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Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on: Editing Curves and Polygons in LibreOffice Draw.


Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on
Editing Curves and Polygons
in LibreOffice Draw.


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Learning Objectives To edit Curves and Polygons.


In this tutorial, you will learn how

To edit Curves and Polygons in Draw.

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Prerequisites For this tutorial, you should have basic knowledge of LibreOffice Draw. If not, for relevant tutorials please visit http://spoken-tutorial.org



For this tutorial, you should have basic knowledge of LibreOffice Draw.

If not, for relevant tutorials please visit this website.

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System Requirements

Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4


Here we are using

Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 and
LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.
Switch to Routemap drawing

<<Enable the grid display if it is not visible. But do not record this part>>

Let us open our Routemap drawing once again.
Point to the Curves and Polygons in the drawing Previously, we learnt to draw curves and polygons.

Now let us learn how to edit them.

Point to the School Campus shape in the drawing Let’s change the shape of the School Campus.
We will use the Edit Points toolbar to do this.
Go to the Main menu >> Click View >> select Toolbars >> click Edit Points. From the Main menu, click View, select Toolbars, and click Edit Points.
Point to the Edit Points toolbar. The Edit Points toolbar is displayed.
Select the polygon “School Campus”. Now, let us select the polygon “School Campus”.
Click the “Points” icon on the Edit Points tool bar. Click the “Points” icon on the “Edit Points” tool bar.
Point the mouse to show that the green selection handles have changed to blue edit points. In the object, the green selection handles will change to blue edit points.

This indicates you are in the Edit point mode.

On the Edit Points toolbar >> click on the Insert points icon. On the “Edit Points” toolbar, click on the “Insert points” icon.
Move to the Draw page.

You will see a plus sign for the cursor.

Move to the Draw page.

The cursor will turn into a plus sign.

Place this plus sign on the left side outline of the School Campus polygon. Place this plus sign on the left of the School Campus polygon.
Press the left mouse button and drag right.

Release the button. Ensure you just added a point and did not change the shape in any way.

Press the left mouse button and drag it to the right.

Release the button.

You have inserted a point.

Click on the point that was inserted. Now, click on the point that was inserted.
The options in the “Edit Points” toolbar are enabled.
Go to Edit Points toolbar >> Symmetric Transition. Click on “Symmetric Transition”.
Select the dotted control line. The dotted control line appears next to the point.

Drag the control line to change the shape.

Let’s drag the control line outwards to change the shape of the campus.

The shape has changed!


From the Edit Points toolbar, click Points.
To exit, from the Edit Points toolbar, click Points.
Point to the campus.

Point to the top right corner point.

Now let’s elongate the campus to the right side.

Let’s specifically move only the last point on the top right.

Select the School Campus polygon. Select the School Campus polygon.
From the Main menu >> select Edit >> click Points. Let’s enable the “Edit Points” toolbar.
Point to the blue edit points that appear on the object. The blue edit points appear on the object.
Select the point to the extreme right, the one on the top corner of the polygon. Let us select this point.
From the Edit Points toolbar >> select Move points. On the Edit Points toolbar, click “Move points”.
Use the mouse and point that the selected point becomes dark blue. You will see that the selected point becomes dark blue.
Drag the point a little to the right. Now let’s drag the point to the right.
Point to the grid on the extreme right side. We can use the grid to position objects as per our requirement.
We have changed the shape of the School Campus again!
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Assignment Draw a curve Apply all the options from the Edit Points toolbar on it Practice a lot to master the Edit Points toolbar

Pause this tutorial and do this assignment.

Draw a curve and Apply all the options from the Edit Points toolbar on it. Remember you need a lot of practice to master the Edit Points toolbar.

Group all the objects in the map.

Press Ctrl + A Key the keyboard and Right Click And select Group

Lastly, let us group all the objects in the map.



Press Ctrl + A Key on the keyboard and right-click for the Context menu.

Now select Group.

All the objects are grouped now.

The map is complete!
Point to the buildings, roads, junctions. You can also color the buildings;

add roads using lines, add traffic signals and any other detail you require. <pause>

Display the sample coloured routemap. Here is our sample coloured routemap.
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Summary
To edit Curves and Polygons.

This brings us to the end of this tutorial
In this tutorial, we have learnt how

To edit Curves and Polygons.

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Comprehensive Assignment Create the map shown on this slide.
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Here is another assignment for you.

Create the map shown on this slide.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Contributors and Content Editors

Desicrew, Nancyvarkey