LibreOffice-Suite-Draw/C2/Create-simple-drawings/English-timed
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| Time | Narration |
| 00.02 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on How to Create Simple Drawings in LibreOffice Draw. |
| 00.08 | In this tutorial you will learn how to create simple drawings using: |
| 00.13 | Basic shapes such as lines, arrows and rectangles |
| 00.17 | Basic geometric shapes, symbols, stars and banners. |
| 00.22 | You will also learn how to:Select, move and delete an object. |
| 00.27 | Use the ruler to set margins and the align toolbar to position objects. |
| 00.33 | Here we are using Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4. |
| 00.42 | Let us define the word Object. |
| 00.44 | The term “Object” denotes shapes or group of shapes used in Draw such as lines, squares, arrows, flowcharts and so on. |
| 00.55 | All the shapes shown in this slide are referred to as objects. |
| 00.59 | Let us open the file “WaterCycle” that was saved on the Desktop. |
| 01.04 | We will first learn how to select an object. |
| 01.08 | Let’s say, we want to select the cloud. So, we will simply click on it. |
| 01.13 | On doing so, eight handles become visible. |
| 01.16 | Handles Handles are the small blue or green squares that appear on the sides of the selected object. |
| 01.22 | You will learn more about handles and their use in the later tutorials. |
| 01.27 | Let’s add some more objects to our drawing. |
| 01.30 | Let us add a rectangle to represent the ground. |
| 01.34 | In the Drawing toolbar, click on “Basic shapes” and then click on “Rectangle”. |
| 01.39 | Now move the cursor to the page. You will see plus sign with a capital I. |
| 01.45 | Hold the left mouse button and drag to draw a rectangle. |
| 01.50 | Now release the mouse button. |
| 01.52 | Next, let us draw some arrows to show the movement of water vapour from the ground to the cloud. |
| 02.00 | To draw a line, click on “Line” in the Drawing toolbar. |
| 02.04 | Move the cursor to the page. |
| 02.06 | You will see a plus sign with a slanting dash. |
| 02.10 | Hold the left button of the mouse and drag from top to bottom. |
| 02.15 | You have drawn a straight line! |
| 02.17 | A line has two handles. |
| 02.20 | Now, let us add an arrowhead to the line. |
| 02.23 | We shall select the line now. |
| 02.25 | Right-click to view the context menu and click on “Line”. |
| 02.30 | You will see the “Line” dialog box. Now, click on the “Arrow styles” tab and then click on the “Arrow style” drop-down. |
| 02.39 | This displays the available “Arrow styles”. |
| 02.43 | Select the first option named “Arrow”. |
| 02.46 | Click on OK. |
| 02.48 | This will add the selected style of arrowheads to both ends of the line. |
| 02.52 | But we need an arrowhead on only one end of the line. |
| 02.57 | So first we will undo this change by pressing CTRL+Z. |
| 03.02 | Right-click again to view the context menu. |
| 03.05 | Now, click on the “Line” tab. |
| 03.09 | Here, under “Arrow Styles” you will see the field named “Style”. |
| 03.14 | You see two drop-down boxes - one for each end of the line. |
| 03.19 | Click on the left drop-down box and select “Arrow”. |
| 03.23 | In the right drop-down box, select “none”. |
| 03.26 | Click on OK. |
| 03.28 | Note that an arrowhead has been added to the top end of the line. |
| 03.33 | We can also draw arrows using the “Lines and Arrows” option. |
| 03.38 | Let us draw two more arrows next to this arrow. |
| 03.42 | From the Drawing toolbar >> click on Lines and Arrows” and select Line Starts with Arrow. |
| 03.48 | Move the cursor to the Draw page. |
| 03.51 | Hold the left button of the mouse and drag from up to down. |
| 03.56 | It is easier to draw an arrow this way, is it not? |
| 04.00 | Let us add one more arrow in the same manner. |
| 04.06 | Pause this tutorial and do this assignment. |
| 04.09 | In your file “MyWaterCycle”, draw a line. |
| 04.13 | Select the line and open the Line dialog box. |
| 04.16 | Under the Line Properties field, change style, color, width and transparency for lines. |
| 04.24 | Under the Arrow Styles field, change the arrow styles. |
| 04.28 | Next, let us draw a star. |
| 04.31 | Go to the Drawing toolbar and click on the small black triangle next to “Stars”. |
| 04.37 | Let us select “5-Point Star”. |
| 04.41 | Now place the cursor next to the cloud. |
| 04.44 | Hold the left button of the mouse and drag to the left |
| 04.48 | You have drawn a star! |
| 04.50 | Now let us learn how to move and delete objects. |
