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<tr> <td> <h1>Graphicals Features</h1> <br><br>
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we are going to talk about the graphicals features of LaTeXDraw. But
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before that, we must explain what is a <b>delimitor</b> :
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it is a purple, green, red, ... square delimiting a selected figure,
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like show in the following picture :<br>
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<img alt="rectangle" title="rectangle" src="./images/mirrors.jpg"><br>You can move these
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delimitors to change the shape of the figures like explained in these
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following paragraphes.
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<br><br><ul> <li><a href="#Select">Select</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Move">Move</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Rescale">Rescale</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Put">Put in front, behind, ...</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Rotation">Rotation</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Join">Join/separate</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Dimension">Change the dimensions of the drawing</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Mirrors">The mirrors</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Magnet">The magnetic grids</a></li>
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<a name="Select"> <h2>Select figures</h2>
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You can select a figure by :
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<ul><li>Clicking on the borders of a figure</li>
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<li>Clicking in the interior of a filled figure</li>
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<li>Pressing the left button and drag the mouse to the wanted
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</ul>To select a <b>grid</b> you must use the third
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case. Indeed, it will be annoying if you have a grid in the backgroud
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of your drawing and a rectangle, for example, placed on the grid ; if
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you want to selected the rectangle, the grid will be selected to ...<br><br>
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To <b>unselect</b> figures, click in an empty place in the
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<a name="Move"> <h2>Move figures</h2>
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To move select figures, you must :
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<ul><li><b>Pressing the left</b> button on the
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borders, or in the interior of a filled figure, or on the delimitors
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and drag the figure ;</li>
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<li>Pressing the right button anywhere in the draw panel and drag
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the figure. Beware, if you do a rigth click, a popup menu will appear.</li>
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<br><br><br><br><a name="Rescale">
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<h2>Rescale figures</h2>
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You can rescale a figure by dragging one of the delimitors. If you have
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selected several figures, you can rescale all of them by dragging the
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delimitors which framing all the selected shapes.
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<a name="Put"> <h2>Put a figure in front, behind,
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... an other figure</h2>
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<img alt="toolbar" title="toolbar" src="./images/toolbar.jpg"><br>With the toolbar you
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<ul><li>In the <b>background</b> of the
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drawing with the button : <img alt="background" title="background" src="./images/background.png"></li>
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<li>In the <b>foreground</b> of the drawing with the
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button : <img alt="foreground" title="foreground" src="./images/foreground.png"></li>
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<li><b>Behind</b> an other figure with the button : <img alt="behind" title="behind" src="./images/behindSelect.png">. After have clicked on this
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button, you must click on the figure you to be in front of the selected
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<li><b>In front</b> an other figure with the button :
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<img alt="inFrontOf" title="In front of" src="./images/inFrontSelect.png"></li>. After have
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clicked on this button, you must click on the figure you to be behind
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<br><br><br><br><a name="Rotation">
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<h2>Rotate figures</h2>
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<img alt="rotation" title="rotation" src="./images/rotateB.jpg"><br><br>
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This mini-toolbar allow to rotate figures:
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<li>The button without arrow allows to rotate a or several figures with the mouse; to do that, you just have to drag
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one of the delimitors (by clicking of this button all the delimitors become green). To come back to the normal mode, you
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must click again on this button (the delimitors will take their original colour);</li>
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<li>The buttons with an arrow allow to rotate immediately a or several figures or 90, 180 and 270�.</li>
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<a name="Join"> <h2>Join/separate several selected
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LaTeXDraw can <b>join</b> several selected figures ; for
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that, select several figures and click on the following button <img alt="join" title="join" src="./images/join.png">
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in the toolbar. All these figures will be joined in order to create
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only one figure.<br><br>
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By the same way, you can <b>separate</b> joined figures
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using this button <img alt="separate" title="separate" src="./images/separate.png">.
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<a name="Dimension"> <h2>Change the dimensions of
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By default, the dimensions of the drawing are framed by all the
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figures. You can display the borders of the drawing with the following
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button in the "Draw" menu <img alt="borders" title="display borders" src="./images/Object.gif">.
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For example, it can be :<br><br>
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<img alt="borders" title="display borders" src="./images/displayBorders.jpg"><br>Where the
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borders of the drawing is the rectangle framing all the figures.<br><br>
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You can change the dimensions of the drawing by :
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<ul><li>Clicking of the button <img alt="borders" title="display borders" src="./images/Object.gif"> to
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display the borders</li>
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<li>Desactivate the auto update of the borders of the drawing
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using this button in the menu "Draw" : <img alt="autoBorders" title="auto update" src="./images/AutoBorders.png"> </li>
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<li>Clicking on the "selection" button in order to select the
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borders <img alt="select" title="select" src="./images/select.png"></li>
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</ul>Then, the delimitors of the borders of the sketch must be
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displayed like in this picture :<br><br>
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<img alt="borders" title="borders" src="./images/bordersSel.jpg"><br>Now, You can change
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the dimensions of the sketch by dragging these delimitors.<br><br>
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In a LaTeX document a change of the dimensions of the drawing change
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the disposition of the document like show in the following picture :<br><br>
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<img alt="example" title="example" src="./images/example.jpg">
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<a name="Mirrors"> <h2>The mirrors</h2></a>
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<img alt="Mirror" title="Mirrors" src="./images/mirrors.jpg">
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There is two mirrors: vertical an horizontal. It works with an axial symmetry by using the gravity center of the selected figure
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or of the group of selected figures.
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For the moment, when a picture, a grid or axes are transformed with this feature, their coordinates are moved but
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the shape is not realy changed; in a future release, an option will allow the user to do that (there is the same problem
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for gradient: when you apply a mirror, the gradient is not changed).
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<a name="Magnet"> <h2>The magnetic grids</h2></a>
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<img alt="Magnet" title="Magnet" src="./images/magneticGrid.jpg">
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This feature is very usefull when you want to place figures.<br>
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To have a magnetic grid, selected the checkbox; but to display the grid you have to select it in the menu
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"Display"->"Grid"->"Standard grid" or "Personal grid".<br><br>
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<li><b>The standard grid:</b> this grid is define in centimeter or in inch (you can choose it);</li>
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<li><b>The personal grid:</b> this grid allows you to define the interval between the lines of the grid; to
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do that, you can use to field near the "Magnetic checkbox" checkbox. This field is enable only when the
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personal grid is displayed.</li>
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