Drawing Grid and Guides

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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Drawing Grid and Guides

Draw offers a grid as a drawing aid. The grid can be turned on or off by clicking on the Grid icon on the Options toolbar. The points of the grid displayed on the screen are not shown on the printed drawing. The color, spacing, and resolution of the grid points can be individually chosen for each axis. This is described in more detail in Chapter 8 (in the section titled “Configuring the grid”).

Guides are special “helper lines” that can be turned on or off by clicking on the Guides icon on the Options toolbar. Draw offers a “Snap” function, with which you can place drawings exactly on these guides or on a grid point, a page margin, or a border or point of another object. All snap functions are described in detail in Chapter 8 (Tips and Tricks).

Showing the position of the object while moving it makes positioning the object much easier. If the Guides function is active, pairs of vertical and horizontal lines enclosing the object are shown while moving the object. These lines extend to the edges of the drawing area. This function is also described in detail in Chapter 8.