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Drawing Tools

The drawing tools for the Gobe Productive suite are located on the ToolBar.  To display the ToolBar, select Show ToolBar from the Window menu.  You can draw graphic shapes in all of the Gobe Productive documents. 

Graphic Buttons:  You can use these buttons to draw graphic shapes.  The icon on the button indicates the type of shape.

  1. Click the ToolBar button for the kind of shape you want to draw.

  2. Position the cursor anywhere in the workspace.

  3. Click and hold the mouse button and drag out the shape. 
Rectangle Draws a square or rectangle.
iconcircle.gif (961 bytes) Ellipse Draws circles or ovals.
iconrndbox.gif (954 bytes) Round Rectangle Draws a rectangle with rounded corners.
iconcurve.gif (945 bytes) Arc Draws a curve.
iconline.gif (946 bytes) Line Draws a line.
iconfreehand.gif (946 bytes) Freehand Draws a free hand shape. To draw a freehand object, hold down the mouse button while you drag-out the shape you want.  You can always go back later and edit curves and corners using the reshape tools. 
iconbeizer.gif (970 bytes) Bezigon Draws a Bezier curve.  A Bezier curve is very useful for designing curved objects.  To draw a Bezier curve, click once and drag out the first line, then click at each point where you want the curve to bend.  When finished, press [ENTER]. 
iconpoly.gif (964 bytes) Polygon Draws a polygon shape. To draw a polygon, click the polygon button then drag-out the first edge for the shape and release the mouse button.   Move the cursor and click at each corner of the shape.  When finished, press [ENTER].   
iconpredef.gif (984 bytes) Shapes Draws any number of pre-defined shapes.  For more information about creating pre-defined shapes and adding them to this palette, see the section Pre-defined Shapes.

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