oe a OP oP aama a Figure 38 Location of handles on the Options toolbar Selection modes There are three selection modes 1 Moving and changing size 2 Editing 3 Rotating points Es To set the default mode 1 or 2 for selecting objects click on the Points button on the Drawing toolbar In standard mode when you begin a new drawing the Points button is not active and the default mode is for selections to be moved or changed in size these selections are indicated by small green squares When the Points button is active the default mode is for selections to be edited these selections are indicated by blue squares Some objects will have one or more extra handles which are larger or colored differently This is explained in more detail in Editing object points on page 48
131. l or vertical 176 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide ees Oe een eo Sur Carry forward Figure 222 Half adder drawn using logic symbol building blocks Position two horizontal guiding lines A B on the grid with Y 4 0 cm and Y 6 0 cm With Snap to Grid active this should be no problem With an INVERTER gate the input and output leads lie in the middle of the block 4 mm below the upper edge In order that the input and output are docked to the guiding line the upper edges of the INVERTER gate must be positioned for a 5 mm grid spacing at Y 4 1 cm and Y 6 1 cm Right click on the guiding line select Edit guiding line from the context menu and set the guiding lines to 4 1 cm and 6 1 cm In order that the blocks lie exactly underneath each other insert vertical guiding lines at X 5 0 cm INVERTER gate and X 8 0 cm AND gate Now open the Gallery and drag the Inverter gate into approximately 0 64 the position desired If the function Snap to guiding line is still active you will be able to accurately position both blocks in the correct location Your diagram should now look like Figure 223 Figure 223 Drawing a half adder Step 1 Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 177 The input and output leads of the INVERTER lie at Y 4 5 cm and Y 6 5 cm Move the mouse over a guiding line When the mouse cursor changes to a double arrow drag the guiding line with the left mouse button pressed onto the input a
132. le measurement unit is the centimeter The drawing scale and grid settings depend on the size of the floor plan Use the Position and Size dialog right click and choose Position and Size to position and dimension the individual wall sections easily Make sure that the rectangles completely overlap see Figure 184 otherwise the merging will give uneven edges Figure 184 Wall corner from two rectangles From upper to lower before merging after merging and after hatching Figure 185 shows the finished floor plan In addition a chest of drawers has been added The body of the chest is drawn on the Layout layer the pulled out drawer and the open doors are drawn as a group and put on a separate user defined layer Layer4 in our example Figure 186 shows how this is done Making the layer with the drawers and doors visible or hidden will show them open and closed see Figure 187 Hidden layers are shown with a colored tab 148 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Figure 186 Using layers for different parts of a drawing Left Draw the body of the chest on the Layout layer Right Create a new layer and draw the open drawers and doors keeping the Layout layer visible to help you position the additional objects Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks 149 Layer4 Layer4 Figure 187 Making layers visible or hidden Left Hide the Layout layer to see what is on Layer4 Right Show the Layo
133. library to other users After opening the drawing other users can easily transfer the drawing objects into their own Gallery as described above Drawing a logic circuit diagram using the Gallery The use of the symbol library which you have created and placed in the Gallery can be illustrated by using the blocks to draw a half adder see http en wikipedia org wiki Half adder Half adder You can precisely place all the drawing objects with the help of Draw s snap functions The following instructions are only one way to achieve this objective Begin with a new drawing Set the unit of measurement to centimeter a grid point Spacing of 0 5 cm and subdivision of 4 points Activate the grid guiding lines and associated snap functions In the first part of the exercise you should draw only the two signal leads a and b the two INVERTER gates and the two AND gates Begin by drawing the two signal leads To make it a bit easier you can use the values in the following table Start point Length Signal wire a X 2 cm Y 3 0 cm 5 5 cm Signal wire b X 3 cm Y 3 0 cm 5 5 cm After drawing the two signal leads you begin the hardest part With grouped objects the snap function works only on points on the outside contours The only way to work with these blocks as a unit however is as a grouped object The input and output leads must lie precisely on grid points if the connecting lines are to be exactly horizonta
134. ll still function As long as the new picture is given the same name as the old one links will be re established and updated when the document containing the link is next opened However some actions do not last beyond the current session for example Filter or are simply not possible on a linked graphic for example using the color replacer to exchange colors Links can easily be removed The linked picture will then be embedded in the document To break a link choose Edit gt Links from the main menu bar In the Edit Links dialog see Figure 117 choose the link to be broken and then click on the Break Link button Edit Links Source file Element Type Status tiose insertpictfromfile1 png PNG Portable Network Graphic Manual file home dsc02847 jpg JPEG Joint Photographic Graphic Manual Help Update Modify Break Link Source file file home martin Documents insertpictfromfile1 png Element PNG Portable Network Graphic Type Graphic Update Figure 117 Editing links to documents Scanning With most scanners you can directly insert a scanned picture into a document Scanned images are embedded in the document in PNG format Make sure that the scanner is supported by the SANE system if you are running a Linux or other UNIX like operating system or TWAIN if you are using Windows and that it is already configured on the machine on which OpenOffice org is running If more
135. ly if you use the eyedropper tool to set transparency will an Alpha channel also be produced To determine the height and width of the converted graphic number of pixels Draw considers the dpi setting of the operating system for the screen and the percentage scaling factor set under Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org gt View in the section User Interface Example Width of vector graphic 1 5 inch Monitor setting of operating system 96 dpi 96 dots per inch Scaling 130 Calculation 1 5 inch x 96 dpi 130 187 pixels The actual number of pixels will vary somewhat from this value due to rounding When the format permits Draw uses a dpi value in this case 125 dpi which permits the calculation to be reversed and the picture with this pixel value reproduced with the correct width of 1 5 inch Print options with raster graphics If you have only a black and white printer or are experiencing problems with printing you should check the following settings You can set up printing so that all text and all graphics are printed in grayscale or black and white The general settings are in Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt Print in the section Quality see Figure 126 To set these for the current document only use Options in the Print dialog File gt Print With both Black white printing and Grayscale printing no background is printed 5 Options OpenOffice org Draw Print P OpenOffice org a gt
136. n Tip If your printer can print double sided automatically choose All pages Printing in black and white on a color printer You may wish to print documents in black and white on a color printer Several choices are available Please note that some color printers may print in color regardless of the settings you choose To change the printer settings to print in black and white or grayscale 1 Choose File gt Print to open the Print dialog 2 Click Properties to open the Properties dialog for the printer The available choices vary from one printer to another but you should find options for the Color settings See your printer s help or user manual for more information 3 The choices for color might include black and white or grayscale Choose the required setting 4 Click OK to confirm your choice and return to the Print dialog 5 Click the Print button to print the document Tip Grayscale is best if you have any graphics in the document Chapter 1 Introducing Draw 21 To change the OpenOffice org settings to print all color text and graphics as grayscale 1 Choose Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org gt Print 2 Select the Convert colors to grayscale option Click OK to save the change 3 Open the Print dialog File gt Print 4 Click the Print button to print the document To change the Draw settings to print all color text as black and all graphics as grayscale 1 Choose Tools gt Options gt
137. n attached Figure 30 shows two Draw objects and a connector 32 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Figure 30 A connector between two objects Draw offers a range of different connectors and connector functions Open the Ae floating Connectors toolbar by clicking on the arrow next to the Connector icon Figure 31 Connector with Arrows Line Connector Connector Ends with Arrow Line Connector Ends with Arrow Connect Is x Connector mm My fy Line Connector with Arrows Straight Connector Wa Cu u Ten S fa Curved Connector with Arrows Straight Connector Ends with Arrow Curved Connector Ends with Arrow Straight Connector with Arrows Curved Connector Figure 31 The Connectors toolbar For a more detailed description of the use of connectors see Chapter 9 Organization Charts Flow Diagrams and More Drawing geometric shapes Geometric shapes include e Basic shapes e Symbol shapes e Block arrows e Flowcharts e Callouts e Stars Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes 33 If you select shapes for editing the information field in the toolbar Note shows the type of shape selected and if more than one object is selected the total number Figure 32 shows part of the Drawing toolbar with the icons referred to in the following sections Clicking on the arrow next to the icon opens a floating toolbar with the relevant work tools Figure 32 Part of the main Drawing toolbar The use o
138. n pressed starting and end points are shown here in the figures as snap points Drag the mouse to approximately the position of your first control point It does not matter if this is not exactly right as you can move the control point location later If you hold the Shift key down while dragging the control point will lie on a 45 degree grid Release the mouse button and move the mouse to the position of the end point of the curve You can see that the line of the curve follows the movement of the mouse Double click at the end position Turn on point mode with the x icon from the Draw toolbar At the end of the curve you will see not only the end point but also an associated control point the round handle Hover the mouse cursor over this point the cursor shape changes to show that you are in edit mode of a control point You may have to click on the control point to see this change in behavior see next section Now you can drag the control point to its correct position if necessary 196 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Point mode of the Bezier curve After drawing a curve using the icon from the Draw toolbar or with the Edit points command from the context menu you can switch to point mode from which you edit individual points on the curve Points on the curve are shown with a square handle the control points with a round handle The starting point of a curve appears somewhat larger than the other points
139. nOffice org 3 4 this feature is called the Color Replacer Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 101 Practical example Changing wrong colors to transparency Some applications which cannot correctly handle transparency show transparent areas with the color Magenta and then store the graphic with this color and without the correct transparency information AZ Bitmap graphic with area in magenta which actually should be FZE Shown transparent On the left is the original picture right is the picture after saving it with MS Paint If you receive such a picture you can recreate the transparency with the eyedropper tool Open the Eyedropper dialog with Tools gt Sr eyearonperS Eyedropper and click on the picture to be edited Colors Source color Tolerance Replace with 10 _ Transparent 10 L Transparent 10 L Transparent 10 _ Transparent Transparency Now click on the icon 2 to change to the oer color selection mode Outside the dialog the gt cursor changes to a hand The field next to mn the icon shows the color immediately under Source color Tolerance Replace with the hand cursor C 10 C Transparent v l E 10 IC Transparent v fo C Transparent o f0 l CO Transparent Transparency z Click on the color to be changed The first Source Color box is now marked and the 2 M p color selected appear
140. nd Gouraud is small With the Gouraud method the segments can be very faintly seen and rendered objects have a slightly less shine than with the Phong method 124 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide All three methods function at the pixel level and therefore shadowing and mirroring inside the 3D scene as permitted by ray tracing methods are not possible With the the Shadow button E you can provide a 3D object with a shadow By changing the Surface angle you can influence the form of the shadow see Figure 153 The left sphere has a surface angle of 0 the paper represents a perpendicular surface behind the object while the right sphere has a surface angle of 45 With 90 the paper would be directly under the object Figure 153 Shadows using different surface angles The shape and size of the the shadow are also influenced by the lighting properties These can be adjusted on the Illumination page of the dialog Multiple light sources for shadows are not yet supported The shadow properties can be set for individual objects in a drawing but where objects form part of a 3D scene the shadow produced is that of the entire scene It is possible to set the shadow property for single objects using the Area property The shadow is then shown with the color selected in the shadow dialog but again the representation of the lighting of the scene determines the end result of the entire scene In this way colored shadows with differ
