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Latest revision as of 00:18, 4 October 2018
| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Working with Objects in LibreOffice Draw. |
| 00:06 | In this tutorial, we will learn how to: |
| 00:08 | Position objects using Grids and Guide lines, |
| 00:12 | Use snap functions, |
| 00:14 | Customize lines and arrowheads. |
| 00:18 | You will also learn how to: Duplicate objects, |
| 00:21 | Re-size objects exactly, |
| 00:24 | Distribute objects, Combine, merge, subtract and intersect objects. |
| 00:30 | We are using:Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4. |
| 00:40 | What are Grids? |
| 00:42 | Grids aid to position objects, |
| 00:45 | accurately on the Draw page. |
| 00:48 | Let us open the file RouteMap that was saved on the Desktop. |
| 00:53 | In the previous tutorials, we had briefly used grids. |
| 00:57 | Now, let us learn about grids in detail. |
| 01:01 | From the Main menu, select View and click on Grid. |
| 01:05 | Then click on Display Grid. |
| 01:08 | The Draw page is filled with a number of horizontal and vertical dotted lines. These form the grid. |
| 01:17 | These grids are for display purposes only. They will not be printed. |
| 01:22 | We can customize the size of the grids, that is, make them smaller or bigger as required. |
| 01:30 | From the Main menu, select Tools and click Options. |
| 01:35 | You will see the Options dialog-box. |
| 01:38 | Click LibreOffice Draw and select Grid. |
| 01:42 | Under Resolution, enter the following values: |
| 01:46 | Horizontal – 7 cm |
| 01:49 | Vertical – 5 cm. |
| 01:53 | Subdivision decides the number of spaces in a grid. |
| 01:57 | Let us enter Subdivision values. |
| 02:00 | Horizontal – 3 |
| 02:02 | Vertical – 4. |
| 02:05 | Let us leave the Synchronize axes option unchecked. |
| 02:09 | Click OK. |
| 02:11 | Look at the Draw page now. Look at the size of each box in the grid. |
| 02:17 | Let us count the spaces that we set in the Subdivision. |
| 02:22 | Horizontally there are 1, 2, 3 spaces and vertically there are 1, 2, 3, 4 spaces. |
| 02:33 | Let us learn about Guides. |
| 02:36 | What are Guides? |
| 02:38 | Guides are helper lines or extensions of the edges of the objects |
| 02:43 | that are displayed when it is moved. |
| 02:47 | Let us enable the guidelines. |
| 02:50 | Go to the Main menu, select View and select the option Guides. |
| 02:55 | Now, click the option Display Guides. |
| 02:59 | From the Main menu, click Tools and Options. |
| 03:03 | The Options dialog-box appears. |
| 03:06 | From the left panel, click on the small black triangle next to LibreOffice Draw. Click View. |
| 03:15 | From the right panel, select Guides when moving. This way, you can see the guides when moving objects. |
| 03:23 | Click OK. |
| 03:27 | Now, let us move the park a little to the right. |
| 03:29 | When the park is moved, the extension lines of the edges of the object become visible. These are the Guidelines. |
| 03:39 | What are Snap Lines? |
| 03:41 | Snap Lines help us position two or more objects within an area that is defined. |
| 03:48 | Snap lines and Snap points are created by the user. |
| 03:53 | Snap lines run vertically and horizontally and appear as dashed lines. |
| 03:59 | You must enable the Snap Lines option before you create snap lines. |
| 04:05 | Go to the Draw page. Right-click for the context menu and select Snap Lines. |
| 04:12 | Now, check all the three options: |
| 04:16 | Snap Lines Visible, |
| 04:18 | Snap to Snap Lines, |
| 04:20 | Snap Lines to Front. |
| 04:22 | Snap lines that we create, will now be visible. |
| 04:26 | Let’s define an area, using Snap Lines, within which the objects in the map must fall (as shown in the slide). |
| 04:34 | Move the mouse cursor over the vertical ruler. |
| 04:38 | Press the left-mouse-button. |
| 04:41 | You will notice that the cursor is now shaped like a two-sided arrow. |
| 04:46 | Drag the mouse towards the Draw page. |
| 04:50 | You will see a dotted line. |
| 04:53 | Do not release the mouse-button. |
| 04:55 | Holding the left-mouse-button, drag the dotted line to the page. |
| 05:01 | Now, release the mouse-button. |
| 05:04 | Can you see the line? |
| 05:06 | This is the Snap Line.To create the bottom most limit, simply drag the line to the bottom of the page. |
| 05:13 | Let’s create three more Snap Lines to define the area within which the map is enclosed. |
| 05:24 | We have created horizontal and vertical Snap Lines. |
| 05:29 | Now you can position the objects along these Snap Lines. |
| 05:34 | You can, of course, create as many Snap Lines as you want. |
| 05:40 | The horizontal and vertical Snap Lines function like the 'X' and 'Y' axes on a graph. |
| 05:48 | Within these two axes, you can position objects exactly. |
| 05:54 | You can use the Snap function along with the grid lines to position objects accurately. |
| 05:59 | You can also: Snap to Grid- position an object exactly on grid points |
| 06:06 | Snap to Snap lines - position an object exactly on a snap line |
| 06:11 | Snap to Page margin - position an object exactly on the page margin. |
| 06:18 | Pause this tutorial and do this assignment. |
| 06:21 | Explore all the Grid options. |
| 06:24 | Check what happens to objects when you snap to Grid, snap lines and page margins. |
| 06:31 | Now let’s add one more lake, in the exact shape of this lake, next to the School Campus. |
| 06:38 | To do this, let’s use the Duplicate option. |
| 06:43 | Let’s select the Lake. |
| 06:45 | Go to the Main menu', select Edit and click on Duplicate. |
| 06:51 | The Duplicate dialog-box appears. |
| 06:54 | In Number of copies, enter the value 1 and click OK. |
| 06:59 | The Lake is duplicated. |
| 07:03 | Let’s drag the lake and place it near the school. |
