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Overview
“Apple Draw” is an OpenDoc-based editor for creating simple drawings. It provides tools for creating shapes such as rectangles, lines, ovals, and round rectangles. If you have a text part editor installed, it will also let you create a new part in which to enter text. It will also let you embed any other OpenDoc part via drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste.
Requirements
• OpenDoc™ (1.0.4 or later — 1.1 or later works best)
• ODFLibrary (1.0 or later)
• A Macintosh-compatible computer with a minimum of 16 megabytes of memory (RAM) or virtual memory.
Usage
In order to create a new Apple Draw document, double-click on an Apple Draw stationery pad file in the Finder.
To embed other parts or content, drag other stationery or document files into an open Apple Draw document from the Finder. Another good place to find content to drag in is by looking in your Scrapbook (found under the Apple menu). You can also paste such content in or use the Insert menu item to insert a file.
Tools
The tool palette initially appears at the top-left of the screen after opening an Apple Draw stationery or document file. This window contains tools for creating and manipulating the contents of an Apple Draw document.
The arrow tool is used to select shapes or parts that have already been drawn. Note: in order to select an embedded part, you will have to either hold the shift-key down while clicking it, activate it and click on the gray border (where the hand cursor appears), or click outside the part and drag so that the entire part is enclosed by the selection marquee.
To create a shape, select the appropriate tool from the tool palette and click and drag in the Apple Draw document window.
The three buttons under the tools in the tool palette are used to determine if shapes will be frame-only, fill-only, or frame-and-fill.
At the bottom of the tool palette are several popup menu buttons. These popups allow you to set the fill color, fill pattern, frame/line color, frame/line pattern, line width, and arrow heads (for lines). These popup operate on the contents of the current selection if there is one. If there isn’t, they affect the default settings for new shapes.
Options menu
The Options menu contains document-wide settings such as size, background color, and grid.
Document Size…
This menu item will present a dialog box in which you can change the size of the document (Apple Draw documents can be at most 5 pages wide and 5 pages tall). The size of each page will depend on the paper size and orientation settings in the Page Setup dialog box (in the File menu). This item will only be available when Apple Draw is at the root of the document. When Apple Draw is embedded in another document, it won’t appear.
Show/Hide Tools
This menu item allows you to show and hide the tool palette floating window. By default, this window will be shown.
Show/Hide Graphics Grid
This menu item allows you to show or hide the grid. The grid shown corresponds to the setting of the Grid Spacing dialog box. When visible, the graphics grid appears in the document window:
Turn Autogrid On/Off
This menu item will toggle the state of the autogrid. When the autogrid is on, shapes will be constrained as you are creating, resizing, or moving them such that their sides will match the grid’s size.
Grid Spacing
This item presents a dialog box in which you can set the size of the grid used for constraining drawing when autogrid is turned on and for the drawing of the grid on screen.
Background Color
The background color submenu allows you to select a color for the background of the Draw part on which you are working.
Item menu
The Item menu contains commands that apply to the selected item or items, or to the creation of new items.
Move To Front, Move Forward, Move Backward, Move To Back
These items rearrange the order of the selected shape(s). They can be used to move one shape in front of or behind another.
Align
The align submenu allows you to align the contents of the current selection along a side or in the horizontal or vertical center.
Group
Group is used to combine multiple shapes into one. Once grouped, clicking on one of the shapes will select them all. Clicking on an embedded part (without the shift key down), however, will activate the part, letting you modify its contents.
Ungroup
Ungroup is used to take a grouped shape and split it apart into the multiple shapes
Round Corners
This item presents a dialog box that, when there is no selection, allows you to set the type of round rectangle that the round rectangle tool will create. You can round each corner to the amount specified or round the ends of the shape so that the shorter sides are totally rounded.
Notes
If you have an earlier version of Apple Draw (for example, from the OpenDoc DR5 CD), documents and stationery created by it will no longer function with Apple Draw 1.0b1 and later. This was the result of a data format change made during the alpha period.
Bug Reporting
Report any problems you find by using the bug report form on this CD and e-mailing it to odbugs@apple.com or use the bug report form at <http://www.opendoc.apple.com/forms/bug_report.html>. In either case be sure to report the specific version of the viewer. The version can be obtained by selecting the part library and using the “Get Info” command in the Finder or by checking the About box under the Apple menu.