141. nd customize the area fill and border When you are satisfied click on the New Style from Selection icon on the Styles and Formatting window This defines a new style based on the selected object Type a name for the new style and click OK Applying a style Once the new style is defined you can apply it to other objects Select another object and double click on the style name you defined The new object will acquire the area fill and line properties of that style Question What happens if I modify a style after it has been applied Tip Answer Then every object with that style is updated automatically Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes 71 Modifying a style Modifying a style is similar to creating a new style Select an object with that style and change the area and line properties When satisfied click on the Update Style icon Alternatively click the Styles and Formatting icon or press F11 right click the style you wish to modify and select Modify Edit the properties you want to change and click OK to finish Special effects First make sure that the Drawing toolbar is selected View gt Toolbars gt Drawing On the Drawing toolbar locate the Effects icon Click on the arrow next to that icon This opens a submenu with all the special effect tools see Figure 99 56 7 8 1 Rotate 4 Set in Circle perspective 7 Transparency 2 Flip 5 Set to Circle slant 8 Gradient 3 In 3D Rotation Object 6 Dist
142. nd output leads of the block If the grid snap is still active this should be exactly positioned without much effort The leads of the AND gate lie 1 5 mm below the upper edges of the two horizontal guiding lines They must be moved up for the next step The Y coordinates are reduced to 4 35 cm and 6 35 cm the top edges of the AND gates When you have moved the lines you can drag both AND gates from the Gallery and position them Your drawing should now resemble that in Figure 224 Next drag the horizontal guiding lines again over the input and output of the gates Y 4 5 6 5 cm so that when you position the connection point of the leads a small black circle it will sit exactly on top of the leads from the gates a om z i a aa a aa E Figure 224 Drawing a half adder Step 2 To position the two last gates you need to set the following additional guiding lines a vertical line with X 11 cm and two horizontal lines C D at Y 5 5 cm and Y 7 5 cm respectively Shift the horizontal lines C and D each 1 5mm upwards so that Y 5 35 cm and Y 7 35 cm Drag the OR and the last AND gate from the gallery and position them as in Figure 225 a ee Figure 225 Drawing a half adder Step 3 178 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Since the OR gate will be connected to the two previously positioned AND gates you can delete the guiding line of the OR gate Drag the 0 64 horizontal guiding lines C and D o
143. nector types fall into four groups Standard connectors the line segments run vertically and horizontally All angles are right angles The connector does not bend around the objects it binds Line connectors consist of a line segment and two smaller horizontal or vertical segments at the ends Straight connectors consist of a single line Curved connectors are based on B zier curves as described in Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques You can modify all the connector types from the context menu Select Connector to change from one connector type to another as well as some other properties With the Line dialog you can change the appearance of the line color arrow style and line style but not the connector type Drawing connectors basics When you choose a connector from the toolbar the mouse pointer changes to As you move the cursor over an object the available connection points also referred to as glue points become visible To connect two shapes move the mouse cursor over a glue point click and hold down the left mouse button to establish the first point and then drag the mouse cursor left button still pressed to the other glue point and release the mouse button The ends of the line are now docked and the connection is established see Figure 207 Figure 207 Gluing a connector to a shape You can also attach the beginning or the end of a connector to the middle of an object This is usef
144. ng Selection by framing You can also select several objects at once by using the mouse to drag a large rectangle around the objects with the Select button as shown For this to work the k icon on the Drawing toolbar must be active Only objects that lie entirely within the rectangle will be selected o u i i lt Selecting hidden objects Even if objects are located behind others and not visible they can still be selected Hold down the Alt key and click where the object is located If there are several overlapping objects hold down the Alt key and click until you reach the object you want To cycle through the objects in reverse order hold down the Alt Shift keys and 40 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide click The number and type of the selected objects is shown at the left of the status bar to help you to select the correct object This method generally works in Windows but on a Linux system it usually Note does not If the Alt key on your system does not operate as described above use the Tab key method described below To select an object that is covered by another object using the keyboard use the Tab key to cycle through the objects stopping at the object you wish to select To cycle through the objects in reverse order press Shift Tab This is a very quick way to reach the object you want but it may not be practical if you have a large number of objects in your drawing When you click on the selec
145. ng the left mouse button pressed down When you release the mouse button the point will be moved to the new position If you move one of the handles located at the end of the tangents during rotation you will make the object rotate in exactly the same way as with the usual rotation operations Important To exit the effects mode do not just click on the Effects button click the Select button on the Drawing toolbar 54 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide a a OpenOffice org 3 Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes Toolbars and menus To change an object s attributes such as color or border width you can use the Line and Filling toolbar or the context menu Line and Filling toolbar If the Line and Filling toolbar is not visible you can display it using View gt Toolbars gt Line and Filling From here you can edit the most common object attributes You can also open the Line dialog by clicking on the Line icon and the Area dialog by clicking on the Area amp icon to see more options Line and Filling x A Oke 0 00cm E Black amp 1 2 3 4 0 1 Styles and Formatting 4 Line Style 7 Area 2 Line 5 Line Width 8 9 Area Style Filling 3 Arrow Style 6 Line Color 10 Shadow Figure 65 Line and Filling toolbar Text Formatting toolbar When you select text the Line and Filling toolbar changes to show text formatting options You can also display the Text Formatting toolbar by choos
146. ngs are arranged in various thematic categories on separate pages accessible through the buttons at the top of the window which act in a similar way to tabs To apply the settings you have altered click the Assign button w This applies all the changes you have made to the object on the other pages of the dialog as well as the current one E Figure 138 Upper part of the 3D Effects dialog Only the selected effects are assigned to the object There is no object conversion thus a cylinder cannot be transformed into a ring through Note the application of a 3D effect However it is possible to change the appearance to resemble a wooden or metal body By the assignment of a 3D effect 2D objects are transformed into 3D objects Chapter 7 Working with 35D Objects 117 In order for the Effects dialog to take over all the current properties of the object you must click the om button If you deactivate this button before you leave an object and click on it again when you open the Effects dialog for another object the settings are carried over from the first object to the second object You can use this to transfer favorite settings from one object to another as all the settings are brought over to the new object In normal use however the icon should be left activated At the bottom left of the dialog is another row of buttons see Figure 139 which are available on each page Figure 139 Buttons for geometric trans
147. not fit within the Shape the overflow appears above or below the shape First line Third line Resize shape to fit text Watch out If you turn on this option it is not possible to undo the size changes whether by using the Undo function on the menu or by switching off the option in the dialog 186 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide For the classic drawing objects both lower left options in the dialog are active Text _ Fit width to text 34 Fit height to text _ Adjust to contour These options have the following effects Word wrap text in shape X Resize shape to fit text Fit to frame The text is widened and compressed so that it fills out to the object frames Adjust to contour All the text is contained within the figure It is split over several lines if necessary Any text which does not fit in the figure is not shown but is still retained Note that even if you have activated hyphenation words will be split without regard to the hyphenation rules Distance from frame Spacing settings are added to the text In this way the text block is invisibly reduced or with negative values made bigger In the examples below the text M is centered horizontally and the text block is anchored in the upper middle part of the frame Value for spacing drawing objects and shapes 4 i 2 cm 1 cm 0 cm 1 cm 2 cm 3 cm Above
148. nt and rear side Figure 162 Cylinder as a rotation body 130 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Projection X Projection X Projection X Area fill without tiling with adjustments Projection Y Projection Y O58 Difference is small Upper and under sides Figure 163 Cylinder as an extrusion object The Filter button switches on and off a soft focus filter It can often remove slight faults and errors in the texture 3D Effects Material On this page you can assign the appearance of different materials to the 3D object g 15 Figure 164 Material menu In the selection list under Favorites are the most commonly used materials see Figure 165 Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects 131 Figure 165 The favorites from left to right Metal Gold Chrome Plastic and Wood With the individual color parameters additional effects can be produced The meaning of these parameters corresponds to those on the Illumination dialog page Materials and textures can be combined with one another Settings only simulate materials and it is sometimes a matter of trial and error to achieve the desired result Do not use too high a brightness value for individual colors These are all additive and it is easy to end up with a totally white colored area Tip The Illumination color brightens those parts of the object which lie in shadow making the bo
149. nt is not exactly where you want it move it by dragging with the mouse When you are satisfied with the location click on the Glue Points toolbar the icon with the exit direction you want left right top or bottom The selected icon now has a different lighter or darker background Set the exit direction of the input connection leads to the left and the output leads to the right When you have set a glue point at the end of each gate s connection lead you can copy it into the Gallery Copying individual pictures to the Gallery The Gallery is a very convenient way of controlling building blocks for drawings It also functions as a symbol library First open the Gallery using Tools gt Gallery or by clicking on the icon if it is present in one of the toolbars The Gallery appears above the drawing page The left pane shows the folders available for use and the right pane shows the images contained in the current folder Choose an image by clicking on it additional information about the image appears in the header bar In the left pane click the New Theme button to create a new folder A new window opens Click on the General tab and give the new theme a meaningful name for example Logic to replace the default of New Theme You can rename a theme by right clicking it in the folders pane on the left To import existing images into the Gallery click on the Files tab and then on the Find Files button It is possible to brin
150. nts Figure 130 Rotation body created using variation 2 2 Click one of the white endpoints and drag it so that the axis moves to the desired position You may need to move both ends to achieve this The outline shows how the figure will be rotated When you click on the figure again the rotation is carried out and the new 3D body is produced Variation 3 Using ready made objects Use the 3D Objects toolbar pull down menu Figure 131 To activate this toolbar click View gt Toolbars gt 3D Objects a oe g Figure 131 The 3D Objects toolbar If you add the icon G to the Drawing toolbar the 3D Object bar will be available as a pull down menu or as a floating toolbar Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects 113 After choosing the type of object left click on the starting point and drag the mouse diagonally until the outline of the object is the size you want After releasing the mouse button the 3D object appears To change the height width ratio of the object keep the Shift key pressed while dragging the mouse Most of these objects are constructed by rotation Cubes and spheres are special types of 3D objects that are directly defined in the OOo program code 3D scenes Variations 1 3 all produce a result known as a 3D scene If you click on a 3D scene the status bar text shows 3D scene selected Such a scene is actually a group of objects If you constructed the scene using one of the above methods it consists of
151. nuous lines but without Double Sided Right with Double Sided Use the buttons in the section Normals to modify the normals of a 3D object A Normal is a straight line which is perpendicular to the surface of an object in the Same way that a vector starting from an inner point and extending outwards is at right angles to the surface of the object at the point where it exits Figure 149 shows some normals extending outwards from a sphere made up of 10 segments Figure 149 Normals vectors of a 3D sphere with 10 segments Using normals the display of the object surface and the variation in colors textures and lighting can be controlled influencing directly how the surface of the object is rendered The first three icons in Figure 141 work as either or switches Only one of the effects can be active at a given time an effect can be switched off by clicking on one of the other icons The settings belong to individual objects not scenes every object can have its own setting The rest of the icons are normal toggle on off switches The following effects are available Object specific The object is rendered to produce the best result independent of its shape Single segments are changed but their edges will hardly be visible Flat The surface of the 3D object will be divided into single polygons whose edges are clearly recognizable Every polygon is generated with a uniform color 122 OpenOf