| 07:06 | Objects can also be re-sized exactly to any measurement that is required. |
| 07:11 | Let’s use the exact measurements and change the shape of the House as shown in this slide. |
| 07:18 | Let’s give it the same height and width and slant its corners and rotate it. |
| 07:24 | First, select Home, right-click for the context menu and select Position and Size. |
| 07:31 | The Position and Size dialog-box appears. |
| 07:35 | Click the Position and Size tab. |
| 07:38 | Under Size, enter the value 3 in both the Width and Height fields. |
| 07:43 | Then click the Rotation tab. |
| 07:46 | In the Angle field, enter the value 10. |
| 07:50 | Finally, select the Slant and Corner Radius tab. |
| 07:55 | In the Slant Angle field, enter 5 degrees. |
| 07:59 | Click OK. |
| 08:01 | We have re-designed the house! |
| 08:05 | Pause this tutorial and do this assignment. |
| 08:08 | # Draw various shapes using the Drawing tool bar. |
| 08:11 | # Check if you can apply Corner radius to all shapes. |
| 08:16 | Now, let’s space the right edges of some objects evenly. |
| 08:21 | We will use the Distribution option to achieve this. |
| 08:26 | We must select at least three objects to use the Distribution option. |
| 08:32 | First, select the Residential Complex, the Parking Lot and the Commercial Complex. |
| 08:39 | Let’s group them by dragging the Select arrow to cover all the objects. |
| 08:45 | Now, right-click and select Distribution. |
| 08:50 | Under Horizontal, select Right. Click OK. |
| 08:56 | The right edges of the objects will be distributed evenly. |
| 09:01 | The Distribution option does not distribute the objects horizontally or vertically. |
| 09:07 | The Horizontal Distribution option distributes- |
| 09:10 | The right and left edges |
| 09:12 | The horizontal centers and |
| 09:14 | The spacing of the objects. |
| 09:17 | The Vertical option distributes- |
| 09:21 | The top and bottom edges,
The vertical centers and The spacing of the objects. |
| 09:26 | Now, let’s create our own line style for this map. |
| 09:32 | From the Main menu, select Format and click Line. |
| 09:35 | The Line dialog-box appears. |
| 09:38 | Click on the Line Styles tab. |
| 09:41 | In Line Styles, select the option Three dashes and three dots. |
| 09:47 | Leave the Type field as it is. |
| 09:50 | In Number, let’s enter 10 and 5; Length as 8%. |
| 09:57 | Click Add. Enter the name "My Line Style". Click OK. |
| 10:06 | Again click OK. |
| 10:08 | Let’s select this arrow. Right-click and select Line. The Line dialog-box appears. |
| 10:13 | Click the Line tab. |
| 10:16 | Click on the Style drop-down box. |
| 10:19 | It now displays the new style that was created. |
| 10:22 | Select it and click OK. |
| 10:26 | We have created a new line style! |
| 10:29 | Let’s draw a small stadium to the left of the School Campus. |
| 10:34 | From the Drawing toolbar, click Basic Shapes and select a Circle. |
| 10:40 | Let’s enter it in the Draw page. |
| 10:44 | The outline of the circle is of the style My Line Style. |
| 10:49 | Let’s type “Stadium” inside it. |
| 10:53 | Now, let’s learn to combine, merge, subtract and intersect objects. |
| 10:59 | What is the difference between Grouping and combining objects? |
| 11:03 | When objects are grouped, a number of objects are just put together. |
| 11:09 | When objects are combined, new object is created. |
| 11:13 | We will use three objects to demonstrate these options. |
| 11:18 | First, let us add a new page to the Draw file. |
| 11:23 | Let’s draw a circle from the Drawing toolbar- click Basic Shapes and select Circle. |
| 11:32 | Move the mouse in the Draw page and drag it down. |
| 11:35 | Let’s draw a second object Diamond. |
| 11:38 | From the Drawing toolbar, click Basic Shapes and select Diamond. |
| 11:43 | Move the cursor to the Draw page, drag it down. And from the menu bar, select Area Style / Filling drop down button and select color Red 3. |
| 11:55 | Draw a third object, a Rectangle, and color the object as Green 6. |
| 12:02 | Select the three objects by holding down the Shift key and clicking on each object. |
| 12:11 | Right-click for the Context menu and click Combine. |
| 12:14 | A new object is created! |
| 12:18 | Notice that the new object takes the color of the object that is last and at the back. |
| 12:24 | Let us undo this action by pressing the CTRL+Z keys together. |
| 12:29 | Select the figures again and right-click for the context menu. |
| 12:35 | Select Shapes and click Merge. |
| 12:38 | Another new shape is created! |
| 12:41 | Remember the more you experiment with these functions, the more you will learn. |
| 12:48 | This brings us to the end of the tutorial. |
| 12:51 | In this tutorial, you have learnt how to use Grids, Guides and snap lines to align objects accurately. |
| 12:59 | You have also learnt to Duplicate, Resize objects and distribute objects. |
| 13:06 | We also created new line styles and learnt how to form new objects using- |
| 13:12 | Combine, Merge, Subtract, Intersect. |
| 13:17 | Watch the video available at the following link. |
| 13:20 | It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. |
| 13:23 | If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it. |
| 13:28 | The Spoken Tutorial Project team:Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials.Gives certificates for those who pass an online test. |
| 13:37 | For more details, please write to:
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| 13:43 | Spoken Tutorial project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project. |
| 13:48 | It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. |
| 13:55 | More information on this mission is available at:
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| 14:10 | Thanks for joining. |
