LibreOffice 43 Draw Guide - The Document Foundation
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 Where to get more help? This guide, the other LibreOffice user guides, the built-in Help system, and user support systems
LibreOffice 41 Draw Guide - The Document Foundation
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 Where to get more help? This guide, the other LibreOffice user guides, the built-in Help system, and user support systems
Chapter 6 Editing Pictures - LibreOffice
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, export, and conversion from one format to another Draw can read all the majority of graphic file formats
Adding and Formatting Text - LibreOffice
Using text with Draw objects Text can be added to most Draw objects The exceptions are control elements like buttons, list boxes, or 3D objects An object is not dynamic and does not behave like a text frame To keep text within the borders of the object, you have to use paragraphs, line breaks, smaller text size,
ESSENTIAL LibreOffice 1 INTRODUCTION TO WRITER
The document is given this default name by LibreOffice because you haven't yet given it a name of your own It is ALWAYS a good idea, however, to immediately—and thoughtfully –name a new document before you even enter any data It is a good idea to save a backup
Draw Guide - OpenOfficeorg
This document only describes the functions associated with Draw Some notions such as file management or the way the OpenOffice environment works are mentioned only briefly as these are covered elsewhere in the guide Draw Guide 1
Math Guide Version 6 - LibreOffice
library, or insert formulas directly into a document using LibreOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, or Draw Formulas as separate documents or files To create a formula as a separate document or file, use one of the following methods to open an empty formula document in LibreOffice Math (Figure 1) • On the main menu bar, go to File > New > Formula
Calc Guide 6 - LibreOffice
The LibreOffice community not only develops software, but provides free, volunteer-based support In addition to the Help menu links above, there are other online community support options available, see the table below
Chapter 1 LibreOffice API Concepts
from Open Document Format (ODF) files, LibreOffice can import, convert, and export a vast number of text, graphic, and other formats, including Microsoft Office documents, PDF, HTML, SWF (Flash), and SQL databases
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LibreOffice 4.3
Draw Guide
Drawing Vector Graphics in LibreOffice
Copyright
This document is Copyright © 2015 by the LibreOffice Documentation Team. Contributors are listed below. You may distribute 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/4.0/), version 4.0 or later. All trademarks in this guide belong to their legitimate owners.Contributors
Peter SchofieldMartin FoxJohn Cleland
Jean Hollis WeberJohn A. SmithMartin Saffron
Michele ZarriT. Elliott TurnerLow Song Chuan
Hazel Russman
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This book is adapted and updated from OpenOffice.org 3.3 Draw Guide. The contributors to that book are listed on page 15.Publication date and software version
Published 26 January 2015. Based on LibreOffice 4.3. Documentation for LibreOffice is available at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentationContents
Publication date and software version.....................................................................................2
Who is this book for?.................................................................................................................12
What is in this book?..................................................................................................................12
Where to get more help?...........................................................................................................12
Help system..........................................................................................................................12
Free online support...............................................................................................................12
Paid support and training......................................................................................................12
What you see may be different..................................................................................................13
Using LibreOffice on a Mac........................................................................................................14
What are all these things called?...............................................................................................14
Who wrote this book?................................................................................................................15
Frequently asked questions.......................................................................................................16
What's new in LibreOffice 4.3?..................................................................................................16
Chapter 1 Introducing Draw..............................................................................................17
Draw workplace.........................................................................................................................18
Page Pane............................................................................................................................19
Status bar..............................................................................................................................21
Floating and moving toolbars................................................................................................24
Choosing and defining colors.....................................................................................................26
Grid, snap, and help lines..........................................................................................................28
Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes.....................................................................................29
Custom shapes..........................................................................................................................30
Drawing basic shapes................................................................................................................30
Straight lines.........................................................................................................................31
Different types of lines and arrows........................................................................................34
Rectangles or squares..........................................................................................................35
Ellipses and circles................................................................................................................35
Adding arc and segment tools to the Drawing toolbar...........................................................35
Arcs or segments..................................................................................................................37
Curves or polygons...............................................................................................................38
Glue points and connectors.......................................................................................................39
Glue points............................................................................................................................39
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Drawing geometric shapes........................................................................................................41
Basic shapes.........................................................................................................................41
Symbol shapes......................................................................................................................41
Block arrows..........................................................................................................................41
Stars and banners.................................................................................................................42
Adding text to drawings and objects..........................................................................................42
Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points.......................................................43
Selecting objects........................................................................................................................44
Direct selection......................................................................................................................44
Selection by framing..............................................................................................................44
Selecting hidden objects.......................................................................................................44
Arranging objects..................................................................................................................45
Positioning and adjusting objects...............................................................................................45
Using zoom...........................................................................................................................45
Moving and adjusting object size...........................................................................................48
Rotating and slanting objects................................................................................................49
Setting exact size and position..............................................................................................50
Using grid and snap functions....................................................................................................54
Configuring grid and snap functions......................................................................................54
Snap to grid...........................................................................................................................56
Snap points and lines............................................................................................................57
Using guide lines.......................................................................................................................58
Changing form of regular shapes...............................................................................................59
Basic shapes.........................................................................................................................59
Symbol shapes......................................................................................................................59
Block arrows..........................................................................................................................59
Curves and polygons.................................................................................................................60
Bézier curves........................................................................................................................60
Converting to curve or polygon..............................................................................................60
Edit Points toolbar.................................................................................................................61
Converting curves or lines.....................................................................................................66
Splitting curves......................................................................................................................66
Closing curves.......................................................................................................................67
Rotating and distorting curves...............................................................................................67
Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes.............................................................................69
Formatting lines.........................................................................................................................70
Line and Filling toolbar..........................................................................................................70
Line dialog.............................................................................................................................71
Line properties......................................................................................................................72
Line shadows........................................................................................................................73
Line styles.............................................................................................................................74
Arrow styles...........................................................................................................................75
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Formatting fill area.....................................................................................................................76
Line and Filling toolbar..........................................................................................................77
Area dialog............................................................................................................................78
Creating new area fills...............................................................................................................80
Creating custom colors..........................................................................................................80
Creating custom gradients....................................................................................................82
Creating custom hatching patterns........................................................................................85
Working with bitmap fills........................................................................................................87
Creating and importing bitmaps.............................................................................................88
Formatting shadows..............................................................................................................90
Transparency formatting........................................................................................................90
Using styles...............................................................................................................................91
Linked drawing object styles.................................................................................................92
Creating drawing object styles...............................................................................................92
Modifying drawing object styles.............................................................................................94
Updating from a selection......................................................................................................94
Applying drawing object styles..............................................................................................94
Deleting drawing object styles...............................................................................................94
Applying special effects.............................................................................................................95
Rotating objects....................................................................................................................95
Flipping objects.....................................................................................................................97
Mirror copies.........................................................................................................................98
Distorting images..................................................................................................................99
Dynamic gradients...............................................................................................................101
Chapter 5 Combining Multiple Objects..........................................................................103
Grouping objects......................................................................................................................104
Temporary grouping............................................................................................................104
Editing individual objects.....................................................................................................105
Nesting groups....................................................................................................................105
Combining objects...................................................................................................................105
Splitting combined objects...................................................................................................106
Breaking combined objects.................................................................................................107
Connecting lines..................................................................................................................107
Merging, subtracting, or intersecting objects............................................................................107
Practical example................................................................................................................108
Duplication and cross fading....................................................................................................109
Cross fading.........................................................................................................................111
Positioning objects...................................................................................................................112
Arranging objects.................................................................................................................112
Aligning objects...................................................................................................................112
Distributing objects..............................................................................................................113
Chapter 6 Editing Pictures..............................................................................................115
Importing graphics....................................................................................................................116
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Copying and pasting............................................................................................................118
Dragging and dropping........................................................................................................119
File inserting........................................................................................................................119
Exporting graphics...................................................................................................................120
Exporting the entire file........................................................................................................120
Exporting objects.................................................................................................................121
Formatting raster objects.........................................................................................................121
Picture toolbar..........................................................................................................................121
Image size...........................................................................................................................124
Graphic filter toolbar.................................................................................................................124
Invert graphic filter...............................................................................................................124
Smooth graphic filter...........................................................................................................125
Sharpen graphic filter..........................................................................................................126
Remove noise graphic filter.................................................................................................126
Solarization graphic filter.....................................................................................................126
Aging graphic filter...............................................................................................................127
Posterize graphic filter.........................................................................................................128
Pop art graphic filter............................................................................................................128
Charcoal sketch graphic filter..............................................................................................128
Relief graphic filter...............................................................................................................129
Mosaic graphic filter............................................................................................................129
Replacing colors......................................................................................................................130
Replacing colors..................................................................................................................130
Replacing transparent areas...............................................................................................131
Tolerance parameter...........................................................................................................131
Contour conversion.............................................................................................................131
Polygon Conversion............................................................................................................132
Bitmap conversion...............................................................................................................133
Print options.............................................................................................................................135
Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects...............................................................................137
3D object types........................................................................................................................138
3D shapes...........................................................................................................................138
3D scenes...........................................................................................................................138
Drawing toolbar...................................................................................................................139
Text and Fontwork...............................................................................................................142
Ready-made 3D objects......................................................................................................143
Editing 3D objects....................................................................................................................143
3D-Settings toolbar..............................................................................................................145
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3D effects............................................................................................................................146
