Operation Manual

Figure 162. Changing the color palette
You can access several specialized color palettes in Draw, as well as change individual colors to
your own taste. This is done using the Area dialog by selecting Format > Area on the main menu
bar or clicking the Area icon on the Line and Filling toolbar, then selecting the Colors tab
(Figure 162).
To load another palette, click on the Load Color List icon . The file selector dialog asks you to
choose one of the standard LibreOffice palettes (files with the file extension *.soc). For example,
web.soc is a color palette that is adapted to creating drawings for placing in web pages. These
colors will display correctly on workstations with screens capable of at least 256 colors.
The color selection box also lets you individually change any color by modifying the numerical
values in the fields provided to the right of the color palette. You can use the color schemes known
as CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) or RGB (Red, Green, Blue).
Click on the Edit button to open the Color dialog, where you can set individual colors. See “Color
options” in Chapter 2 Setting Up LibreOffice in this guide.
For a more detailed description of color palettes and their options, see the Draw Guide Chapter 10
Advanced Draw Techniques.
Drawing basic shapes
Draw provides a wide range of shapes, located in palettes accessed from the Drawing toolbar
(Figure 157) and a full list of these various tools is shown in Figure 163. The icons or buttons that
already installed on the Drawing toolbar are highlighted in Figure 163. This may differ from the
tools that are installed on your Drawing toolbar.
This section describes only a few of the basic shapes, which are treated as objects in Draw,
including text. See the Draw Guide for a complete description of the shapes available.
Please note that some of the icons on the Drawing toolbar will change according to the shape that
has been selected from the choice available. Icons with tool palettes available are indicated by a
small triangle to the right of the icon.
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