Getting Started Guide Chapter 7 Getting Started with Draw Vector Drawing in LibreOffice Copyright This document is Copyright © 2017 by the LibreOffice Documentation Team. Contributors are 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/4.0/), version 4.0 or later. All trademarks within this guide belong to their legitimate owners. Contributors Peter Schofield Jean Hollis Weber Hazel Russman Ron Faile Jr. Olivier Hallot 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 adapted and updated from Chapter 7 of Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 3.3. The contributors to that chapter are: Agnes Belzunce Chris Bonde Daniel Carrera Regina Henschel Michel Pinquier Iain Roberts Gary Schnabl Joe Sellman Jim Taylor Alex Thurgood Jean Hollis Weber Linda Worthington Michele Zarri Publication date and software version Published 16 February 2017. Based on LibreOffice 5.2. 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 and/or right-click Open a context menu depending on computer setup Ctrl (Control) ⌘ (Command) Used with other keys F5 Shift+⌘ +F5 Open the Navigator F11 ⌘+T Open the Styles and Formatting window Documentation for LibreOffice is available at http://documentation.libreoffice.org/ Contents Copyright..............................................................................................................................2 Contributors.................................................................................................................................2 Feedback.....................................................................................................................................2 Acknowledgments........................................................................................................................2 Publication date and software version.........................................................................................2 Note for Mac users......................................................................................................................2 What is Draw?......................................................................................................................5 Draw main window...............................................................................................................5 Workspace...................................................................................................................................5 Pages pane.................................................................................................................................5 Layers bar....................................................................................................................................5 Sidebar........................................................................................................................................5 Rulers..........................................................................................................................................7 Status bar....................................................................................................................................7 Toolbars.......................................................................................................................................8 Working with layers.............................................................................................................9 Adding a layer..............................................................................................................................9 Choosing and defining colors..........................................................................................10 Drawing basic shapes.......................................................................................................11 Drawing a straight line................................................................................................................11 Drawing an arrow.......................................................................................................................12 Choosing line endings................................................................................................................12 Drawing a dimension line...........................................................................................................13 Drawing rectangles or squares..................................................................................................13 Drawing circles or ellipses.........................................................................................................14 Drawing curves or polygons.......................................................................................................14 Adding text.................................................................................................................................16 Glue points and connectors.............................................................................................17 Glue points................................................................................................................................17 Connectors................................................................................................................................17 Drawing geometric shapes...............................................................................................18 Basic shapes.............................................................................................................................19 Symbol shapes..........................................................................................................................19 Block arrows..............................................................................................................................19 Flowcharts.................................................................................................................................19 Callouts......................................................................................................................................19 Stars and banners.....................................................................................................................20 Selecting objects................................................................................................................20 Direct selection..........................................................................................................................20 Selection by framing..................................................................................................................20 Selecting hidden objects............................................................................................................20 Chapter 7 Getting Started with Draw | 3 Arranging objects.......................................................................................................................21 Moving and adjusting object size.....................................................................................21 Moving objects...........................................................................................................................22 Adjusting object size..................................................................................................................22 Rotating and slanting an object.......................................................................................22 Rotating an object......................................................................................................................22 Slanting an object......................................................................................................................23 Editing objects...................................................................................................................24 Line and Filling toolbar...............................................................................................................24 Text Formatting toolbar..............................................................................................................25 Sidebar Properties.....................................................................................................................25 Context menu............................................................................................................................25 Formatting lines and borders.....................................................................................................26 Arrows, arrowheads, and line endings.......................................................................................26