User manual OPEN OFFICE 3

[. . . ] Getting Started with OpenOffice. org 3 This PDF is designed to be read onscreen, two pages at a time. If you want to print a copy, your PDF viewer should have an option for printing two pages on one sheet of paper, but you may need to start with page 2 to get it to print facing pages correctly. (Print this cover page separately. ) Alternatively, you can download a free PDF of the printed edition or buy a low-cost printed copy from http://stores. lulu. com/opendocument. You can also download an editable (. odt) version of this book from http://oooauthors. org/en/authors/userguide3/published/ Copyright This document is Copyright © 2005­2008 by its contributors as listed in the section titled Authors. [. . . ] 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. For example, many people put the main Drawing toolbar on the left-hand side of the workspace, not at the bottom as shown here. 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). 204 Getting Started with OpenOffice. org 3 Figure 148. Initial Draw window Rulers You should see rulers (bars with numbers) on the upper and left-hand side of the workspace. These show the size of a selected object on the page (see the gray double lines, highlighted in Figure 149). When no object is selected, they show the location of the mouse pointer, which helps to accurately position drawing Figure 149: Rulers show the objects. You can also use the rulers to size of the selected object manage object handles and guide lines, making it easier to position objects. The page margins in the drawing area are also represented on the rulers. You can change the margins directly on the rulers by dragging them with the mouse. Chapter 7 Getting Started with Draw 205 To modify the units of measurement of the rulers, right-click on one of the rulers. Ruler units Status bar The Status bar is located at the bottom of the workspace. The middle part of the Status bar shows Draw-specific fields, as identified in Figure 151. For details on the contents and use of these fields, please refer to the Draw Guide. The sizes are given in the current measurement unit (not to be confused with the ruler units). This unit is defined in Tools > Options > OpenOffice. org Draw > General, where you can also change the scale of the page. Another way to change the scale is to double-click on the number shown in the status bar. Note Figure 151: Items on the Draw status bar Toolbars The various Draw toolbars can be displayed or hidden according to your needs. On the menu that appears, choose which toolbars you want to display. 206 Getting Started with OpenOffice. org 3 You can also select the buttons that you wish to appear on the corresponding toolbar. On the View > Toolbars menu, select Customize, click on the Toolbars tab, select the toolbar you want to change, and then select the desired buttons for that toolbar. [. . . ] · The right to modify any part of the source, or use portions of it in other programs. Another view of this philosophy comes from the Open Source Definiton: "The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing. " 418 Getting Started with OpenOffice. org 3 For more information on Free and Open Source software, visit these websites: Open Source Initiative (OSI): http://www. opensource. org Free Software Foundation (FSF): http://www. gnu. org What is OpenDocument? Starting with Version 2. 0, OpenOffice. org by default saves documents in Open Document Format (ODF). OpenOffice. org 3 has adopted version 1. 2 of the OpenDocument standard. [. . . ]