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Draw Guide Chapter 11 Advanced Draw Techniques Copyright This document is Copyright © 2011–2015 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 within this guide belong to their legitimate owners. Contributors Martin Fox John Cleland Jean Hollis Weber John A Smith Peter Schofield Feedback Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to the Documentation Team’s mailing list: [email protected] Note: Everything you send to a mailing list, including your email address and any other personal information that is written in the message, is publicly archived and cannot be deleted. Acknowledgments This chapter is 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 chapter was revised for OpenOffice.org 2.0 by Linda Worthington, Daniel Carrera, Jean Hollis Weber, and Agnes Belzunce, and later translated into German by Wolfgang Uhlig. The German revisions were then translated into English and revised for OpenOffice.org 3.3 and LibreOffice 3.3 by Martin Fox. Other contributors included Peter Hillier-Brook, Hazel Russman, Gary Schnabl, and Claire Wood. Publication date and software version Published 20 January 2015. Based on LibreOffice 4.3. 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 or Linux Mac equivalent Effect Tools > Options LibreOffice > Preferences Access setup options menu selection Right-click Control+click or right-click Open context menu depending on computer system Ctrl (Control) ⌘ (Command) Used with other keys F5 Shift+⌘+F5 Open the Navigator F11 ⌘+T Open Styles and Formatting window Documentation for LibreOffice is available at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation Contents Copyright.............................................................................................................................. 2 Contributors................................................................................................................................. 2 Feedback..................................................................................................................................... 2 Acknowledgments........................................................................................................................ 2 Publication date and software version......................................................................................... 2 Note for Mac users...............................................................................................................2 Multi-page documents.........................................................................................................5 Using the page pane.................................................................................................................... 5 Master pages............................................................................................................................... 6 Master page view.................................................................................................................... 7 Creating master pages............................................................................................................ 7 Renaming master pages......................................................................................................... 7 Deleting master pages............................................................................................................ 7 Inserting fields......................................................................................................................... 8 Assigning master pages.......................................................................................................... 8 Templates..............................................................................................................................9 Templates from other sources.................................................................................................... 10 Creating templates..................................................................................................................... 10 Using templates......................................................................................................................... 11 Setting default template............................................................................................................. 11 Setting a custom template as default..................................................................................... 11 Resetting default template..................................................................................................... 12 Editing templates....................................................................................................................... 12 Editing................................................................................................................................... 12 Updating documents from a modified template..................................................................... 12 Organizing templates................................................................................................................. 13 Creating template folders...................................................................................................... 13 Deleting template folders.......................................................................................................13 Moving templates.................................................................................................................. 13 Deleting templates................................................................................................................ 13 Importing templates............................................................................................................... 14 Importing template collections using the Extension Manager................................................ 14 Exporting templates...............................................................................................................15 Multiple layers.................................................................................................................... 15 Default layers............................................................................................................................. 15 Inserting layers.......................................................................................................................... 16 Modifying layers......................................................................................................................... 16 Working with layers.................................................................................................................... 17 Selecting a layer.................................................................................................................... 17 Hiding layers......................................................................................................................... 17 Showing hidden layers.......................................................................................................... 17 Locking layers....................................................................................................................... 17 Unlocking layers.................................................................................................................... 17 Renaming layers................................................................................................................... 17 Deleting layers...................................................................................................................... 17 Advanced Draw Techniques 3 Dimensioning..................................................................................................................... 18 Configuring dimensioning.......................................................................................................... 18 Drawing object styles............................................................................................................ 18 Context menu........................................................................................................................ 19 Dimensioning dialog.............................................................................................................. 19 Dimensioning objects................................................................................................................. 20 Drawing to scale.................................................................................................................21 Gallery images....................................................................................................................22 Using the Gallery....................................................................................................................... 22 Creating