Graphics: images and shapes – Nisus Writer Pro User Manual

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Graphics: Images and Shapes

This portion of the manual shows you how to work with graphic images and shapes. The sections
include

Working with Various Types of Graphics

148

Importing Images

149

Resize an Image

151

Crop an Image

152

Edit an Image

153

Deleting shapes and floating images

155

Working with Floating Images

155

Using the Shape Wrap palette

156

Make an inline image into a floating image

156

The Shape Anchor

157

The Shape Bounding Box

158

Align a floating image

159

Cause text to wrap around an image

160

Set the padding the text leaves around an image

161

Cause text to appear on top of, or behind an image

162

Cause images to appear around text; create a “screen” behind text

162

Make a floating image an inline image

163

Working with Shapes

165

Inserting shapes

165

Add a shape to your document

165

Text and Callout boxes

166

About Text and Callout Boxes

166

Add a text or callout box to your document

167

Add a caption to your images

170

Drawing lines and arrows

171

Geometric type shapes

173

Modifying shapes

174

More tools on the Shapes palette

174

Select floating shapes without selecting text

175

Rearrange the front to back order of various floating shapes

177

Cause selected objects to function as a single unit

178

Cause grouped objects to function as a individual items 178
Working with multiple selected shapes

178

Using the Shape Fill palette

178

Using the Shape Shadow palette

179

Using the Shape Metrics palette

180

Move selected shapes by precise, designated amounts

180

Resize selected shapes by precise, designated amounts 181
Rotate selected shapes

181

The Canvas

182

Working with a Canvas

182

Additional tools for working with shapes

183

Set a preferred appearance for future drawn shapes

183

Copy the appearance of one shape to apply to a different shape184
Duplicate shapes

184

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