This also raised another issue with text and the method you suggested.įirstly, only the text that was grouped with an individual object before I followed your instructions and got mixed See the Draw Guide and the application Help for more information.I don't think this can be closed quite yet. This chapter introduces some of Draw’s features, but it does not attempt to cover all of the them. Although it was not designed to rival high-end graphics applications, Draw possesses more functions than the majority of drawing tools that are integrated into office productivity suites.Ī few examples of drawing functions might whet your appetite: layer management, magnetic grid point system, dimensions and measurement display, connectors for making organization charts, 3D functions enabling small three-dimensional drawings to be created (with texture and lighting effects), drawing and page style integration, and Bézier curves, to name a few. You can also work with drawings directly from within Writer and Impress, using a subset of the functions and tools from Draw.ĭraw’s functionality is very extensive and complete.

For example, if you create an image in Draw, reusing it in a Writer document is as simple as copying and pasting.

Vector graphics allow for easier storage and scaling of the image.ĭraw is perfectly integrated into the suite, and this makes exchanging graphics with all components of the suite very easy. Vector graphics store and display an image as vectors (two points and a line) rather than a collections of pixels (dots on the screen). It offers a series of powerful tools that enable you to quickly create all sorts of graphics. The PDFs are up to date for the second edition of the book, but not all of the wiki pages for this chapter have been updated yet.ĭraw is a vector graphics drawing program. A PDF of this chapter is available from this wiki page. This is Chapter 7 of Getting Started with 3.x, produced by the OOoAuthors group.

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