152. offers even more possibilities when you use the functions on the B zier curve Edit Points toolbar The Edit Points toolbar When you work in Edit Points mode use the Edit Points toolbar shown in Figure 52 To activate this toolbar choose View gt Toolbars gt Edit Points It will then appear whenever you select a curve and the Edit Points icon on the Drawing toolbar is active On this toolbar icons may be active or inactive depending on the selected object and object point With the Convert to Curve icon you can determine for individual points whether their connection will be made with straight lines or with curves Only with curves are the icons for tangents activated An object that contains no curves is treated as a polygon 1 B zier curves were invented by Pierre B zier an engineer working with the Renault car manufacturer who developed the technique in the 1960s The technology was intended to make modeling the surface of vehicles easier Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points 49 1 2 3 456 7 8 9 10 11 1 Points 5 Split Curve 9 Symmetric Transition 2 Move Points 6 Convert to Curve 10 Close B zier 3 Insert Points 7 Corner Point 11 Eliminate Points 4 Delete Points 8 Smooth Transition Figure 52 Edit Points toolbar The three kinds of tangent Three buttons in the Edit Points Toolbar let you select the type of tangent and convert from one type to another Only one of these buttons can be active at any g
153. ollows the shape of a curved line Experiment a little to investigate some of the possibilities 170 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide A en OpenOffice org 3 Chapter 1 O Advanced Draw Techniques Drawing to scale Draw is not a CAD computer aided design program but a graphics program with which you can produce drawings to scale The example used for this chapter is a drawing of a Logic Circuit Diagram The exact meaning of the individual symbols is not described here as we are only interested in the drawing techniques used to produce the diagram The logic symbols in Figure 215 form the building block library for our scale drawing ey 1 p J a af Tim paa a a cw LL NAND NOR Figure 215 Logic Symbol library Working with the Position and Size dialog To ensure that the edges of the building block symbols do not coincide with the wiring they should be 8 mm wide and 8 mm high The connections to the symbols should have a length and separation of at least 5 mm These values are somewhat arbitrary and you can substitute values that suit your own needs For the drawing we used a measurement unit of millimeters a grid spacing of 5 mm and a grid subdivision of 4 points In addition you should probably activate Display grid and Guides when moving as well as Snap to grid see Chapter 8 This drawing will serve later as a collection of available symbols so you should not only draw the symbols but fully detail th
154. ols gt Customize from the menu bar 2 On the Toolbars tab select Drawing from the Toolbars pull down list In the Toolbar content section click Add 3 On the Add Commands dialog select Format from the left hand list and the command Fontwork Click Add then Close to return to the Customize dialog 4 In the list of commands under Toolbar Content move the Fontwork icon Y to the location you want by using the up down arrows and then click OK To write slanting text follow these steps 1 Add the text to the connector as described earlier The anchor location of the text is not important at this stage 2 Select the object with the text in this case the connector and click on the Fontwork icon Yi to open the Fontwork dialog 3 To make the text lie along the inclined line click the Rotate icon and set the distance to the line you wish Chapter 9 Organization Charts Flow Diagrams and More 169 Figure 213 Adding text to an inclined line Step 1 B Fontwork osom o Spacing S Y joo Figure 214 Adding text to an inclined line Step 2 The Fontwork dialog provides many other possibilities for manipulating text You can for example rotate the text 180 degrees with the Orientation icon which was done in the example above or place the text under the line by assigning a negative value to the spacing between text and line In addition you can use the Fontwork dialog to generate curved text that f
155. on the page margins 144 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Snap to object border With this function you can position one drawing object on the border of another The connection point can lie anywhere on the object border To use this function first deactivate Snap to grid Figure 180 shows some examples Note that a typical object border will touch the border of a round object at only one of its four points Figure 180 Objects positioned on the border of another object Snap to object points This function operates in a similar manner to the one just described The difference is that the connection point can lie only at one of the four corner points of both the object being moved and the target object This leads to the situation where two round objects have a connection point that does not lie on either object but at one of the red circled points Figure 181 Objects connected to the object point of another object Help to position objects with guiding lines To simplify the positioning of objects it is possible to make visible guide lines extensions of the edges of the object while it is being moved These guide lines have no snap function Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks 145 The guide lines can be de activated under Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt View gt Guides when moving or by clicking the Fi icon on the Options toolbar I I r a I I E ee a I D se a a Pe ate a a e a e a I I
156. ons off In versions of Draw before 3 2 the text is broken at the object frame You do not see l text that does not fit within the object This isa frame It is still available and if you enlarge the object it will be visible somewhat longer l In versions 3 2 and later the breaking of line in a frame the text at the frame border does not e appear to function this is probably a bug l This is a second If you double click the frame to edit the text it appears to be truncated but exiting text mode returns the original view As with normal drawing objects the text positioning relates not to the figure itself but to the object frame Observe that the text frame in the example on the left extends outside the ellipse Fit width to text The width of the text frame or callout is enlarged so that the longest line fits without a line break inside the object frame This is a somewhat longer line in a frame This is a second line A previously inserted manual line break here after the word longer remains in This is a somewhat longer effect line in a frame This is a second line Fit to frame The text is widened or compressed so it fits within the entire object frame This effect is the same as with normal drawing objects SAEM EMEN vin me sanos E ana BE you can produce a text frame that has this property already set Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Technique
157. oolbar as a floating toolbar In both cases the last used command will be stored on the toolbar to make it quicker to call it up again click directly on the symbol to repeat the last used command chosen from this toolbar After drawing the line you can change the arrow style by clicking on the Arrow button in the Line and Filling toolbar and choose from 13 arrow start and end options Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes 27 1 Line 5 Line 45 8 Line with square arrow 2 Line Ends with Arrow 6 Line starts with arrow 9 Dimension line 3 Line with arrow circle 7 Line with circle arrow 10 Line with arrows 4 Line with arrow square Figure 22 Arrows toolbar Drawing a rectangle or square Drawing a rectangle is similar to drawing a straight line except that you click on the Rectangle icon E on the Drawing toolbar and the imaginary line drawn by the mouse corresponds to a diagonal of the rectangle In addition the outline of the future rectangle changes shape as you drag the mouse around The outline may be Shown as a dashed line until you release the mouse button Figure 23 Drawing a rectangle Draw considers squares to be rectangles with sides of equal length Hold down the Shift key to draw a square Hold down the Alt key while dragging with the mouse to create a rectangle with its center rather than a corner at the start point where you first clicked the mouse Blue or green selection handles appear around an object made u
158. operations involving a change of file type If you cannot find what you want under File gt Save As look under File gt Export as well OpenOffice org can export files to XHTML In addition Draw can export to Adobe Flash swf and a range of image formats 22 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide To export to one of these formats choose File gt Export On the Export dialog specify a file name for the exported document then select the required format in the File format list and click the Export button See Chapter 6 Editing Pictures for more about exporting graphics The content of the exported file will depend on the element s selected on the page No selection results in the entire image being exported For most export formats only the image on the current page will be exported Note Exporting Draw documents as web pages To export a multi page Draw document to a series of web pages choose File gt Export and select HTML Document as the file type The HTML Export wizard opens Follow the prompts to creat the web pages If you wish the wizard can generate a navigation aid to help in moving from page to page E mailing documents OpenOffice org provides several ways to send documents quickly and easily as an e mail attachment in one of three formats OpenDocument OpenOffice org s default format Microsoft Office formats or PDF Documents can only be sent from the OpenOffice org menu if a mail Note profile has been
159. ors or with Format gt Area gt Colors tab see Figure 191 The latter method allows color palettes to be loaded or to be stored for future use Any modifications made to colors apply only to the currently active palette OpenOffice org always uses the RGB color model internally Other methods are also available for the definition of a color value The color values can be input directly as numbers Choose between the RGB color model base colors Red Green and Blue and CMYK base colors Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black K Key The conversion to RGB values is made automatically Information about color models can be found under Tip http en wikipedia org wiki Color model Individual color tones are produced by using different values of the base colors The color value can be any integer value between 0 and 255 As an example Red 3 has a red value of 184 a green value of 71 and a blue value of 0 in the RGB model The CMYK color model uses percentages in this case 0 44 72 and 28 respectively Change these values to manipulate the color tone Either enter a number directly or use the spinners on the right side of each field The change in color will be shown in the lower color field see Figure 191 Click the Modify button to apply and store the new setting To add a new color to the current palette enter a new name in the Name field and set the desired color values Click Add The new color will be added to the end of the p
160. ort Figure 99 Mode tear off submenu The tools are described in the following sections with the exception of the 3D rotation tool which is described in Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects Rotating an object Click on the Effects icon to select the Rotate tool Then select an object The selected object will have red handles instead of the usual green handles Grab one of the handles and move it to E rotate the object The black circle in the middle of the object is the pivot center of rotation You can move the location of the pivot with the mouse 72 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Flip an object Select an object and click on the Flip icon ad You will see a dashed line through the middle of the object This dashed line is the axis of symmetry The object will be reflected about this line Move one or both ends of the line with your mouse to set the orientation of the axis Then grab any one of the eight green handles and move it across to the other side of the dashed line The new position of the figure is shown faintly until the mouse is released If you press the Shift key while moving the line the line will rotate in 45 Note degree increments Mirror copies Officially this useful command does not yet exist in Draw It can however be easily emulated Move the axis of symmetry to the desired location of the mirror axis Copy the object to the clipboard Flip the object then click on an empty are
161. ot appear in the final output e Locked All objects on this layer are protected from deletion editing or moving No additional objects can be added to a protected layer This property is useful when a base plan is to be protected while adding a new layer with other details Right click on a layer tab to bring up a menu where you can insert or delete a layer rename an existing layer or modify a layer You can change the names of the user defined layers the default layer names cannot be changed If you choose Modify the dialog is similar to Figure 183 but you cannot edit the Name You can edit the Title and Description and change the properties of the layer Visible Printable Locked Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks 147 You can move objects on one layer while you are working on another Tip layer To avoid doing this accidentally you should lock layers that you are not currently working on An example drawing house plan and furniture A popular application for programs like Draw is the moving the furniture scenario You can easily draw the floor plan of a room or a house using Draw The simplest way is to draw walls as thick lines Draw single rectangles or polygons and combine them place them together select them then from the right click menu use Shapes gt Merge to make a single figure and add a hatching pattern Before doing this you Should read the section Drawing to scale on page 146 For this example a suitab
