Drawing Objects & Its Properties

☞ Drawing objects are the drawing tools which are available above the Status Bar.

☞ It includes AutoShapes, curves, Lines, and TextArt.

☞ All these tools are present on Drawing Toolbar.

☞ To open Drawing toolbar, View → Toolbar → Drawing.

☞ To create any Drawing object, Select any tool → Drag the mouse over the page.

Properties of Drawing Objects

☞ The different properties of a drawing object are categorized into:

1. Area
2. Line
3. Effect
4. Position and Size

☞ Area: It works on fill area of the drawing object.

  This category contains:

  • Fill: It allows you to apply background colour, gradient, etc.
  • Transparency: It allows you to set the transparency level.

☞ Line: It works with the border of the drawing object.

  This category contains:

  • Style: It sets the style of line or border.
  • Thickness: It sets the width or thickness of the line or border.
  • Color: It sets the colour of line or border.
  • Transparency: It sets the transparency level of line or border.
  • Line: It sets the style of beginning arrowhead.
  • Corner style: It sets the styles for the edges of drawing objects.
  • Cap style: It sets the style of line cap.

☞ Effects: It gives the effect to the drawing object.

  This category contains:

  • Glow
    1. Radius: It gives a thick effect outside the boundary of drawing object.
    2. Colour: It sets the colour of effect given to drawing object.
    3. Transparency: It sets the transparency level of effect given to drawing object.
  • Soft Edges
    1. Radius: It gives a thick effect inside the boundary of drawing object.

☞ Position and Size: It works with the size of the drawing object.

 This category contains:

  • Width: It sets the width of drawing object.
  • Height: It sets the height of drawing object.
  • Rotation: It sets the angle for rotation.
  • Flip: It allows flipping the drawing object horizontally and vertically.
  • Arrange: It allows arranging the drawing object like Bring to Front, Forward One, Back One, Send to Back, To Foreground and To Background.
  • Align: It sets the alignment of drawing object like Left, Right, Center, Top, Center and Bottom.