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Custom Shapes Work in progress.
Contents
How to Use Custom Shapes
What is a 'Custom Shape'
Handles
Extrusion
FontWork
Tutorial: Create Own Custom Shapes
Getting started
This chapter gives you an overview to the work flow and tools using a simple example.
New Document
Start with a new Draw document and insert a rectangle. Make sure you use the rectangle form the “Basic Shapes”. Name the shape “MyShape” and save the document to e.g. “Start.odg”. Close the document but not Apache OpenOffice.
- Not starting from scratch but with an existing custom shape has some advantages: You need not take care about the document itself, about embedding the shape into a page and a layer, or about any styles.
- It is useful to name a shape. Such named shape is listed in the Navigator and you can select it from the navigator.
Such odg-document is actual a zip-container. So you first need to unzip the file. I use the application "7-Zip" for this task, because it does not look at the filename-extension, but can unzip the odg-file directly. Other unpacker might need, that you change the filename-extension from ".odg" to ".zip".
- The ODF specification knows an flat, not packed format too. It has the filename-extension ".fodg", but Apache OpenOffice cannot yet read oder write it.