Interaction

These menu check boxes determine the degree of interactive editing possible for a graphic. Five levels of editablity are provided. Their menu names and appearance of a selected graphic are shown in the left.

This setting may be used to enable interactive scaling of complex graphics. For example, a complex Bezier curve may need to be resized. This would be difficult to do by editing each vertex.

A decrease in the level of interaction for a graphic will provide fewer editing handles to be drawn. This is useful when a drawing contains numerous small graphics that are complete. In this case when selected they are not obscured by numerous editing handle details. The more restrictive setting may be used to prevent inadvertent resizing.

Scaling and resizing may be performed numerically using the Morph panel.

This capability is only provided for Bezier based grpahics, it does not apply to Text or Images.

Edit is the normal default interaction level for a graphic. In this case the editing behavior of the graphic is not modified. All editing and resizing handles are provided, no additional scaling handles are available.

Selection of Scale and Edit provides an additional set of rectangle resizing handles. These may be used to change the overall size of the graphic or to stretch the graphic in the horizontal or vertical direction.

Setting the Interaction Level to Scale provides the resizing handles of the Scale and Edit setting, but omits the normal resizing and editing handles. In this case the graphic may be interactively resized but not reshaped.

Setting the Interaction Level to Uniform Scale provides only two resizing handles and none of the normal resizing and editing handles. In this case the graphic may be interactively resized while maintaining the aspect ratio of the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the graphic.

Setting the Interaction Level to Freeze eliminates all scaling and resizing handles. The graphic may still be moved with a click and drag but not reshaped. This is a complimentary action to "locking" the graphic, in that case the graphic may be reshaped but not moved.

These setting are in no way permanent. A graphic that has a Freeze interaction level may be reshaped by using this submenu to change the interaction level back to normal - Edit.

The graphic needs to be returned to the Edit state for viewing and editing with the Graphic Details drawer.

If the graphic of interest is a Group, the Group Edit submenu is used to set the level of interaction for the group. This menu only applies to individual Bezier graphics.

The Group Edit value in effect for the document has no affect on the Interaction setting for individual graphics.