Openoffice Org 3 Draw Guide OpenOffice.org 3.3

2015-07-27

• Copyright
• Note for Mac users
• Chapter 1 Introducing Draw
  • Introduction
  • The Draw workplace
  • Rulers
  • Status bar
  • Toolbars
    • Standard toolbar
    • Drawing toolbar
    • Line and Filling toolbar
    • Text Formatting toolbar
    • Color bar
      • Choosing a color palette
    • Options toolbar
  • Drawing grid and guides
  • Floating and moving toolbars
    • Customizing toolbars
  • Quick printing
  • Controlling printing
    • Selecting general printing options
    • Printing multiple pages on a single sheet of paper
    • Selecting pages to print
    • Printing a brochure
    • Printing in black and white (on a color printer)
  • Exporting to PDF
    • Quick export to PDF
    • Controlling PDF content and quality
  • Exporting to other formats
  • Exporting Draw documents as web pages
  • E-mailing documents
• Chapter 2 Drawing Basic Shapes
  • Creating simple drawings
  • Custom shapes
  • Drawing basic shapes
    • Drawing a straight line
    • Drawing an arrow
    • Drawing lines and arrows
    • Drawing a rectangle or square
    • Drawing ellipses (ovals) and circles
    • Adding ellipse and arc tools to the Drawing toolbar
    • Drawing elliptical and circular arcs
    • Curves
  • Gluepoints and connectors (basics)
    • Gluepoints
    • Connectors
  • Drawing geometric shapes
    • Basic shapes
    • Symbol shapes
    • Block arrows
    • Flowcharts
    • Callouts
    • Stars and banners
  • Adding text to objects
    • Using dynamic text frames
    • Using text elements in Draw objects
• Chapter 3 Working with Objects and Object Points
  • Introduction
    • Selection modes
    • Changing the selection mode
    • Selecting objects
      • Direct selection
      • Selection by framing
    • Selecting hidden objects
      • Arranging objects
  • Moving and dynamically adjusting an object’s size
    • Dynamic movement of objects
    • Dynamic size modification of objects
    • Dynamic size modification of objects with the help of the status bar
    • Modifying an arc
  • Rotating and shearing an object using the mouse
    • Rotating
    • Changing inclination or perspective
  • Setting size and position exactly
    • Position and Size
    • Rotating objects
    • Slant and corner radius
  • Editing object points
  • Another way to change the form of basic shapes
  • How curves work
    • The Edit Points toolbar
    • The three kinds of tangent
    • Examples
• Chapter 4 Changing Object Attributes
  • Toolbars and menus
    • Line and Filling toolbar
    • Text Formatting toolbar
    • The context menu
  • Editing lines and borders
    • Common line properties
    • Drawing arrows
    • Line shadows
    • Customizing line and arrow styles
      • Customizing line styles
      • Customizing arrow styles
  • Editing the inside (fill) of an object
    • Common fill properties
      • Fill with a uniform color
      • Fill with a gradient
      • Fill with a line pattern
      • Fill with an image
    • Adding a shadow to an area
    • Advanced area fill options
      • Creating your own fill color
      • Creating your own gradient
      • Creating your own hatching (line pattern)
      • Creating your own bitmap fill
    • Customizing shadows
    • Adding transparency
  • Using styles
    • Creating a new style
    • Applying a style
    • Modifying a style
  • Special effects
    • Rotating an object
    • Flip an object
    • Mirror copies
    • Distorting an image
      • Distort an object
      • Set in circle (perspective)
      • Set to circle (slant)
    • Dynamic gradients
• Chapter 5 Combining Multiple Objects
  • Introduction: grouping and combining objects
  • Grouping objects
    • Grouping by common selection
    • Maintaining groups and undoing groups
    • Editing individual objects in a group
    • Nesting groups
  • Combining objects
    • Connecting lines
  • Merging, subtracting, or intersecting shapes
    • Merge
    • Subtract
    • Intersect
    • Practical example
  • Aids for positioning objects
    • Moving an object to the front or to the back
    • Aligning objects
    • Distributing the distance and space between objects
• Chapter 6 Editing Pictures (Raster Graphics)
  • Introduction
  • Importing raster and vector graphics
    • To link or to embed?