3D-Settings toolbar editing..................................................................................................155
Combining 3D objects..............................................................................................................155
Chapter 8 Connections, Flowcharts, and Organization Charts..................................157Connectors and glue points.....................................................................................................158
Glue points..........................................................................................................................161
Connector text.....................................................................................................................163
Organization charts..................................................................................................................166
Chapter 9 Adding and Formatting Text..........................................................................167
Using the text tool....................................................................................................................168
Using text boxes......................................................................................................................168
Creating a text box..............................................................................................................169
Moving, resizing and rotating text boxes.............................................................................169
Deleting text boxes..............................................................................................................170
Using text with Draw objects....................................................................................................172
Inserting text............................................................................................................................172
Pasting text.........................................................................................................................172
Inserting special characters.................................................................................................173
Inserting non-breaking spaces and hyphens.......................................................................174
Formatting text.........................................................................................................................174
Selecting text.......................................................................................................................175
Using styles.........................................................................................................................175
Character formatting............................................................................................................177
Paragraph formatting...........................................................................................................179
Creating bulleted and numbered lists.......................................................................................181
Creating lists.......................................................................................................................181
Editing and customizing a list..............................................................................................182
Using tables.............................................................................................................................184
Creating tables....................................................................................................................184
Modifying tables..................................................................................................................185
Deleting tables....................................................................................................................187
Using fields..............................................................................................................................188
Inserting fields.....................................................................................................................188
Customizing fields...............................................................................................................189
Using hyperlinks......................................................................................................................189
Inserting hyperlinks.............................................................................................................189
Editing text hyperlinks.........................................................................................................190
Working with hyperlink buttons............................................................................................191
Chapter 10 Printing, Exporting, and E-mailing.............................................................193
Quick printing......................................................................................................................194
Controlling printing..............................................................................................................194
Printing multiple pages on a single sheet............................................................................196
Selecting pages to print.......................................................................................................196
Brochure or booklet printing................................................................................................197
Printing in black and white or grayscale..............................................................................198
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Directly as PDF...................................................................................................................200
Controlling PDF content and quality....................................................................................200
Other formats......................................................................................................................200
Web pages..........................................................................................................................201
E-mailing documents...............................................................................................................201
OpenDocument format........................................................................................................201
PDF format..........................................................................................................................202
Chapter 11 Advanced Draw Techniques........................................................................203
Multi-page documents..............................................................................................................204
Using the page pane...........................................................................................................204
Master pages......................................................................................................................205
Templates from other sources.............................................................................................209
Creating templates..............................................................................................................209
Using templates..................................................................................................................210
Setting default template.......................................................................................................210
Editing templates.................................................................................................................211
Organizing templates..........................................................................................................212
Multiple layers..........................................................................................................................214
Default layers......................................................................................................................214
Inserting layers....................................................................................................................215
Modifying layers..................................................................................................................215
Working with layers.............................................................................................................216
Configuring dimensioning....................................................................................................217
Dimensioning objects..........................................................................................................219
Drawing to scale......................................................................................................................220
Gallery images.........................................................................................................................221
Using the Gallery.................................................................................................................221
Creating themes and adding images...................................................................................221
Deleting gallery themes and images...................................................................................223
Updating the Gallery............................................................................................................223
Colors and color palettes.........................................................................................................224
Using colors........................................................................................................................224
Selecting colors...................................................................................................................225
Color palettes......................................................................................................................225
Creating colors....................................................................................................................225
Deleting colors....................................................................................................................227
Bézier curves...........................................................................................................................227
Drawing Bézier curves........................................................................................................227
Edit Points tools..................................................................................................................229
Adding comments to a drawing................................................................................................230
Connecting and breaking lines.................................................................................................231
Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts....................................................................................233
Tips for Macintosh users.....................................................................................................234
Draw-specific function keys and keyboard shortcuts................................................................235
Function keys......................................................................................................................235
Shortcut keys for drawings..................................................................................................235
Page Pane navigation.........................................................................................................237
General function keys and keyboard shortcuts........................................................................237
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