Gobe Productive User's Guide - Drawing Tools

- Working in the graphics environment
- Drawing tools
- Pre-defined Shapes
- Pen Attributes
- Fill Color
- Text Color
- Customizing inks
- Customizing ink sets
- Transparency
- Moving items
- Resizing & Rotating items
- Aligning Items
- Reshaping, reorienting & smoothing shapes
- Arranging, grouping & locking items
- Creating Outlines
- Views & Layers
- Styles

# 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.
| Ellipse | Draws circles or ovals.
| Round Rectangle | Draws a rectangle with rounded corners.
| Arc | Draws a curve.
| Line | Draws a line.
| 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.
| 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].
| 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].
| 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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