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What is Draw?

Draw is a vector graphics drawing program. It offers a series of

powerful tools that enable you to quickly create all sorts of graphics.

Vector graphics store and display an image as vectors (two points and

a line) rather than a collections of pixels (dots on the screen). Vector

graphics allow for easier storage and scaling of the image.

Draw is perfectly integrated into the OpenOffice.org suite, and this

makes exchanging graphics with all components of the suite very easy.

For example, if you create an image in Draw, reusing it in a Writer

document is as simple as copying and pasting. You can also work with

drawings directly from within Writer and Impress, using a subset of the

functions and tools from Draw.

Draw’s functionality is very extensive and complete. 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.

A 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.

This chapter introduces some of Draw’s features, but it does not

attempt to cover all of the them. See the

Draw Guide

and the

application Help for more information.

The Draw workspace

The main components of the Draw workspace are shown in Figure 148.

You can surround the drawing area with toolbars and information

areas. The number and position of the visible tools vary with the task

at hand or user preferences. Therefore, your setup may appear a little

different. For example, many people put the main Drawing toolbar on

the left-hand side of the workspace, not at the bottom as shown here.

You can split drawings in Draw over several pages. Multipage drawings

are used mainly for presentations. The

Pages

pane, on the left side of

the Draw window in Figure 148 gives an overview of the pages that

you create. If the Pages pane is not visible on your setup,you can

enable it from the View menu (View > Page Pane).

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