162. ou can add new bitmap images to serve as area fills Click on Import and choose a file you previously saved Give it a name that will make it easy to remember The last imported image will appear at the bottom of the pull down list of bitmap fills Now you can use that image as an area fill ee Clouds Figure 93 Adding your own bitmap images If the imported image seems to be very small in the preview Figure 92 Ti you probably forgot to select the image before you exported it In that Ip case the exported image would be the whole page with a small drawing on it Customizing shadows First select the object you want to apply a custom shadow to Open the Area dialog and go to the Shadow tab Figure 94 There you can customize the shadow s position distance and color Area Shadow Transparency Colors Gradients Hatching Bitmaps Properties Use shadows Co Eee ES eae Pasition s s __ Distance 0 30cm Ls Color MS Gray fa Transparency 0 Figure 94 Customizing shadows Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes 69 Shadows can also have transparency so the shadow does not hide objects behind it Figure 95 Shadow with 50 transparency Adding transparency You can make objects partly or fully transparent or even a with a varying degree of transparency as a gradient On the Transparency page Figure 96 choose Transp
163. own as percentages of the original x and y dimensions For a line much more information is given the absolute change in x and y coordinates of the end point being moved together with the current length and bearing of the modified line These are updated dynamically as the end point is moved see Figure 40 This is the only place where the exact start and end angles of an arc or the length and bearing of a sloping line are shown This information enables you to size the object with considerable accuracy Modifying an arc The beginning and end points of an arc can be modified Select the arc and click on the Points icon c on the Drawing toolbar to enter the Edit points mode described later in this chapter In this mode the handles on the selection frame change two larger blue handles appear at the beginning and end points of the arc When the mouse hovers over one of these points the cursor will change to a hand Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points 43 Figure 41 Editing an arc If you click and hold the mouse button when the hand cursor appears moving the mouse will change the location of the start or end point of the arc The actual coordinates are shown in the Status Bar see lower left graphic in Figure 40 Rotating and shearing an object using the mouse Use the red rotation handles to either rotate an object around an axis or slant or Shear the object Rotating To rotate an object or a group of objects
164. p of more than 2 points showing that this is the currently selected object The colors depend on the standard selection mode green with a normal Note selection or blue if you are in the point edit mode This effect is easily seen if both Simple Handles and Large Handles are switched on in the Options toolbar See Chapter 3 for more details on points 28 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Drawing ellipses ovals and circles To draw an ellipse also called an oval or a circle click on the Ellipse icon on the main Drawing toolbar A circle is simply an ellipse with both axes the same length The ellipse drawn is the largest ellipse that fits within the imaginary rectangle drawn by the mouse Figure 24 There are three ways to draw an ellipse or a circle Note Holding down the Shift key while dragging with the mouse draws a circle Holding down the Alt key together with the Shift key draws a symmetrical ellipse a circle with the starting point at the center Holding down the Ctrl key while dragging with the mouse draws an ellipse or circle that snaps to the nearest grid points If you first press and hold the Ctrl key down and then click on one of the icons for Line Rectangle Ellipse or Text a standard sized object is drawn automatically in the work area the size shape and color are all standard values These attributes can be changed later if desired This only works if the icon has no associated toolbar no
165. p of the shape will point towards the outside of the line Line Shadow Line Styles Arrow Styles Organize arrow styles Title Arrow Add abil am Delete Add a selected object to create new arrow styles Figure 77 Adding an arrow style Now you can access the new style from the Arrow style list Figure 78 or the Arrowheads dialog Figure 72 Line Shadow Line Styles Arrow Styles Organize arrow styles Title My Arrowhead Arrow style My Arrowhead y o 7 Add a selected object to create new arrow styles Mm 7 N Figure 78 Arrow style list 62 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Editing the inside fill of an object The OpenOffice org term for the inside of an object is Area fill The area fill of an object can be a uniform color a gradient a hatching pattern or an image It can be made partly or wholly transparent and can throw a shadow Figure 79 Different types of area fill Common fill properties In most cases you will choose one of the standard fill options whether it is a color a gradient or an image These options are all available from the Line and Filling toolbar If you want no fill at all select the object you wish to edit and on the Line and Filling toolbar select the option Invisible on the pull down list at the right of the paint can Line and Filling A Cow 00cm E Il Black Figure 80 Common fill options gt Color
166. pacing between objects 86 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Horizontal distribution None Does not distribute the objects horizontally Left The left edges of the objects are evenly spaced from one another Center The horizontal centers of the objects are evenly spaced from one another Spacing The horizontal spacing between the objects is evenly distributed Right The right edges of the objects are evenly spaced from one another Vertical distribution None Does not distribute the objects vertically Top The top edges of the objects are evenly spaced from one another Center The vertical centers of the objects are evenly spaced from one another Spacing The vertical spacing between the objects is evenly distributed Bottom The bottom edges of the objects are evenly spaced from one another Figure 114 shows four objects before distribution of horizontal spacing Figure 114 Before distribution The result of the selections made in Figure 113 is shown in Figure 115 Figure 115 After distribution change to equal horizontal spacing no vertical change Chapter 5 Combining Multiple Objects 87 m Ve OpenOffice org 3 Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics Introduction Earlier chapters of the Draw Guide have dealt only with vector graphics However Draw also contains a number of functions for handling raster graphics bitmaps such as photographs and scanned pictures including import expor
167. per corner points and the leads left X Y mm right X Y mm Input 1 X Y mm Output X Y mm 10 5 18 5 10 6 5 right EP 18 6 5 left EP For the lower input lead increase the Y coordinate of Input 1 by 5 mm to 11 5 The AND gate block is almost finished We can use it as the basis for all the other gates Use Edit gt Duplicate to ensure uniformity of shape and size so that the drawing gives a good visual impression Because we want to copy the block vertically downwards use a Placement on the X Axis of 0 mm and on the Y Axis 15 mm E a E Duplicate i Number of copies 1 Placement Xaxis 0 00mm Y axis 15 00mm S Angle 0 degrees r Enlargement Width 0 00mm Height omm E Figure 218 Duplicating an object Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 173 Using the same method copy both blocks twice more to the right Select both blocks call up the Duplicate dialog and use placement values of 30 mm X and 0 mm Y Your drawing should look similar to Figure 219 E ee S ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 3 ae Figure 219 The blocks after duplication For the INVERTER or NOT gate the connection leads must be amended Move one input and one output lead to the middle of the block and delete the superfluous input lead Draw the missing circle for negation with a diameter of 2 mm place it b
168. phics with all components of the suite For example if you create an image in Draw reusing it in a Writer document is as simple as copying and pasting the image You can also work with drawings directly from within Writer or Impress using a subset of the functions and tools from Draw Draw s functionality is extensive and even though it was not designed to rival high end graphics applications it possesses significantly more functionality than the drawing tools that are generally integrated with most office productivity suites A few examples of the drawing functions are layer management magnetic grid point system dimensions and measurement display connectors for making organization charts 3D functions that enable small three dimensional drawings to be created with texture and lighting effects drawing and page style integration and B zier Curves The Draw Guide is not a course book to be worked through from beginning to end Rather it is a reference work in which you can browse for guidance on particular topics This document describes only the functions associated with Draw Some concepts such as file management or the way the OpenOffice org environment works are mentioned only briefly they are covered in more detail in the Getting Started guide The Draw workplace The main components of the Draw interface are shown in Figure 1 The large area in the center of the window is where you make the drawings You can surround
169. picture is inverted in color right picture Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 99 Aging lends pictures a certain look resembling that of old photos The process first produces a grayscale picture from the original and then reduces the intensity of the blue and green color values so that the final picture appears darker and redder In the middle example the aging degree was set to 0 on the right it was 15 t a i J EN F 4 1 1 he i a 3 Posterize reduces the number of colors in the picture The fewer colors the more flat the picture appears In the right hand picture below the number of colors was reduced to 8 The results of this filter are not always good Wi B The Pop Art filter is supposed to change the colors of the picture to a E pop art format but unfortunately it does not seem to function correctly at present Charcoal sketch makes the picture appear as if it had been drawn with Charcoal The outlines are in black and the original colors are suppressed 100 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide il The Relief filter calculates the edges in relief of the picture and produces a picture as if illuminated by a light source the position of the illuminating light being variable and producing shadows that differ in direction and magnitude a a A a F ia AES ne Mosaic takes groups of pixels and converts them into a single color rectangular tile The whole picture appears to be
170. points to them glue points must be set before any grouping is done This will change in Draw 3 4 The glue points on the connection leads must be placed exactly at the ends of the lines otherwise the wires will not be properly aligned Unfortunately you cannot set the position of glue points using numerical values It is necessary to do it by hand 174 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide The best solution is to use the Zoom toolbar to enlarge the diagrams You can find this as a tear off toolbar on the standard Drawing toolbar It contains among others tools for zooming in and out enlarging or shrinking the view of the current page If you click on the Zoom In tool and then click on the page the scale is doubled and the view is centered on the place where you clicked As the ends of the connection leads in this example do not lie on grid points you must switch off Snap to Grid and activate Snap to Object Points When you have done this you can open the Glue Points toolbar with the Insert Glue Point icon onthe Drawing toolbar or using View gt Toolbars from the menu bar Gluepoints x B amp K amp G Figure 220 The Glue Points toolbar Select the block on which you want to insert a glue point Click the Insert Glue Point icon 2 It is now activated and appears with a different background The mouse cursor changes to a small cross and you can set the first glue point Click the mouse at the desired location If the poi
171. ptions available when exporting Draw objects can easily be imported into Writer Calc or Impress documents For objects used often this is most simply done by storing them in the Gallery or by using the clipboard As Writer and Calc do not possess the same range of tools available within Draw it makes sense to use Draw to produce a complex drawing and then to copy it into the other OOo application A link to single drawing objects is not possible but you can incorporate Draw documents in the other modules as linked OLE objects To avoid problems when scaling Draw objects containing text after importing them into Writer convert the object to a polygon before storing it in the Gallery or copying it to the clipboard See Convert to a polygon on page 105 Tip 94 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Modifying raster object properties As with other objects the properties of a raster graphic can be modified You can format the graphic using the Format menu or the context menu Use the Picture toolbar to add or change filters using the Graphic Filter Bar adjust the Lines Areas and Shadows properties The Transparency property in the Format menu does not relate to the transparency of the raster graphic itself but to the background area To set the transparency of the graphic you must use the Picture toolbar Graphics can also have a text element For more on text see Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques You can change the position
172. r describes how closely a color value in the picture must agree with the source color in order to be replaced In the figure below the red color tone at the left edge of the rectangular color palette is used as the source color and a pure blue as the replacement color with several different tolerances The original is a rectangle with color palette from red to green Because the eyedropper is not usable on drawings the rectangle on the left side was converted into a raster graphic Convert gt Bitmap The picture was then exported in a Enhanced Metafile format and inserted on the right for comparison Original RSS Pn 0 smallest valve rO 20 E 40 Pee Pn 80 ee ES oo largest value As shown the application of transparency and color replacement effects Note on raster graphics and Metafiles leads to quite different results This is a known problem which will be corrected in a future version Color depth It is possible to reduce the color depth in OOo The tools are available but you must create a separate menu and add the tools to the menu if you wish to have them available refer to OOo help if you are not sure how to do this To find the tools click on Tools gt Customize Toolbars and Add Command The commands are in the category Modify at the top of the list Reducing color depth Original with a 24 bit pixel depth 8 bits per channel Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 103
