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NewWrite
Adding Graphics to a NewWrite Document
Use graphics to add excitement and creativity to your NewWrite documents. One simple way to begin using graphics is by drawing a rectangle around some text.
1. Make sure you are in User Level 3 or 4. Select the rectangle tool.
2. Point to where you want to anchor the upper left corner of your rectangle.
3. Hold down the left mouse button while you move the mouse until the rectangle is the right size.
4. Release the mouse button and a black, filled rectangle appears with handles along its borders.
5. Choose Area Attributes from the Graphics menu and the Area Attributes dialog box appears. Click Unfilled, click Apply, then click Close.
6. Click Line Attributes in the Graphics menu. In the Line Attributes dialog box, choose a color for and a size for the line. Then click Apply and click Close.
7. The rectangle is complete. If you wish to change it, choose the Select tool, click on the rectangle to select it, then modify its attributes or resize it by dragging its resize handles.
NewWrite provides three ways to add graphics
- Draw the image yourself using the graphics tools or menu choices.
- Paste a graphic from the clipboard.
- Reserve space for a graphic by inserting a Graphic Frame.
A few hints about drawing graphics
- All the graphics tools in NewDraw are also available in NewWrite.
- Press the d key to duplicate a selected graphic. Press the p key to duplicate in place.
- Hold the shift key while pressing an arrow key to move a selected graphic one point (1/72 inch).
Some tips about pasting graphics
- Graphics can be placed on the clipboard by choosing Copy in the Edit menu of Scrapbook or NewDraw, or from the draw layer in NewWrite itself.
- You can paste graphics into the draw layer or into the text layer of your NewWrite document.
- When you paste into the text layer, the line height expands to accomodate the graphic. You can override this by setting a Manual line spacing value in the Paragraph menu, Line Spacing, Custom Spacing… dialog box.
- The keypress for Paste is SHIFT+INSERT or CTRL+V.
- To automatically wrap text around a graphic, select the graphic, then choose Wrap Type in the Graphics menu (available in User Level 4 only).
- Graphics copied from the text layer cannot be ungrouped or modified, so remember to save a copy of the original image before pasting into the text layer, if you expect to need to edit the graphic again later.
Graphic Frame
Unlike some other software programs, you need not define a space for graphics in your NewWrite document before you insert them, you can simply paste or draw graphics immediately into your document. However, NewWrite also provides an option to Create Graphic Frame in the Layout menu (User Level 2 and above).
A graphic frame is a placeholder for adding graphics later. Perhaps you plan to add pictures to your document after printing it, or maybe your artist is still busy drawing your graphics while you are working on the text portion of the document. In these situations and others, you may wish to use a graphic frame.
By default, Create Graphic Frame lets you draw a simple unfilled rectangle with Wrap Type set to Wrap Around Rectangle. You can change these attributes with items in the Graphics menu.
Last Modified 7 Mar 1999
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