Rulers

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Draw Guide

Chapter 1: Introducing Draw

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• Introduction
• The Draw Workplace
• Rulers
• Status Bar
• Toolbars and the Sidebar
  • Standard Toolbar
  • Drawing Tools
  • Line and Filling Tools
  • Text Formatting Toolbar
  • Color Bar
    • Choosing a color palette
  • Options Toolbar
• Drawing Grid and Guides
• Floating and Moving Toolbars
  • Customizing Toolbars
• Quick Printing
• Controlling Printing
  • Selecting General Printing Options
  • Printing Multiple Pages on a Single Sheet of Paper
  • Selecting Pages to Print
  • Printing a Brochure
  • Printing in Black and White (on a Color Printer)
• Exporting to PDF
  • Quick Export to PDF
  • Controlling PDF Content and Quality
• Exporting to Other Formats
• Exporting Draw Documents as Web Pages
• E-mailing Documents

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Rulers

You should see rulers (bars with numbers) on the upper and left-hand sides of the workspace. If they are not visible, you can enable them by selecting them from the View menu (View → Ruler).

The rulers show the size of a selected object on the page (see the gray double lines, highlighted in Figure 2). When no object is selected, they show the location of the mouse pointer, which helps to position drawing objects more accurately.

You can also use the rulers to manage object handles and guide lines, making it easier to position objects.

The page margins in the drawing area are also represented on the rulers. You can change the margins directly on the rulers by dragging them with the mouse.

Figure 2: Rulers show the size of the selected object

To modify the units of measurement of the rulers (which you can define independently), right-click on the desired ruler, as illustrated for the horizontal ruler in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Rulers in a drawing