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Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Draw Guide

Editing Pictures (Raster Graphics)

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• Introduction
• Importing Raster and Vector Graphics
  • Link or Embed?
  • Scanning
  • Pasting from the Clipboard
  • Dragging and Dropping
  • Inserting from a File
• Exporting Graphics
  • Exporting the Entire File
  • Exporting Single Objects
  • Exporting as a Vector Graphic
  • Exporting as a Raster Graphic
• Modifying Raster Object Properties
• The Picture (Editing) Toolbar and Graphic Pane
• Cropping
• The Graphic Filter Toolbar
• Changing Colors Using the Color Replacer
  • Practical Example: Changing Wrong Colors to Transparency
  • Effect of the Tolerance Parameter
  • Color Depth
    • Reducing color depth
• Conversion
  • Convert to a Contoured Image
  • Convert to a Polygon
    • Number of Colors
    • Point Reduction
    • Fill Holes
  • Convert to Bitmap
• Print Options with Raster Graphics

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Inserting from a File

With this option, you can insert complete pages or single objects from existing Draw or Impress documents into your Draw document. Additionally, you can insert text in Rich Text Format (RTF), HTML format, or plain text. The text will be contained within a text frame. The usual paragraph and character formatting options are available for this text.

Choosing Insert → File brings up the File selection dialog. Select the required file and click  Insert . If the file is a Draw or Impress document, the Insert Slides/Objects dialog (Figure 122) opens.

To access single pages or slides of the document, click on the expansion symbol (usually a + or a small triangle, depending on your operating system) to the left of the file name in the selection area. The same method is used to display single objects within slides. Raster graphics (for example, photos) and Metafiles are marked with a , drawing objects with a , and OLE objects with a .

Figure 122: Inserting complete pages or objects on a page

Choose the slides or objects you want to insert; for multiple selections, press the  Control  or  ⇧ Shift  key while clicking on the items. Then click  OK  to insert the selected items.

If the inserted object was named in the source document, it keeps its original name, unless the name already exists in the current document. In that case, you must give the object a new name before inserting it. To rename an inserted object, right-click and choose Name from the pop-up menu. Renaming has the advantage that the object is then listed in the Navigator.

You can choose whether to embed or link the selected page or object.