The Draw Workplace

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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The Draw Workplace

The main components of the Draw interface are shown in Figure 1.

The large area in the center of the window is where you make drawings. If you like, you can surround the drawing area with toolbars and information areas. The number and position of the visible tools vary depending on the task at hand and user preferences. Therefore, your setup may look different. For example, many users put the main Drawing toolbar on the left-hand side of the workspace—not at the bottom, as shown here.

You can split drawings in Draw over several pages. Multi-page drawings are used mainly for presentations. The Pages pane, on the left side of the Draw window in Figure 1, gives an overview of the pages you create. If the Pages pane is not visible on your setup, you can enable it from the View menu (View → Page Pane). To change the page order, simply drag and drop one or more pages.

In Draw, the maximum size of a drawing page is 300 cm by 300 cm, approximately 118 inches in each direction.

Figure 1: Initial Draw window