    • Scanning
    • Pasting from the clipboard
    • Dragging and dropping
    • Inserting from a file
  • Exporting graphics
    • Exporting the entire file
    • Exporting single objects
    • Exporting as a vector graphic
    • Exporting as a raster graphic
  • Modifying raster object properties
  • The picture (editing) toolbar
  • Cropping
  • The graphic filter toolbar
  • Changing colors using the eyedropper
    • Practical example: Changing wrong colors to transparency
    • Effect of the tolerance parameter
    • Color depth
      • Reducing color depth
  • Conversion
    • Convert to a contoured image
    • Convert to a polygon
      • Number of colors
      • Point reduction
      • Fill holes
    • Convert to bitmap
  • Print options with raster graphics
• Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects
  • Creating 3D objects
    • Creating 3D bodies
      • Variation 1: Extrusion
      • Variation 2: Body rotation
      • Variation 3: Using ready-made objects
    • 3D scenes
    • Producing 3D shapes
      • Variation 4: Extrusion of basic shapes
      • Variation 5: Fontwork
  • Editing 3D objects
    • Rotating 3D objects
      • Procedure for 3D bodies
      • Procedure for 3D shapes
    • 3D settings for 3D bodies
      • 3D Effects dialog – general buttons
      • 3D Effects - Geometry
      • 3D Effects - Shading
      • 3D Effects - Illumination
      • 3D Effects - Textures
      • 3D Effects - Material
    • 3D settings for 3D shapes
  • Combining objects in 3D scenes
    • Examples for your own experiments
• Chapter 8 Tips and Tricks
  • Positioning objects with zoom
    • Zoom adjustments using the status bar
    • The Zoom toolbar
  • Positioning objects with snap functions
    • Snap to grid
      • Showing the grid
      • Changing the color of the grid points
      • Configuring the grid
    • Snap to Snap objects (snap lines and snap points)
      • Inserting a snap line with the mouse
      • Inserting snap points and snap lines using coordinates
      • Editing snap points and snap lines
    • Snap to page edge
    • Snap to object border
    • Snap to object points
    • Help to position objects with guiding lines
  • Drawing to scale
  • Splitting drawings on multiple layers
    • An example drawing: house plan and furniture
    • Changing the layer of a drawing object
  • Creating a multi-page document
    • Using the Pages area
    • Using page backgrounds
      • Creating a page background
      • Assigning and managing page backgrounds
  • Color palette: adding or changing single colors
  • Changing colors using the Color dialog
  • Creating cool effects
    • Duplication
    • Cross-fading
      • Which object goes in front?
• Chapter 9 Organization Charts, Flow Diagrams, and More
  • Drawing an organization chart
  • Drawing a flow diagram
  • Glue points and connectors
    • The Connector toolbar
    • Drawing connectors—basics
    • Editing glue points
  • Adding text to connectors
    • Adjusting text to suit the connecting line
• Chapter 10 Advanced Draw Techniques
  • Drawing to scale
    • Working with the Position and Size dialog
    • Setting glue points
    • Copying individual pictures to the Gallery
    • Drawing a logic circuit diagram using the Gallery
  • Dimensioning a drawing
    • Configuring the dimensioning style
    • Dimensioning objects
    • Editing dimension lines
  • Working with text in Draw
    • Configuring text elements with styles
      • Text animation
      • Text
      • Anchoring text
      • Fitting text in frames
      • Distance from frame
    • Text frames and callouts
    • Pictures and text
    • Fontwork Gallery
    • Writer OLE object
      • Insert
      • Editing mode
      • Object mode
  • Guide to Bézier curves
    • Bézier curves—what are they?
    • Direct drawing of a Bézier curve
    • Point mode of the Bézier curve
    • Drawing a succession of Bézier curves
    • Transition points
      • Corner points
      • Smooth transition points
      • Symmetric transition points
      • Changing point types
    • Closing the curve
    • Transformation between straight line and Bézier curve
      • Transform a straight segment into a Bézier curve
      • Transform a Bézier curve into a straight segment
    • Transform complete curves, polylines and polygons
      • Transform a polygon or a polyline into a curve
      • Transform a curve into a polygon or a polyline
    • Freehand lines
    • Combining closed curves
    • Connecting curves
  • Adding comments to a drawing
  • Connecting and breaking lines
• Index