173. rary 176 symmetric transition 50 198 T tangents 50 templates 153 text anchors 168 184 text animation 183 text frames 186 text in drawings addition to draw objects 37 dynamic frames 35 fixed frames 36 text styles 183 textures of 3D objects 128 threshold apply 104 tile size 106 tolerance parameter 103 toolbars 11 basic shapes 34 block arrows 34 callouts 35 circles and ovals 30 connectors 32 curves 31 drawing 25 Edit Points 49 50 flowcharts 35 lines and arrows 27 stars and banners 35 symbol shapes 34 text formatting 36 transition points 198 transparency 70 95 96 102 137 U ungrouping 79 V vectorize 105 108 vertical distribution of objects 87 vertical text 188 W wiring diagram 172 workplace 8 Writer OLE object 193 Z zoom 11 Zoom toolbar 140 175 zoom value 139 206 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide
174. re 147 the left sphere is made up of 10 horizontal and vertical segments while the right sphere has 25 segments More segments give a smoother surface but it will take longer to generate the figure on the screen By default spheres and hemispheres are constructed with 24 segments For a square pyramid you need four horizontal segments Figure 147 Sphere made from 10 segments left and 25 segments right These are properties belonging to individual objects If you use the setting for segments on a 3D scene all the objects contained in the scene are modified accordingly If you extrude an unfilled circle or intersecting lines with a filling the result may not be what you expect In this case the Double Sided tool on the lower part of the dialog page may be able to help It changes the line properties of an object from invisible to continuous and so enables all edges to be seen Otherwise it may happen that some surfaces receive no filling see Figure 148 For lines without filling the effect is switched on by default and cannot be switched off This is also a property of single objects 2 To reduce both calculation time and data storage circles are often constructed as regular polygons If you cut a sphere or cylinder of 10 segments through the middle you end up with a 20 cornered cut section 10 cornered for a hemisphere Chapter 7 Working with 35D Objects 121 Figure 148 Left without Double Sided Middle with conti
175. rection Place the mouse cursor at the left dimensioning point Press the left mouse button and drag the mouse to the right dimensioning point Release the mouse button If you press the Shift key while dragging the mouse you will restrain the dimensioning line in a horizontal or vertical direction see Figure 230b In the same way you Can draw a vertical dimension line on the AND gate The dimensioning of the NEGATION symbol should also be simple to accomplish but it is important that for such small components you zoom in enough to accurately position the lines Editing dimension lines Dimension lines can be subsequently edited You can select single dimension lines which are displayed with four handles located at the end of the dimension lines Figure 231 20mm 20mm Ry a pe Figure 231 Editing dimension lines With the upper handles you can only change the length of the guide lines With the lower handles you can move the points that are being dimensioned If you select the dimension text you can edit the font type and size as well as changing the dimension units of the text If you only want to edit the text of the dimension double click on an unselected dimension line to enter text edit mode 182 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide All the changes that you make relate only to the selected dimension line They are stored and persistent but do not affect the settings of the Dimension Line style If you insert
176. red For example in architecture the floor plan heating and electrical wiring can all be on separate layers With complex drawings this layer technique offers many advantages You can make layers visible or invisible as needed or you can protect a layer from further changes while you work 146 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide In Draw three layers are always present by default Layout Controls and Dimension Lines Layout is the default layer when you create a new drawing LO VO Layout To change to a layer click on its tab Everything that is drawn will be placed on the currently selected layer The Controls layer is for control elements such as icons and pull down menus and is not usually used for ordinary drawing elements The Dimension Lines layer is used whenever you insert a dimension line on a drawing unless the layer is made invisible Use Insert gt Layer to insert a new layer into a drawing Figure 183 Insert Layer Name lLayer4 Title i Description Visible Printable F Locked Figure 183 Inserting a new layer Oo On the Insert Layer dialog you can specify the following properties e Visible If this property is not activated the layer will not be shown the layer is removed from the stack e Printable If this property is not activated the layer will not be printed This is useful if you use a draft layer for guides or annotations that you use in making the drawing but should n
177. red in the Gallery Objects can be dragged from the Gallery to the Draw surface quite simply Working with the Gallery is dealt with in Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques Inserting from a file With this option you can insert complete pages or single objects from existing Draw or Impress documents into your Draw document In addition you can insert text in Rich Text Format RTF HTML format or plain text The text will be contained within a text frame The usual paragraph and character formatting options are available for this text Choosing Insert gt File brings up the File selection dialog Select the required file and click Insert If the file is a Draw or Impress document the Insert Slides Objects dialog Figure 118 opens To access single pages or slides of the document click on the expansion symbol usually a or a small triangle depending on your operating system to the left of the file name in the selection area The same method is used to display single objects within slides Raster graphics for example photos and Metafiles are marked with a Oy drawing objects with a and OLE objects with a a Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 91 Insert Slides Objects ks ijd a Slide 1 Ja BlueRectangle _ W PhotoJean cance f RedLineArrow Formula Help ju SampleTextOLEobject _ e GreenEllipse E Slide 2 ae Object 5 4 E Link Delete unused backgrounds Figur
178. rightness 100 You can change the color spread in this window to a more specific range by changing one or more of the corner fields Click on the corner you want to change then select the preferred color from the right color window with the mouse and or set it using the number fields Now click on the lt arrow the new color will be assigned to the corner square you selected and the overall appearance of the window changes accordingly 156 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide acip Cyan o A T A Yellow az S Green i25 i Saturation 46 la Key 9 Blue so Brightness 90 Figure 193 Changing the color of a corner square dikdi F q F Creating cool effects Duplication Duplication makes copies of an object while applying a set of changes such as color or rotation to the duplicates To start duplication click on an object or group and choose Edit gt Duplicate The Duplicate dialog Figure 195 appears Figure 194 Duplication example Figure 195 Duplicate dialog Choose the number of copies their separation placement rotation and so on The choices above applied to a blue rectangle produce the result shown in Figure 194 Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks 157 Cross fading Cross fading transforms one shape into another The result is a new group of objects including the two end points and the intermediate steps Figure 196 Cross fading example To do a cross fade first select
179. rom one view to another Figure 133 3D objects from basic shapes 114 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide If you click on such an object the 3D Settings toolbar is available If this is not automatically opened switch it on with View gt Toolbars gt 3D Settings x _ 965 F e Fure 134 3D Settings toolbar The first icon ii corresponds to the icon on the Drawing toolbar This icon also works as a toggle switch After changing to 2D the 3D Settings toolbar is again hidden To change the object back to 3D you must use the icon w on the Drawing toolbar Variation 5 Fontwork For text you can also use the shapes from the Fontwork Gallery These produce a similar type of extrusion objects to those from Variation 4 To open the Fontwork Gallery use the icon B on the Drawing toolbar Fontwork Gallery Select a Fontwork style Figure 135 Extrusion Shapes from the Fontwork Gallery If you save a document with extruded shapes in the older sxw format Note the shapes will be converted to 3D scenes Chapter 7 Working with 35D Objects 115 Editing 3D objects Rotating 3D objects Procedure for 3D bodies The Rotation command used for 2D objects also works with 3D objects but due to the additional axis there are a few differences with the editing of 3D objects see Figure 136 The procedure for selecting the object is identical to that used for a 2D object X axis Figure
180. rst letter of a chapter in a special font convert the graphic to a polygon using no point reduction or background tiling Use Modify gt Break to generate two polygons An example is shown below Original polygon converted from a Metafile Break the graphic into two polygons After the conversion there are two polygons one with the visible letter and another polygon not visible because the lines and area filling are all in white You can select this invisible polygon by E m pressing the Tab button click on the visible letter first then press Tab this moves the current selection to the next object In the example at the left the invisible polygon has been moved to the side If you have Display Grid active and the grid points set to display behind objects you can see where this invisible polygon is since it obscures the grid points behind it This invisible polygon encloses the letter After changing lines and or area to a different color the polygon becomes visible 108 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Convert to bitmap All drawing objects are vector graphics Use the command Convert gt To Bitmap from the context menu to convert a vector graphic to a raster graphic Draw creates the raster graphic in PNG format with a color depth of 24 bits Unfortunately any transparency effects which were created in the vector graphic are lost in this conversion although the PNG format used in Draw does support transparency On
181. s 150 layers 146 152 light source 127 Line and Filling toolbar 12 56 line connectors 165 Line dialog 96 line distance 180 line pattern 64 67 line properties 58 line styles customizing 60 lines connecting and breaking 202 lines editing 57 linking 90 Load Slide Design dialog 153 logic circuit diagram 172 M Master view 152 measure below object 180 merging objects 82 metafile 91 94 107 mindmaps 164 mirror copies 73 modifying raster object properties 95 mosaic 101 move points 51 move to front or back 83 multiple pages 150 N Navigator 92 nesting groups 80 normals 122 O object specific effect 122 objects adjusting size 41 arranging 41 dynamic movement 42 dynamic size modification 43 editing points 48 framing 40 hidden 40 moving 41 re sizing 42 46 rotating 44 47 selecting 40 Slanting 45 OLE objects editing mode 193 inserting 193 object mode 194 Options toolbar 14 39 organization charts 160 164 P page backgrounds 151 page margins 9 Pages area 151 152 pasting from the clipboard 91 path 197 PDF export documents to 22 Phong shading 124 Picture editing toolbar 95 pictures and text 190 point reduction 106 point types changing 198 polygon 105 polylines 188 202 pop art filter 100 Position and Size dialog 172 positioning objects 83 posterize filter 100 Print dialog 18 print file directly 17 Print options with raster graphics 109 printing black and white on color printer 21
182. s 189 Fit height to text somewhat longer line in a frame This is a second The height of the text frame or callout is enlarged so that all lines fit within the height of the object frame Pictures and text Pictures also possess a text element You can use this text element to place lettering over the picture or to give the picture a caption To format this text proceed in the Same way as for a normal rectangle Usually you produce text as a separate object and then group it with the picture because this gives you more flexibility Here are two examples showing what is technically possible with text elements bi Holiday tab Font Comic Sans MS Bold 40pt tab Alignment Options Right tab Text Text anchor upper right and Spacing to borders right 0 5 cm top 0 5 cm others 0 0 cm 4 ag ae F me pn cs 3 a a n a Ai Ae ge e S L A Sra ead i ite e So eae OA cry ta r a eo tm 5 i pers et ee Sei 2 Ie aia A Where the mountains meet the sea empty beaches invite long walks tab Font Bitstream Vera Serif 14pt tab Alignment Options Left tab Text Text anchor lower left and Spacing to borders bottom 1 3 cm Note the line break after the word sea was inserted manually 190 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide tab Font Effect color white with shadows The construction of each example was
183. s been rotated in the meantime By default the scaling is set to 100 which results in both surfaces being scaled by the same amount If you set this scaling to 50 the cylinder becomes a truncated cone see Figure 144 Figure 144 Cylinder with 50 scaling The diameter of the front side is 50 that of the rear side It is also possible to create the reverse effect with the rear side smaller than the front by using a scaling depth greater than 100 With rotation bodies this parameter influences the width of the surface parallel to the axis of rotation At the end of the rotation the surface width of the figure is given by the scaling depth The distance to the rotation axis remains unchanged In Figure 145 a line is rotated to create a 3D object with a scaling depth figure of 0 Figure 145 Scaling depth of a rotation body 120 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide The Rotation Angle parameter is only available for rotation bodies With this parameter you can create a segment of a complete rotation body by choosing an angle less than 360 degrees Figure 146 shows a hemisphere with a rotation angle of 270 Figure 146 Hemisphere with a rotation angle of 270 The Horizontal and Vertical Segments parameters define the number of segments out of which Draw builds spheres and rotation objects2 For rotation objects the horizontal segments are more important The vertical segments influence the degree of edge rounding In Figu
