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| Time | Narration |
| 00.01 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Introduction to LibreOffice Draw. |
| 00.06 | In this tutorial, we will learn about LibreOffice Draw and LibreOffice Draw Workspace. |
| 00.13 | And the context menu. |
| 00.15 | We will also learn how to: Create, save, close and open a Draw file Enable toolbars Set up the Draw page, |
| 00.25 | And insert basic shapes. |
| 00.28 | If you do not have LibreOffice Suite installed, Draw can be installed by using Synaptic Package Manager. |
| 00.35 | For more information on Synaptic Package Manager, please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials on this website. |
| 00.43 | And download LibreOffice Suite by following the instructions on this website. |
| 00.48 | Detailed instruction are available in the first tutorial of Libre office suit. |
| 00.54 | Remember, when installing, use the 'Complete' option to install 'Draw '. |
| 00.59 | LibreOffice Draw is a vector-based graphics software. |
| 01.03 | It allows you to create a wide range of vector graphics. |
| 01.08 | There are two major types of graphics – vector-based graphics and bitmaps. |
| 01.13 | Vector graphics are created and edited using LibreOffice Draw. |
| 01.18 | The other is bitmap or the raster image. |
| 01.21 | Popular bitmap formats are BMP, JPG, JPEG and PNG. |
| 01.30 | Let us understand the difference between the two types, by comparing the image formats. |
| 01.35 | The picture on the left is a vector graphic. |
| 01.38 | The one on the right is a bitmap. |
| 01.41 | Notice what happens when the pictures are enlarged. |
| 01.45 | The vector graphic is clear; the bitmap image becomes blurred. |
| 01.51 | Vector-based graphics software stores images using lines and curves as mathematical formulae. |
| 01.58 | Therefore, when the images are resized, the picture quality is unaffected. |
| 02.04 | A bitmap uses pixels or a series of very small dots of colors in a grid or a square. |
| 02.11 | Can you see the small squares as we enlarge the picture? |
| 02.15 | These are the grids. |
| 02.17 | The small dots make up the color in each grid. |
| 02.20 | You may have noticed one other difference - bitmaps are rectangular in shape. |
| 02.26 | Vector graphics, however, can be in any shape. |
| 02.30 | Now that we know about vector graphics, let us learn how to create them using Draw. |
| 02.36 | Here we are using Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4. |
| 02.46 | To open a new Draw file, click on the Applications option at the top left corner of the screen. |
| 02.54 | And then click on Office and then on LibreOffice. |
| 02.59 | A dialog box opens up with various LibreOffice components. |
| 03.03 | Click on Drawing . |
| 03.05 | This will open an empty Draw file. |
| 03.09 | Let’s name our Draw file and save it. |
| 03.12 | Click on File in the Main menu and choose the “Save as” option. |
| 03.18 | The “Save as” dialog box is displayed. |
| 03.21 | Let us type the name “WaterCycle” in the field File Name. |
| 03.26 | Its a good practice to assign a name that is relevant to the drawing. |
| 03.31 | The default file type for Draw files is the dot odg format (.odg). |
| 03.37 | Using the Browse folders field, let us save this file on the Desktop. |
| 03.42 | Click on Save. |
| 03.44 | The file is saved as “WaterCycle”. |
| 03.47 | The Draw file with the file name and the extension is displayed in the Title bar. |
| 03.53 | We will learn how to create a picture of the water cycle as shown in this slide. |
| 03.59 | We shall complete this picture in stages. |
| 04.02 | Each basic level tutorial will demonstrate how you can create different elements of this picture. |
| 04.09 | At the end of the basic level of Draw tutorials, you will also be able to create a similar diagram by yourself. |
| 04.17 | First let us familiarize ourselves with the Draw workspace or the Draw window. |
| 04.23 | The Main menu lists all the options that we can use in Draw.
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| 04.27 | The Pages panel on the left displays all the pages in the Draw file. |
| 04.32 | The space where we create graphics is called a Page. |
| 04.37 | There are three layers in each page. |
| 04.39 | They are the Layout, Controls and Dimensions Lines. |
| 04.44 | The Layout layer is displayed by default. |
| 04.47 | This is where we create most of our graphics. |
| 04.51 | We will work only with the Layout Layer. |
| 04.54 | Let us now explore the various toolbars available in LibreOffice Draw. |
| 04.59 | To view the toolbars available in Draw, go to the Main menu and click on View and then on Toolbars.
