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Shapes
The Shapes
The Parameters of the Shapes
You can modify a shape by using the parameters frame that you
can display by double clicking on the shape or by clicking on this
button : .
Then, the following frame must be displayed :
You can also modify a figure with the
toolbar of LaTeXDraw :
You can especially modify :
Rectangle & Square

To create a
rectangle or a square use these button : .
Press the left button and drag the mouse to enlarge the rectangle.
Line

To
create a line, press the left button and drag the mouse to enlarge the
line.
Ellipse
& Circle

To create an
ellipse/circle, press the left button and drag the mouse to enlarge the
shape.
Bézier
Curve

To draw a
Bézier Curve, a left click creates a point and a double left click or a right click stops the creation.
You can move the points of references by selecting
the figure and move the delimitors.
You can equilibrate a Bézier curve with the button "equilibrate" in its parameters frame; all control points are recomputed in order to form a round shape. The "distance" field define the distance of the control points when they are equilibrate.
A Bézier can be closed or open; when closed, a curve or a line joins the two extremities of the curve.
Polygon

To create an
polygon, click with the rigth button and drag the mouse then click to
create an other point, etc.
Triangle
& Rhombus

To create a
triangle/Rhombus, press the left button and drag the mouse to enlarge
the shape.
Grid

To
create a grid, do a right click in the draw panel; a frame of the
parameters of the grid must appeared. A grid has a lots of parameters
that you can change in this frame.
A grid can not be resized with its delimitors, but
you can change the parameters "unit" to enlarge each box of the grid.
Arc

To
create an arc, press the left button and drag the mouse to enlarge the
shape.
There is three kind of arcs :
Point

To
create a point, do a right click in the draw panel. It exists a lots of
kind of point (crossed dot, square, bar, ...) that you can change in
the list "dot style".
- Some kind of points can be filled
like pentagon.
- Like most of the shapes, you can change the size and the colors.
Free hand

To use free hand, press the left button and drag the mouse to create points.
Shape, created with free hand, can be either a curve or joined-lines; you can change that in the frame of parameters.
Only few points are drawn compare to the number of created points; you can define the interval between each points with the field "interval".
It can be closed or open; when closed a line joins the two extremities.
Text

To
create a text, do a right click in the draw panel; a frame of the
parameters of the text must appeared. You can enter the text in the
field. The text can be bold, in italic and can use severals fonts and
size.
A text can not be resized with its delimitors.
A text can be opaque and you can define the colour of the opacity.
A text can be boxed by one or several boxes; a box can be a rectangle, an oval, an circle,
an diamond or a triangle.

The frameSep parameter define the separation between the figure and the box.
A box can be edited like every shape with the button "edit".
The boxSep parameter is used for several boxes; it define if the size of the current box must be considered
during the definition of the position and the size of the boxes.
For several boxes:
- you can add a box by clicking on the button "add" and by selecting the part of the text you want to box.
If the message "Invalid box, ..." occurred, it means that the box can be created because the box you want to create
overlap another box.
- you can remove or modify a the boxed text by selecting the box in the list; then
you can delete or modify the selected box;
Joined Lines

To create joined lines, go to the polygon section.
- Joined lines can have arrows
- They have the same properties of polygons
Axes

Axe is one of the most complex figure of LaTeXDraw; its parameters are fully explain is the PSTricks documentation
you can found on the LaTeXDraw page.
All its features are no yet implemented; in LaTeXDraw 1.9, you will be able to customize the labels and to choose which
package (definition of psaxes) you want to use (pst-plot or pstricks-add).
The position of the
borders
You can change the position of the borders of some figures :
Like show in this picture :

The colors
You can change the color of the borders, the interior of the figure,
the hatching or of the double seperation with
the parametres frame or with the toolbar :

Filled/hatched
Some shapes can be filled or hatched, like rectangle, rhombus, ... To
fill a shape, selected the checkbox "filled", the button to change the
color of the interior of the shape must appeared.
To hatch a figure, select a kind of hatching in the list in the toolbar
or in the parameters frame. LaTeXDraw do not manage to angle of the
hatching so, by default, the angle is 0.

The Arrows
Lines ans arcs can have arrows ; there are a lots of kind of arrows
listed is the field like shown in the following pictures :

The thickness
You can change the thickness of a figure with the field "thickness :"
of the toolbar or of the parameters frame. However, points do not have
thickness but size which can be changed in the same field.
The kind of the borders
There is 3 kind of borders :
Like show in the following picture :

The double borders
Some figures can have double borders like rectangle, circle, ... For
that, select the checkbox "dle bound.". The double borders are, in
general, movable
(inner, outer, middle).

Shadow
Now, a shape can have a shadow; a shape is defined by:
- its color;
- its size;
- its angle.
Colours shifting
Two colours can be used to fill a shape; the shifting is defined by:
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