184. s in the left box In the S Replace with selection list the option Source color Tolerance Replace with Transparent is already selected Click on xo m 0o S C Transparent the Replace button at the top right of the o pos S C Transparent box to carry out the changes to the picture o 10 H C Transparent gt There is no preview of the effect If the 10 FS C Transparent result is not what you wanted choose Edit L Transparency gt Undo The dialog does not close automatically so you can carry out further color replacements Mark first the field for the Source color and choose again the color with the eyedropper Close the dialog with Ctrl F4 or the Close icon on the window border Draw uses a separate Alpha channel for transparency so that pixels of different colors can be made transparent It is also possible to carry out the operation in reverse to change a transparent area to a color Select nothing in the graphic but choose the Transparency option at the lower left of the dialog and the replacement color at the lower right 102 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide The selection list for replacement colors shows all the available colors in the current color palette of the document You cannot define any new colors here but you can add colors to the available palette before using the eyedropper tool For more on this topic see Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks Effect of the tolerance parameter The tolerance paramete
185. section select whether to print all pages or only some pages 4 Click the Print button Selecting pages to print In addition to printing a full document you can choose to print individual pages ranges of pages or a selection of a document Chapter 1 Introducing Draw 19 Range and copies All pages Number of copies 1 Pages 1 5 es ws Piece Collate Sel Sel To print an individual page 1 Choose File gt Print from the menu bar 2 Select the page to print a In the Ranges and copies section of the Print dialog select the Pages option b Enter the number of the page to print 3 Click the Print button To print a range of pages 1 Choose File gt Print from the menu bar 2 Select the pages to print a In the Ranges and copies section of the Print dialog select the Pages option b Enter the number of the pages to print for example 1 4 or 1 3 7 11 or any combination of the two for example 1 4 5 9 10 3 Click the Print button To print a selection of a page or a selection from multiple pages 1 In the document select the section of the page to print 2 Choose File gt Print from the menu bar 3 Choose the Selection option in the Ranges and copies section of the Print dialog 4 Click the Print button Printing a brochure In Writer Impress and Draw you can print a document with two pages on each side of a sheet of paper arranged so that when the printed pages are folded in half the pa
186. segment is transformed into a straight line The type of the segment end point remains as it was If all segments are straight lines Draw converts the object to a polygon or a polyline Transform complete curves polylines and polygons Transform a polygon or a polyline into a curve Select the whole polygon or polyline The object does not need to be in point mode Choose Convert to curve from the context menu or the Modify menu The points in the resulting curve are all of the type Corner point and the control points lie on the curve segments All the segments thus appear as straight lines Transform a curve into a polygon ora polyline Select the whole curve Choose Convert to polygon from the context menu or the Modify menu The curve does not need to be in point mode to do this The individual segments are not replaced by straight lines Instead additional points are generated on the curve so that the line of the polygon polyline matches that of the curve as closely as possible These points are placed closer together as the curvature increases before ZN after Freehand lines You can also produce a curved line from a B zier curve using the freehand line tool This tool automatically inserts anchor points and control points to render the curve as close as possible to the original B zier curve Place the mouse cursor at the beginning point and keep the mouse button pressed until you reach the end of the curve As soon as you rel
187. ssississivsreisissinsisiorinissreurieradokn nisn rin Tisi r E n ana 139 Positioning objects with snap functionS esssseesesesresrsseeseresreseeseesesrereseeseeseeseeseee 140 Breas esse cee E NE E T IE EO E E E N E A EA 146 Splitting drawings on multiple layerS oseoesseseeeresesresrssesreseesesresessesreseeeseeesreeseees 146 Creating a multi page document eeessesesesseseeseesesreresseseesesreserseeseseeseseeseeseeseseesset 150 Color palette adding or changing Single ColorS sessseesrssesreseesesessessessesesreseesesee 153 Changing colors using the Color dialog coseseesesessesrssesseresseseeseesesreseseesreseeseeseet 155 Ce E T ia 0h EN AR 157 Chapter 9 Organization Charts Flow Diagrams and MoOre e sssesssesssessesesreseeresresesseseeesreeseees 159 Drawing an organization chart sesesseerssesreseereseesesresresessessoreseeesersserseereseesreeseees 160 Drawing a ow dagran Meee een nen eet ne ne mene wee a aiae 162 Glue poini and a aise cota sate deca nna RNE EEE E 164 Adding text to OCC iesise eraa E 168 Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Wore 6101S Vo eee ne ii nee ee ee ne E et are 171 NPE CE PATE E ues area E A IAE EATE AAT EEE TEA E 172 Dimensioning a drawili e rsrsisrrinsisriersiirei rar rd nra E EEEE ERETNA RE 180 a a pease EEEE EE 183 Gude to yA ley a 6 0 gal oo eee een ee eee ee ene ee ee en eee ee ae ore Se Pee ee een ee 196 4 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Adding commenls to a Pa
188. sues vlja Fill with a uniform color Select the object you wish to edit On the Line and Filling toolbar select Color on the pull down list at the right of the paint can and then choose a color from the right hand menu B Eac Colour AC m Fea Ae we es oles Fe rR a Turquoise 6 BR Turquoise 7 GR Turgucise 8 Green 1 RE Green 2 P Green 3 Green 4 A y gt Y q MR Green 5 4 Figure 81 Filling with a color Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes 63 Fill with a gradient Select the object you wish to edit On the Line and Filling toolbar select Gradient and then choose a gradient from the right hand menu Black Gradient gt MEAE a Fa l 4 lee GE ee eee le Gradient 1 MS Gradient 2 Gradient 3 GE Gradient 4 MS Gradient 5 J E Gradient 6 E Linear blue white oes ME Radial green black Figure 82 Filling with a gradient A p gt Fill with a line pattern The OOo term for line patterns is Hatching Select the object you wish to edit On the Line and Filling toolbar select Hatching and then choose an option from the menu MMM Bleck amp Hatching EES Black O degrees EZA Black 45 degrees Black 45 degrees m A F UN Black SO degrees Zool o lB e 16 17e 18 Hesa Red crossed 45 degrees Red crossed 0 degrees eee Blue crossed 45 degrees m Blue crossed O degrees e Figure 8
189. t and conversion from one format to another Draw can read all the usual graphics file formats It has a subset of the same capabilities as specialized raster graphics programs like Adobe Photoshop or The Gimp Importing raster and vector graphics To import stored graphics files choose Insert gt Picture gt From File on the menu bar or click the cay icon on the Draw toolbar Draw possesses import filters for many different vector and raster graphics formats If your file has a nonstandard extension you must choose the format explicitly when importing it A filter for svg scaleable vector graphics files is available as an extension http extensions services openoffice org en project svgimport Note but rather than using Insert gt Picture gt From File just open the svg file with File gt Open The SVG graphic is translated during the import into OOo graphics primitives If you select the Preview option in the Insert picture dialog Figure 116 Draw Shows a preview of the picture in the box on the right hand side This makes it much easier to choose the picture you want and to see whether Draw can import a file of this format Insert picture home martin Pictures Holidays 200610 Paris i dScO2843 jpg Graphics jpg 11 16 2006 21 35 58 DSCO2843 JPG Graphics jpg 10 06 2006 19 35 53 i dSc02844 jpg Graphics jpg 11 16 2006 21 35 59 DSCO2844 PG Graphics jpg 10 05 2006 13 46 58
190. t in images does not work here because it puts you into the OLE object s edit mode Whether it makes sense to use a text element within text like this is questionable Guide to Bezier curves Bezier curves what are they p OpenOffice org uses cubic B zier curves A curve is defined 1 by means of a start point Po an end point P3 and two control points P and P2 see the figure at left For points on the curve the terms nodes or anchors are often used 5 For the mathematical background of B zier curves see http en wikipedia org wiki Bezier curve B zier curves are very useful for experimenting with the shape and form of curves In point mode you can change the curve alignment by dragging the points with the mouse The curve leaves the starting point Po in the direction of the control point P1 and arrives at the end point P3 from the direction of the control point P2 These directions are shown in Draw by blue lines The more distant a control is from its starting or end point the smaller the curvature at that point If a control point lies directly on one of these points it has no influence on the curve Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 195 Direct drawing of a Bezier curve Open the Curve toolbar by clicking on the small n black triangle of the nau symbol on the Drawing toolbar Click on the Curve icon El The mouse cursor changes to Click on the starting point of the curve and keep the mouse butto
191. t in variations are possible At present only Wireframe and Matt are correctly rendered left Wireframe right Matt You can also choose a gradient hatching or bitmap for the surface these are only applied to the extruded surface the sides remain in the color of the object 3D Color amp Here you can choose the color of the sides of the extruded surface The symbol shows the color of the most recently chosen shape object Combining objects in 3D scenes 3D objects produced by extrusion or rotation are shown in the status bar as a 3D scene You can group together several of these objects Other object types cannot be so grouped Management of the group is carried out in the same way as described in other parts of this guide Modify gt Enter Group or Modify gt Exit Group see also Grouping Objects in Chapter 5 Combining Multiple Objects As an example we will produce a game piece 134 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide First produce both objects independently of each other The subsequent combination is made easier if you use parallel projection and rotate the objects into an upright straight position Click on the sphere and use Edit gt Copy to take over the scene and put the sphere on the clipboard If you are sure that you do not need the original anymore you can use Edit gt Cut In any case move the sphere a little to the side Click now on the cone The status bar will show 3D Scene sele
192. tches in the row Mode you can control whether the texture of the selected objects is rendered with light and shadows Switch 2 or not Switch 1 see Figure 161 Appropriate lighting and shading adjustments allow the graphic object to be more realistically rendered Chapter 7 Working with 35D Objects 129 Figure 161 Texture without a and with b lighting and shadow effects Projection X Y With one of these three buttons you can determine how the texture for this coordinate axis should be projected onto the object The default setting Object specific usually gives the best result Examples of the use of each button are shown below Obiect svecific The texture is automatically adjusted for a best fit J p with the form and size of the object Parallel The texture is projected parallel to the axis of the object It is mirrored on the rear side of the object o Ci The axis of the texture pattern is wrapped around ircular the object For a rotation body the turning axis is the Z axis and the wrapping is the X direction for an extrusion body the extrusion direction is the Z axis and the extruded surface is the X direction Depending on how the object was produced different positions of the texture result L orenotice ors Projection X Projection X Projection X a 5 Area fill without tiling with adjustments Projection Y Projection Y o Difference is small Fro
193. ted object its outline will appear briefly through the objects covering it In the illustration to the right the square located beneath the circle was selected in this way the circle has been made semi transparent in order to show the square Arranging objects In a complex drawing several objects may be stacked on top of one another To rearrange the stacking order move an object to the front or to the back of the stack select the object click Modify gt Arrange and choose Bring Forward or Send Backward Or right click the object choose Arrange from the context menu then choose Bring Forward or Send Backward These options are also available from the Arrange tear off toolbar accessible from the it icon on the Drawing toolbar A keyboard shortcut is Shift Ctrl plus sign to bring an object to the top and Shift Ctrl minus sign to send an object to the bottom Note however that an object located on the Controls layer always lies above all other objects Moving and dynamically adjusting an object s size There are several ways of moving or changing the size of an object The dynamic method described here uses the mouse When you dynamically change an object remember to check the left hand area of the status bar at the bottom of the Draw window This area shows detailed information about the ongoing manipulation Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points 4 926 J7 26 25 44 Dimension Lines AAAF L
194. ter filter but this time with a point picture to the left posterized and reduction of 4 pixels and a tile size of vectorized the polygons were split with 16 pixels Modify gt Break and a number in this case 6 of the foreground polygons were deleted until the resulting background was achieved Note To select polygons for deletion click on a curved colored area the text in the status bar shows Polygon nnn corners selected where nnn is the number of corners of the polygon and a frame with green handles encloses the area of the polygons selected Press Delete to delete the polygons Repeat until you have achieved the desired effect which here is to have only the background showing If you next split the existing Metafile Modify gt Split access is gained to individual polygons To be able to operate on these together you should immediately group them after splitting With this vectorized form of the image you can carry out operations familiar from classic drawing programs for example a curved warping operation For such transformations it is much less effort to use a conversion with background tiles so that the edges of the picture are straight Chapter 6 Editing Pictures Raster Graphics 107 Using the graphic generated in the posterize and vectorize process above Break and Split it and then try out some operations using the tools on the Effects toolbar To use this tool to vectorize the fi
