Status Bar

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Draw Guide

Chapter 1: Introducing Draw

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• Introduction
• The Draw Workplace
• Rulers
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• Toolbars and the Sidebar
  • Standard Toolbar
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  • 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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Status Bar

The Status bar is located at the bottom of the Draw window and includes several Draw-specific fields, as identified in Figures 4 and 5.

Figure 4: Left end of Draw Status Bar

Figure 5: Right end of Draw Status Bar

The Information field shows the action being performed, or the object type selected.

The Position field shows different information, depending on whether objects are currently selected or not:

• When no object is selected, the left number pair shows the current position (in X, Y Cartesian coordinates) of the mouse cursor.
• While an object is being resized with the mouse, the right number pair shows the size of the object (width and height).

The sizes are given in the current measurement unit (not to be confused with the ruler units). This unit is defined in Tools → Options → OpenOffice Draw → General, where you can also change the scale of the page.

• If an object is selected, the left number pair shows the X, Y coordinates of the upper-left corner, and the right number pair displays the size of the object, as seen in Figure 4. These numbers do not relate to the object itself, but to the selection outline, which is the smallest possible rectangle that can contain the visible part or parts of the object; see also Chapter 3 (Working with Objects and Object Points).
• When an object is selected, a double-click on this field opens the Position and Size dialog, which is described in detail in Chapter 4 (Changing Object Attributes).

In the Indicator field, an asterisk (*) is shown whenever any change is made to the document but not yet saved to disk.

To digitally sign the document, double-click or right-click in the Signature field to open the signature box. Note that a document must be saved at least once before it can be signed. After it is signed, an indicator is present in this field.

The Slide field shows the sequence number for the current drawing page, in addition to the total number of pages that you created so far. This is useful when your drawing has several pages. If you select an object, the field enclosed by parentheses shows the layer in which the object resides within the drawing. In the example of Figure 5, the object is on the Layout layer of Slide 1, and there is a total of one slide so far.

The Page style field shows which template is being used.

The vertical bar in the middle of the Zoom slider represents a zoom factor of 100%. To change the view magnification, drag the Zoom slider, or click on the + and – signs, or right-click on the zoom level percent to pop up a list of magnification values from which to choose. Double-click on the zoom level percent to open the Zoom & View Layout dialog.