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Basic Editing in Star Office Draw

StarOffice Draw Feature List - "Basic Editing"

Object Manipulation

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Group / Ungroup Objects

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Enter & exit grouped objects

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Name groups

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Combine objects

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Manipulate anchor points

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Manipulate control points

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Reduce number of points

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Edit Bitmap

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Vectorize Bitmaps

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Rotate objects freely

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Slant selected objects

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Mirror or flip shapes

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Protect / unprotect object edit or deletion

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Changing Z-Order of objects

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Resize object by stretching

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Resize object proportionally

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Snap to grid or objects

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Crop elements

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Create animated objects

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Convert any object to curve or Polygon

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Convert any object to 3-D object

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Convert Clip-Arts to 3-D object

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Connectors between objects

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"Stylist" (floating style palette with style groups)

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Smooth objects to curve or perspective

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Duplicate objects (resize, rotation & no. of copies)

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Multiple selection

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Presentation objects

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Background Cache for master slide

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Color Tool bar

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Search & Replace Functions

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Case-sensitive search

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Search user-defined area

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Search backwards

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Single/multiple-character wildcards

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Search for non printable characters

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Search and Replace in multiple files

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Macro

 
         
 

Zoom Function

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Zoom up to 3000%

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User-defined zoom factor

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Zoom to entire page

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Zoom to page width

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Object zoom

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Zoom history

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Normal zoom

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Keyboard Control

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Move Workplace

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Move objects

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Navigation between slides

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Quick Zoom

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Colors / Fills

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Graduated background shading/coloring

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Gradient text fill

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Bitmap text fill

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Save edited color palette

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Save/load user-defined palettes (color, gradient, Bitmap)

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Save/load user-defined lines (styles & line-ends)

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Edit symbol palette

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Import /export from symbol palette via drag&drop

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Fill text with color, gradient or Bitmap

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Colors / Fills

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Save/load user-defined color, gradient and Bitmap palette

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Save/load user-defined line, line style and arrow ends palette

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Edit symbol palette

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Import and export from symbol palette via drag & drop

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Fill text with colors, gradients or Bitmap textures

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