195. ter graphic 93 as a vector graphic 93 aS PDF 22 directly as PDF 22 graphics 92 to other formats 22 extrusion 112 eyedropper 101 F fields 152 file formats 92 fill color creating 65 fill holes 106 fill properties 63 fill editing 63 filter toolbar 98 fit width and height 139 flat normal effect 122 flat shading 124 flip an object 73 floating toolbar 16 flowchart flow diagram 162 164 focal length 125 Fontwork dialog 169 Fontwork Gallery 115 191 freehand line 200 front bring object to 158 G Gallery 175 Gamma value 96 geometry 3D effects 119 Glue Point Relative button 167 glue points 32 editing 166 Glue Points toolbar 175 inserting 166 setting 174 Gouraud shading 124 gradient fill 64 gradients 76 fill 66 transparency 76 graphic filter toolbar 98 graphics mode 95 grayscale 104 grayscale printing 109 grid 15 grid points 140 141 grid settings 141 148 grouping objects 79 guide distance 180 guide lines 15 145 guide overhang 180 204 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide H half adder 176 handles 39 hatching 64 hidden objects 40 horizontal distribution of objects 87 HSB color model 155 hyphenation 186 188 I illumination color 132 illumination of 3D objects 126 image 64 import filters 89 importing Draw objects 91 Impress objects 91 scanned images 90 Insert Layer dialog 147 intersecting objects 82 invert colors 98 invert normals 123 L layer changing object
196. tersection of two snap lines Inserting a snap line with the mouse To insert a snap line in a drawing 1 Hover the mouse cursor over the vertical ruler to create a vertical snap line or over the horizontal ruler to create a horizontal snap line Click and hold the left mouse button 2 Drag the mouse into the drawing area to produce a snap line The snap line can be moved at any time by dragging it with the mouse Moving a snap line will not however move any objects that have already been snapped to that line Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks 143 Inserting snap points and snap lines using coordinates The command Insert gt Snap point line opens a dialog where you can specify X and Y coordinates and choose the type of snap object point vertical line or horizontal line You can also access this menu by right clicking in the draw area and selecting Insert Snap Point Line Figure 178 Setting a snap object type and b snap object position using X Y coordinates Editing snap points and snap lines All snap objects can be edited after setting them If you right click on a snap object an appropriate menu opens allowing you to edit or delete the snap object Snap points and lines can also be deleted by dragging them entirely off of the page Snap to page edge With this function you can snap objects to the page edge It is also possible to combine this with snap lines and snapping to grid ad Figure 179 Objects positioned
197. the buttons on this toolbar you can adjust the extrusion depth and perspective lighting and material properties as well as the extrusion color There are tear off bars which you open by clicking on the small black triangle The purpose of each individual button is described by its tool tip You do not need to assign the result of any of the functions to the object as you do with the 3D Effects dialog used with 3D scenes every action is immediately applied and you can see its effect on the object in the main Draw window The program may sometimes seem to generate the wrong formatting with shape objects The exact cause is not known but you can undo the Note action with Format gt Default Formatting One reason for bad formatting can be that you have used a function from the 3D Effect dialog on a 3D shape Here are some examples of formatting of 3D shapes Depth E left 0 3cm user defined right 1cm selection Direction F The examples show columns at right angles to the drawing surface left 5 cm depth Parallel projection Middle 10 cm depth Perspective right Infinity Perspective Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects 133 Illumination The light color cannot be changed the brightness can be changed only in three levels and some effects may not be rendered with total correctness left from left under dim middle from left under bright right from right under normal Surface i Only four buil
198. the drawing area with toolbars and information areas The number and position of the visible tools vary with the task in hand and user preferences Therefore your setup may look different For example many users put the main Drawing toolbar on the left hand side of the workspace not at the bottom as shown here You can split drawings in Draw over several pages Multi page drawings are used mainly for presentations The Pages pane on the left side of the Draw window in Figure 1 gives an overview of the pages that you create If the Pages pane is not visible on your setup you can enable it from the View menu View gt Page Pane To make changes to the page order just drag and drop one or more pages In Draw 3 3 the maximum size of a drawing page is 300 cm by 300 cm 8 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Untitled 1 OpenOffice org Draw er x File Edit View Insert Format Tools Modify Window Help EE Pages 6543241 123 45 6 7 8 9 1011121314151617 18192021 22 2324 25262 3222120191817161514131211109 8 7 6 Slide 1 Dimension Lines HAF Layout Conte M m T 2 79 9 0 9 mP FATTO E E iu 0 56 22 26 1 0 00 x 0 00 Slide 1 1 Default O er amp 48 Figure 1 Initial Draw window Rulers You should see rulers bars with numbers on the upper and left hand sides of the workspace If they are not visible you can enable them by selecting them from the View menu View gt Ruler The rulers show the si
199. the line The line just drawn has all the standard line attributes such as color and line style To change any of these properties select the line by clicking on it then right click and select Line While you are working with a line or any other element you can use the information field on the status bar to monitor the activity A description of the current activity or selection is shown when you are working with elements Figure 21 shows two examples 26 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide zg 28 af 26 25 24 23 2 a a HI Layout Controls lt R gt me T ne 0 e m aAA Create Line dx 6 59 dy 4 62 l 8 05 35 01 it 0 91 27 12 re 6 59 x 4 62 Slide 1 1 F x 3 n 2 ws g Pu CONC Dimension Lines lt 7 IRI A M T O h B xX K F HAEG Figure 21 The information area in the status bar Drawing an arrow Arrows are drawn like lines Draw classifies arrows as a subgroup of lines lines with arrowheads The information field on the status bar shows them only as lines Click on the Line Ends with Arrow icon md to draw an arrow Drawing lines and arrows If you added the lines and arrows toolbar to the main Drawing toolbar you can click on the small black triangle on the Lines and Arrows icon on the Drawing toolbar to open a toolbar with ten tools for drawing lines and arrows Figure 22 Alternatively View gt Toolbars gt Arrows opens the t
200. ting point A straight line is used to connect the curves The behavior of connected curves cannot at present be modified It is not obvious in advance how the transition properties of the connected curves are calculated nor which end points will be connected It is therefore a good idea to work on a copy and try out the effect with different positions of the end points of the individual curves To avoid changes to a shape first set the property of the new connection point to the type Corner point Adding comments to a drawing Starting with OOo 3 2 Draw supports comments formerly called notes similar to those in Writer and Calc To insert a comment choose Insert gt Comment from the menu bar A small box containing your initials appears in the upper left hand corner of the Draw page with a larger text box beside it Draw has automatically added your name and the date at the bottom of this text box Jean Hollis Weber Today 03 44 Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 201 Type or paste your comment into the text box You can optionally apply some basic formatting to parts of the text by selecting it right clicking and choosing from the pop up menu From this menu you can also delete the current comment all the comments from the same author or all the comments in the document You can move the small comment markers to anywhere you wish on the page Typically you might place it on or near an object you refer to in the comment
201. tomizing OpenOffice org in the Getting Started guide That chapter also describes how to customize menus Quick printing Click the Print File Directly icon to send the entire document to the default printer defined for your computer You can change the action of the Print File Directly icon to send the document to the printer defined for the document instead of the default Note printer for the computer Go to Tools gt Options gt Load Save gt General and select the Load printer settings with the document option Chapter 1 Introducing Draw 17 Controlling printing For more control over printing use the Print dialog File gt Print or Ctrl P amp Print General OpenOffice org Draw Page Layout Options Printer Lexmark E232 Se Properties Range and copies All pages Number of copies n Pages L5 F W Collate A Sex Selection Figure 17 The Print dialog The options selected on the Print dialog apply to this printing of this document only Note To specify default printing settings for OpenOffice org go to Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Print and Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw Print The Print dialog has four tabs from which you can choose a range of options as described in the following sections Selecting general printing options On the General tab of the Print dialog you can choose e The printer from the printers available e Which pages to print t
202. tself automatically around the remaining points after subtraction Select one or more points to delete You can select several points by holding down the Shift key O When you have selected the points you want to delete Ks click the Delete Points button The selected points disappear from the curve which then reforms around the remaining points O You can also delete the selected points by pressing the Del key on the keyboard Use the Split Curve button to split or cut a curve at the location of the selected handle If the object is filled it will be emptied because the curve that represented the edge is no longer closed Check that you have selected the correct handle 0 click the Split Curve button and notice that the object is no longer filled You can then check by moving the point that the curve has indeed been separated If you have an open curve the start point of the curve is larger than the others You can also separate a curve at several points Simultaneously Keep the Shift key pressed down and select all of the points at which the cut should occur Drag and drop segments with the mouse to move them from the original curve OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide To close an existing curve select an open curve and click on the Close Bezier button The opening point is identified by a slightly larger handle Figure 62 Figure 62 Closing an open curve a ee The Eliminate Points button bu
203. tton only functions with lines with multiple points 1 Se pi J If the button is active click on a point hold the mouse a ect object set button down and move the mouse to draw virtual straight IL points moade lines between the neighboring left and right points Release the mouse button when the two lines have more or less coalesced into one straight line The point is deleted and the new line replaces the previous two lines eliminating one point 2 Note that this only works when the angle between the two Draw virtual lines lines Shown dashed in Figure 63 is less than a certain amount In the Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org Draw gt Grid window there are options for snap settings relating to editing points when rotating and in point reduction mode J Release mouse button Bba o Figure 63 Reducing a line by one point Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points 53 Figure 64 Moving a point on a curve The Rotate function from the Effects drop down button on the Drawing toolbar and the Rotation Mode after Clicking Object button on the Options toolbar can be used in Edit Point mode In this case it can be used to move single points around the contour of an object Switch into rotation mode by clicking on either of the rotation buttons Notice that in rotation mode all of the tangent points become red dots Select the point to be moved and then drag it around the contour while keepi
204. uide Figure 102 Set an image in a circle with perspective Set to circle slant o Select an object and click on the Set to Circle slant a icon Draw will ask if you want to transform the object to a curve This is a necessary step before distortion so click Yes Then you can move the object handles to give a pseudo three dimensional slant perspective Figure 103 Set an image to a circle with slant perspective Not Transforming an object into a curve is a safe operation but it cannot be DEE reversed other than by clicking the Undo button Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes 79 Dynamic gradients You can control transparency gradients in the same manner as color gradients Both types of gradient can be used together With a transparency gradient the direction and degree of an object s fill color changes from opaque to transparent in a regular gradient the fill changes from one color to another but the degree of transparency remains the same If you have assigned transparency to an object with a color fill you can control the transparency by clicking on the Transparency icon e To define a transparent gradient select an object choose a transparency fill from the Line and Filling toolbar The transparency icon is now active When you click on this icon a dashed line connecting two squares appears on the object Move the two squares to modify the gradient You can define the direction of the gradient vertical
