109. About Drawing with Draw
Without question, Draw is the most enjoyable of all the OpenOffice.org programs. Draw is fun to use, and it's the only one of the OpenOffice.org programs that both adults and children have fun using. Draw supports all kinds of shapes. Here is only a sample of the shapes available to you as a Draw artist:
Lines of all thicknesses, patterns, and lengths, including arrows and connectors
Curves, circles, and ovals (ellipses of all kinds)
Rectangles, squares, and polygons
3D blocks, 3D cones, 3D cylinders, 3D conclave holders, and 3D convex holders
Artistic text
Chapter 11, "Learning About Impress," for a quick background about Impress slides.) Each slide is basically its own graphic image; if you export your drawing to a graphic format such as JPEG, only the selected slide is saved to the file. If you export the drawing to a218 file, however, multiple web pages are createdone page for each slide, with an additional master page that contains links to the slide pages. In this manner, you can create an easy-to-navigate image gallery. If you export a drawing to a PDF file, each slide is saved to a new page in the file. (See
36 Save a Document as a PDF File for help with PDF.)
layers , you can create extra layers as needed. Choose
Insert, Layer , type a layer name, select layer properties (such as
Visible ), and click
OK . You change from one layer to another on a slide by clicking the layer's tab. Each slide has three layers by default:
Layout, Control , and Dimension Lines. You can use these layers for whatever you want, but the intention is that you keep your drawing objects on the
Layout layer, buttons that activate sounds, movie files, and other fun stuff on the
Controls layer, and
dimension lines on the
Dimension Lines layer.
KEY TERMS
Layers
Groups of items, such as your drawing's graphics and text, controls you place on a drawing, or
dimension lines for three-dimensional space control.
Dimension line
A special line you can draw that measures the length of the nearest object and displays that measurement onscreen.118 About Grouping Objects . If you create multiple layers, the way in which objects are stacked has nothing to do with which layer they are on; layers are only used to organize objects and to prevent certain objects from printing, displaying, or being changed.