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| 05.07 | You will see a list of all the available tools. |
| 05.11 | There is a check mark to the left of certain toolbars. |
| 05.15 | This means the toolbar is enabled and is visible in the Draw window. |
| 05.20 | The option “Standard” has a check. |
| 05.23 | You can see the Standard toolbar on the window. |
| 05.27 | Let us now uncheck the “Standard” toolbar by clicking on it. |
| 05.32 | You see the Standard toolbar is no longer visible. |
| 05.36 | Let’s make it visible again. |
| 05.39 | Similarly, you can enable and disable the other toolbars, too. |
| 05.44 | Before we draw the basic shapes for the water cycle diagram, let us set the page to Landscape view. |
| 05.51 | To do this, right-click on the page and choose the Page option. |
| 05.56 | Various sub-options are displayed. |
| 05.59 | Click Page Setup option. |
| 06.02 | The Page Setup dialog box is displayed. |
| 06.06 | Under Page Format, we can see the Format field. |
| 06.10 | Here we will choose A4 as this is the most common paper size used for printing. |
| 06.17 | When you select the format, the Width and Height fields are automatically filled with the default values. |
| 06.25 | Under the Orientation option, let us select Landscape. |
| 06.29 | To the right of the Paper format fields, you will see a tiny preview of the Draw page. |
| 06.36 | Click on OK. |
| 06.38 | Let us begin by drawing the sun. |
| 06.41 | On the drawing toolbar, click on the small black triangle next to “Basic Shapes”. |
| 06.47 | Click on Circle. |
| 06.49 | Now bring the cursor to the page >> Hold the left mouse button and Drag. |
| 06.56 | A circle is drawn on the page. |
| 06.59 | Now, let us draw a cloud next to the sun. |
| 07.03 | To do this, go to the drawing toolbar and select the “Symbol Shapes”. |
| 07.08 | Click on the small black triangle next to” Symbol Shapes” and select the “Cloud”. |
| 07.14 | On the draw page, place the cursor next to the sun. |
| 07.18 | Hold the left mouse button and drag. |
| 07.21 | You have drawn a cloud! |
| 07.23 | Next let us draw a mountain. |
| 07.25 | We shall select “Basic shapes” again and click on “Isosceles triangle”. |
| 07.30 | We shall insert a triangle in the Draw page, as we did before. |
| 07.35 | Now, we have inserted three shapes. |
| 07.38 | Remember to save your file every time you make a change. |
| 07.42 | Press the CTRL+S keys together to do this. |
| 07.48 | You can also set a time interval to save the changes automatically. |
| 07.53 | To do this: Go to the Main menu and select “Tools”. |
| 07.57 | Under “Tools”, click on “Options”. |
| 08.00 | The “Options” dialog box appears. |
| 08.03 | Click on the plus sign next to “Load/Save”next on Click “General” >> From the check boxes on the right >> |
| 08.11 | Check the box” Save Auto recovery information every “and type “2”. |
| 08.17 | This means that the file will automatically be saved once every two minutes. |
| 08.22 | Click OK. |
| 08.24 | Let us now close this file by clicking on” File” >> “Close”. |
| 08.29 | To open an existing Draw file, click on the “File” menu in the menu bar at the top and then click on the “Open” option. |
| 08.38 | A dialog box appears on the screen. |
| 08.41 | Here find the folder where you saved your document. |
| 08.46 | Select the file you want to open and click “Open”. |
| 08.51 | Here is an assignment for you. |
| 08.53 | Create a new draw file and save it as “MyWaterCycle”. |
| 08.57 | Set the page orientation to Portrait. |
| 09.00 | Insert a cloud, a star and a circle. |
| 09.04 | Now change the page orientation to Landscape. |
| 09.07 | See how the placements of the figures change. |
| 09.11 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial on Introduction to LibreOffice Draw. |
| 09.16 | In this tutorial, we learnt about |
| 09.19 | LbreOffice Draw, |
| 09.21 | The LibreOffice Draw Workspace and |
| 09.23 | And the context menu. |
| 09.25 | We also learnt to: |
| 09.27 | Create, save, close and open a Draw file |
| 09.31 | Enable toolbars |
| 09.33 | Set up the Draw page and |
| 09.35 | Insert basic shapes |
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