| 04.54 | To move an object, just select it and drag it to the desired location. |
| 04.59 | Now release the mouse button. |
| 05.02 | You can also use the up, down and side arrow keys on the keyboard to move an object. |
| 05.08 | Moving objects is simple, isn't it? |
| 05.11 | To delete an object, just select it and then press the Delete key on the keyboard. |
| 05.17 | The object is deleted. Isn't it simple? |
| 05.20 | Now Let us learn about the basic aids - the Ruler and the Align toolbar. |
| 05.26 | The Ruler is used to set up page margins, and modify the units of measurement. |
| 05.31 | The Align toolbar is used to position objects. |
| 05.35 | The Ruler is displayed on the top and on the left side of the Draw workspace. |
| 05.40 | To set the measurement units, right-click the Ruler on the top. |
| 05.45 | You will see a list of measurement units. |
| 05.48 | Click on “Centimeter”. |
| 05.50 | The measurement unit for the top ruler is now set to centimeter
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| 05.55 | Similarly, let us set the measurement for the ruler on the left. |
| 06.00 | To make sure that the objects are drawn to scale, always set the same units of measurements for both rulers. |
| 06.08 | You will notice that the active ruler is in the color white. |
| 06.12 | The ends of the ruler represent the page margins values that we set in “Page Setup”. |
| 06.19 | Let us see how the Ruler displays measurements for objects. |
| 06.23 | Select the cloud. |
| 06.25 | Can you see two small start and end marks on the ruler? |
| 06.29 | These define the edges of the cloud. |
| 06.32 | If you move these marks on the ruler, you will notice that the figure changes accordingly. |
| 06.38 | The ruler shows the size of an object on the page; |
| 06.42 | It also enables us to position an object on the page and displays page boundaries. |
| 06.49 | Let us move on to the next basic aid - Align toolbar. |
| 06.53 | We use the “Align” toolbar to align the selected object to the left, right, top, bottom and centre. |
| 07.01 | To enable the “Align” toolbar, go to the “Main Menu” and click “View”. |
| 07.07 | Under the “View” menu, click “Toolbars”. |
| 07.11 | You will see the list of toolbars. |
| 07.13 | Click “Align”. |
| 07.15 | You will see the “Align” toolbar. |
| 07.18 | Let us now see how an object is aligned when we use different Align options. |
| 07.24 | Let us select the cloud. |
| 07.26 | On the “Align” toolbar, click “Left” |
| 07.29 | The cloud is aligned to the left. |
| 07.32 | Let us now understand the difference between the two options “Centered” and “Centre”. |
| 07.38 | We shall align the circle to “Centre” and then to “Centered”. |
| 07.43 | First let us align the circle to the “Right”. |
| 07.47 | Let’s select the circle, and on the Align toolbar, click Right. |
| 07.52 | Now, on the Align toolbar, click “Centre”. |
| 07.56 | The circle is aligned to the centre position. |
| 07.59 | The option “Centre” centres the object exactly between the top and bottom margins of the page. |
| 08.06 | It does not move the object with respect to the page-width. |
| 08.10 | Now, from the Align toolbar, let us select “Centered”. |
| 08.15 | The circle is aligned to the centre of the page. |
| 08.18 | The option “Centered” aligns the circle to the centre of the page. |
| 08.23 | It moves the object with respect to the top and bottom margins and the page-width. |
| 08.33 | Now, we shall move the objects back to their correct positions as per our sample drawing. |
| 08.40 | Remember to save the file before you close it. |
| 08.43 | Here is another assignment for you.
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| 08.46 | In MyWaterCycle file, add a page. |
| 08.50 | Create these two figures. |
| 08.53 | Move them using the arrow keys. |
| 08.55 | Select any object you have drawn and delete it. |
| 08.59 | Use the ruler to measure the size of some the objects. |
| 09.04 | Then use the “Align” toolbar and align the objects to the centre of the page. |
| 09.11 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial on LibreOffice Draw. |
| 09.15 | In this tutorial you have learnt how to create simple drawings using: |
| 09.19 | Using basic shapes such as lines, arrows, and rectangles |
| 09.24 | Basic geometric shapes, symbols, stars and banners. |
| 09.29 | You learnt to select and delete an object. |
| 09.32 | And use the ruler and the align toolbar to position objects. |
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