System information

To scale an object by dragging.....................................................................128
7.13 Moving an object..............................................................................................129
To move an object or a copy of an object by dragging.................................130
7.14 Shearing an object...........................................................................................132
About shearing.............................................................................................132
To shear an object........................................................................................132
7.15 Transforming an object by specifying exact values........................................134
To transform an object by specifying exact values......................................134
7.16 Creating new shapes.......................................................................................135
Drawing ellipses and rectangles.................................................................135
To create a new shape.................................................................................135
7.17 Creating a new path.........................................................................................136
To create a new path....................................................................................136
7.18 Editing a path...................................................................................................137
To edit a path................................................................................................137
7.19 Adding or removing an anchor point...............................................................139
Reasons for adding or removing anchor points..........................................139
To add an anchor point.................................................................................139
To remove an anchor point..........................................................................139
7.20 Masking objects...............................................................................................140
To mask an object........................................................................................140
7.21 Viewing the properties of a pixel image..........................................................141
Pixel image properties.................................................................................141
To view the properties of a pixel image.......................................................141
7.22 Resampling pixel images................................................................................141
About resampling.........................................................................................141
Reasons for downsampling an image..........................................................141
Interpolation methods..................................................................................142
Average Resampling....................................................................................142
SubSampling................................................................................................142
Bicubic Resampling......................................................................................142
Bilinear Resampling.....................................................................................142
Bicubic B-Spline Resampling......................................................................142
To resample a single image.........................................................................142
To resample multiple images......................................................................143
7.23 Compressing pixel images..............................................................................143
About compression......................................................................................143
Compression methods.................................................................................143
ASCII filters...................................................................................................143
To compress a single image........................................................................144
7.24 Viewing statistics of selected objects..............................................................144
About statistics.............................................................................................144
To view statistics of selected objects...........................................................144
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