205. ul when the final position of the object is not yet determined When you move the object Draw automatically selects the optimal location for the connector ends see Figure 208 Figure 208 Connector attached to the middle of an object Chapter 9 Organization Charts Flow Diagrams and More 165 As with all other objects connectors have one or more control points to simplify the construction of the drawing You can use these points to change the shape length and proportions of the connector line see Figure 209 i Figure 209 Control points of a connector To remove a connector from an object either move the end of the connector away from the glue point of the object or simply delete the connector entirely Editing glue points Glue points can be edited using a separate toolbar see Figure 210 This toolbar appears when you click on the Glue Points icon ri or select Edit gt Glue Points from the main menu Glue points 7 ao amp amp Figure 210 The Glue points toolbar The following briefly describes the function of each button on this toolbar Use this button to insert a new glue point into an object you have drawn If the object is filled you can place a glue point anywhere inside the object or on its frame With unfilled objects you can place a glue point only on the outside frame but you can then drag it inside the object provided that the Glue Points icon on the Drawing toolbar is still active
206. up a group made of other groups you are left with individual groups that you can then ungroup further until only single objects remain Combining objects In contrast to grouping functions combinations create a new object it is not possible to edit an individual constituent afterwards Select a collection of objects then right click and choose Combine from the pop up menu or use the keyboard shortcut Control Shift K The result of this operation is shown in Figure 108 om Figure 108 Combining objects 80 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide At first glance the appearance of the combined objects can seem rather surprising However once you understand the rules governing combination in Draw it will become clearer e The attributes for example area fill of the resulting object are those of the object furthest back In this example it is the circle e Where the objects overlap the overlapping zone is either filled or empty depending on the number of overlaps When the number of overlaps is even you get an empty space when the number is odd you get a filled area Figure 109 Odd numbered overlaps are filled even numbered overlaps are empty You can reorder objects before combining them so that they are further Tip back or further forward right click on the object and select Arrangement from the pop up menu See also Aids for positioning objects on page 83 An object which is a combination can be broken up ag
207. up and down arrow buttons to move it to the desired position on the toolbar 5 To remove the simple Ellipse icon from the Drawing toolbar click to highlight it in the Customize dialog and press the Delete key or click the Modify button and choose Delete from the drop down menu 6 Click OK to complete the process You should now see this Ellipse icon onthe Drawing toolbar If you use this icon instead of the standard Ellipse icon all the extended ellipse functions are available Clicking on the black arrow by the icon opens the floating Circles and Ovals toolbar Figure 26 ecb COOGGCOUL Figure 26 Circles and Ovals toolbar 30 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Drawing elliptical and circular arcs To draw an arc choose the appropriate Arc symbol in the Circles and Ovals toolbar Drag with the mouse to create a guide circle or ellipse Release the mouse button and move the cursor to the position where you want the arc to start In the status bar you can measure the actual angle in degrees Single click this point the circle or ellipse disappears and moving the mouse creates the arc Again the status bar shows the current angle When you have drawn the arc to the length you want click once more The drawing of the arc is complete Curves The tools for drawing curves or polygons are on the toolbar that appears when you click the Curve icon on the Drawing toolbar This toolbar contains eight tools F
208. ure by which parallel surfaces are moved to create a 3D object is known as extrusion In this case the 2D surface is moved forwards out of the drawing level At the same time the object is slightly tilted and central projection turned on so that one can better recognize the object Draw uses a default value for the extrusion the body depth based on the size of the 2D object The value can be changed after the extrusion see Editing 3D objects on page 116 Variation 2 Body rotation Choose a common drawing object for example a non black line Then change this into a rotation body Draw provides two methods to do this Method 1 Click the icon oil in the Drawing toolbar this icon also usually needs to be made visible or choose Modify gt Convert gt To 3D Rotation object With this rotation method the axis of rotation coincides with the left edge of the enclosing selection rectangle through the green rectangle handles 112 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Figure 129 Rotation body created using variation 2 1 Method 2 Click the icon amp on the Effects pull down menu on the Drawing toolbar This icon can also be accessed from the Mode menu accessible from View gt Toolbars gt Mode Notice that this icon lacks the curved red arrow of the fixed axis rotation icon With this method you can change the location of the rotation axis which appears as a dotted line with two white circular endpoi
209. use this background This a convenient way for example to place a logo on every page Master pages are organized in layers just like normal pages The layers of normal pages are associated with the layer of the same name on the Master page Accordingly the layers Layout Control Dimension Lines are considered to be a unit and the Master page layer Background objects is associated with them With Insert gt Fields you can insert the date time page number author and filename No other fields are available With page number you cannot insert a fixed page number but only a variable the actual number appears on the page itself and is determined by the position of the page The number is automatically adjusted if the page is subsequently moved Assigning and managing page backgrounds You can open the Slide Design dialog Figure 189 in two ways e Right click on the page and choose Page gt Slide design or e Look in the status bar to see which background page is the current one Double click in this field The Slide Design dialog Figure 189 shows the available background pages for that page 152 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Slide Design Select a slide design lyt blackandwhite Exchange background page E Delete unused backgrounds Figure 189 Slide design dialog If the Exchange background page option is selected the selected background page will be used on all pages of the document not just on the currently acti
210. ut layer and hide Layer4 to show chest with drawers closed If you copy a drawing object to the Clipboard or into the Gallery all Caution layers other than the three standard layers Layout Controls and Dimension Lines are lost Furthermore all objects are pasted into the A Layout layer The reconstruction of layers is much easier if you assemble objects on a layer into a group before copying Changing the layer of a drawing object Draw has no direct command to change layers To move an object to another layer change to the new layer select the desired object or group and then cut and paste it into position Watch the status bar the selected object s layer name is shown in the information field to follow and check the change You can also click on the object hold the mouse button pressed for about two seconds until the mouse cursor changes from a hand to a pointer with an open rectangle and then drag and drop it on the appropriate layer Creating a multi page document Draw documents like presentation Impress documents can consist of multiple pages As in Impress tools to manage pages and backgrounds are available Pages are automatically named as Slide 1 Slide 2 and so on This description is relative if you move pages around they are automatically renumbered If you want to have fixed slide page names you must name them yourself Page names are useful for working with the Navigator and when you want to insert s
211. ve page The Delete unused backgrounds option deletes any backgrounds as shown in the Slide Design dialog that have not been assigned to a page Click the Load button to open the Load Slide Design dialog From here you can load previously prepared background pages All Draw and Impress templates can be used for this purpose Note however that using Impress templates will bring in only the background and not the other elements prepared in Impress Categories Templates My Templates Acryl Business Correspondence Aquarell Finances Black and Blue Smoke MediaWiki Black and White Miscellaneous Blue and Grey Other Business Documents Blue and Red Gradient Personal Correspondence and Documents Blue Border Presentation Backgrounds Blue Crystals o e E S e E E a a n age Figure 190 Load Slide Design dialog There is no special option to store background pages as templates Instead you can load a document with the desired background page and store this document as a document template with File gt Template gt Save Color palette adding or changing single colors Draw like all OpenOffice org components uses color palettes for the representation of colors In addition you can customize the color palette to suit your own needs and wishes You can modify colors in a palette add other colors or create new color palettes Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks 153 Reach these options with Tools gt Options gt OpenOffice org gt Col
212. ver the inputs of the AND gates Y 7 0 and 7 5 cm and put two other lines E F on the remaining connections Y 5 0 and 8 0 cm as shown in Figure 226 Deactivate all snap functions except Snap to grid It is a good idea to zoom in so that you can place the lead connections exactly over the intersection points Drag the connections singly from the Gallery to where you want to position them You will need to adjust their position with the mouse The easiest way is to move the connection diagonally to the desired location see Figure 227 The guiding lines are no longer needed and can be hidden it is better to wait until you have finished the drawing before you delete them Your drawing should now start to look like Figure 226 Figure 226 Drawing a half adder Step 4 The individual blocks must now be joined up so that the gates function as a half adder system To do this you use connectors Open the Connector toolbar Use the standard connector la to join the OR to the two AND gates All the other leads run horizontally and you can use the direct connector a When all six lead connections have been positioned both signal wires should have a small black circle added to their connection points You can use the symbol for NOT from the Gallery as the basis for this femme Pee ae a Figure 227 Setting the connections Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques 179 If you have correctly positioned the sym
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214. y eye in the center and then position it and dimension the connections from the Position and Size dialog as described above You can copy the circle to the Clipboard and then paste it as many times as you need positioning it and adjusting the lead lengths as above A wiring diagram also needs a symbol to show a connection point Draw a filled circle for this Next add text to the symbols amp 1 etc Activate the icon on the Options Toolbar Double clicking a symbol will now put you in a special text input mode This integrates the text as an element in the object see also Chapter 2 of this guide You will find the OR symbol S in the list of special characters Insert gt Special Characters It is probably a good idea to create a group for each type of gate This will make it easier to use them in a diagram Your diagram should now resemble Figure 215 save it to disk If you want you can add a name to each of the gate symbols AND OR Use a separate layer to add this text so that you can switch it off when necessary You can place glue points at the end of each connection lead This will simplify the actual wiring up later when you add in the connectors Setting glue points This instruction assumes a basic knowledge of connectors and glue points For additional information refer to Chapters 2 8 and 9 of this guide If objects are included in a group it is not possible in Draw 3 3 or Note earlier to add glue
215. you can set fill and shadow properties Use the Line dialog to set a frame around the lettering For further adjustments use the Fontwork toolbar If this does not open automatically turn it on with View gt Toolbars gt Fontwork The symbol on the far left is already familiar It opens the Fontwork Gallery Use the small triangle on the symbol Y to open the tear off Fontwork Shape toolbar and choose a Shape for the frame of your caption Use the yellow handle to modify the form of the caption With the other icons you can further customize the text direction and spacings To change the font type of the caption use as for other text the dialog from the Format gt Character menu or the context menu To give the text a 3D appearance refer to the relevant section in Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects OpenOffice org WUU ayu YUL Oman tiiee org Aj Y Aa AV Fontwork Sha x a eeu bw Trada vw ey A ee oo Ge Oa aw JOS 192 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Guide Writer OLE object In some cases text frames are not flexible enough to meet your needs and offer too few possibilities for adjustment For example you may want to show a figure in Draw in exactly the form it was created in Writer The best solution might be to insert an OLE object This means that the object is linked or connected to the application that created it Draw makes available to other applications only one viewin
216. ze of a selected object on the page see the gray double lines highlighted in Figure 2 When no object is selected they show the location of the mouse pointer which helps to position drawing objects more accurately You can also use the rulers to manage object handles and guide lines making it easier to position objects The page margins in the drawing area are also represented on the rulers You can change the margins directly on the rulers by dragging them with the mouse Chapter 1 Introducing Draw 9 Figure 2 Rulers show the size of the selected object To modify the units of measurement of the rulers which you can define independently right click on the desired ruler as illustrated for the horizontal ruler in Figure 3 Millimeter Centimeter Meter Kilometer w Inch Foot Miles Point Pica Figure 3 Rulers in a drawing Status bar The Status bar is located at the bottom of the Draw window and includes several Draw specific fields as identified in Figures 4 and 5 Rectangle selected iE 1S6 4 63 4 95x2 50 Information Position Unsaved AN changes signature Figure 4 Left end of Draw status bar Slide 1 1 Layout Default O e 75 l I Io I Slide Page foom slider Zoom number style percent Figure 5 Right end of Draw status bar The Information field shows which action is being carried out or which object type is selected 10 OpenOffice org 3 3 Draw Gu

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