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LibreOffice 4.3 Draw Guide

Drawing Vector Graphics in LibreOffice

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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 (), version 3 or later, or the Creative Commons Attribution License (), version 4.0 or later. All trademarks in this guide belong to their legitimate owners.

Contributors

Peter Schofield Jean Hollis Weber Michele Zarri Hazel Russman

Martin Fox John A. Smith T. Elliott Turner

John Cleland Martin Saffron Low Song Chuan

Feedback

Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to: documentation@global.

Acknowledgments

This book is adapted and updated from 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

Contents

Copyright..................................................................................................................................... 2 Contributors............................................................................................................................. 2 Feedback................................................................................................................................ 2 Acknowledgments................................................................................................................... 2 Publication date and software version..................................................................................... 2

Preface.................................................................................................................................11

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 Illustrations............................................................................................................................ 13 Icons..................................................................................................................................... 13

Using LibreOffice on a Mac........................................................................................................ 14

What are all these things called?............................................................................................... 14

Who wrote this book?................................................................................................................ 15

Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................... 15

Frequently asked questions....................................................................................................... 16

What's new in LibreOffice 4.3?.................................................................................................. 16

Chapter 1 Introducing Draw..............................................................................................17

Introduction................................................................................................................................ 18

Draw workplace......................................................................................................................... 18 Workspace............................................................................................................................ 18 Page Pane............................................................................................................................ 19 Sidebar.................................................................................................................................. 19 Rulers.................................................................................................................................... 20 Status bar.............................................................................................................................. 21 Toolbars................................................................................................................................ 22 Floating and moving toolbars................................................................................................ 24

Choosing and defining colors..................................................................................................... 26

Grid, snap, and help lines.......................................................................................................... 28

Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes.....................................................................................29

Introduction................................................................................................................................ 30

Custom shapes.......................................................................................................................... 30

Drawing basic shapes................................................................................................................ 30 Straight lines......................................................................................................................... 31 Arrows................................................................................................................................... 34 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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Connectors............................................................................................................................ 40

Drawing geometric shapes........................................................................................................ 41 Basic shapes......................................................................................................................... 41 Symbol shapes...................................................................................................................... 41 Block arrows.......................................................................................................................... 41 Flowcharts............................................................................................................................. 42 Callouts................................................................................................................................. 42 Stars and banners................................................................................................................. 42

Adding text to drawings and objects.......................................................................................... 42

Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points.......................................................43

Introduction................................................................................................................................ 44

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 Callouts................................................................................................................................. 59 Stars...................................................................................................................................... 60

Curves and polygons................................................................................................................. 60 B?zier curves........................................................................................................................ 60 Converting to curve or polygon..............................................................................................60 Edit Points toolbar................................................................................................................. 61 Tangents............................................................................................................................... 61 Points.................................................................................................................................... 63 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 Sidebar.................................................................................................................................. 71 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 Sidebar.................................................................................................................................. 78 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 Grouping............................................................................................................................. 104 Ungrouping.......................................................................................................................... 104 Editing individual objects..................................................................................................... 105 Nesting groups.................................................................................................................... 105

Combining objects................................................................................................................... 105 Combining........................................................................................................................... 106 Splitting combined objects................................................................................................... 106 Breaking combined objects................................................................................................. 107 Connecting lines.................................................................................................................. 107

Merging, subtracting, or intersecting objects............................................................................ 107 Merge.................................................................................................................................. 108 Subtract............................................................................................................................... 108 Intersect.............................................................................................................................. 108 Practical example................................................................................................................ 108

Duplication and cross fading.................................................................................................... 109 Duplication.......................................................................................................................... 109 Cross fading......................................................................................................................... 111

Positioning objects................................................................................................................... 112 Arranging objects................................................................................................................. 112 Aligning objects................................................................................................................... 112 Distributing objects.............................................................................................................. 113

Chapter 6 Editing Pictures.............................................................................................. 115

Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 116

Importing graphics.................................................................................................................... 116

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