Operation Manual

• Fill holes – fills the blank areas in the graphic that can be created when applying a point
reduction.
• Tile size – enter the size of the rectangle for the background fill. The range of tile sizes is
between 8 and 128 pixels.
• Source picture – preview of the original image.
• Vectorized image – preview of the converted image. Click Preview to generate the
vectorized image.
• Progress – displays a progress bar during conversion.
• Preview – creates a preview of the converted image without applying any changes.
• OK – converts your graphic to polygons.
Breaking
After converting a graphic to polygons, you can break the graphic into groups of polygons. Each
group of polygons consists of one color.
1) Convert your graphic to polygons, see “Converting” above.
2) Make sure your graphic is selected and go to Modify > Break on the main menu bar, or
right-click on your graphic and select Break from the context menu to break your converted
graphic into groups of polygons.
3) Click on a color in your graphic then drag the group of polygons filled with that color out of
your graphic to create a new graphic OR press the Delete key and delete the color from
your graphic.
Splitting
After converting a graphic to polygons and breaking the graphic into groups of polygons, you can
then split these groups into individual polygons.
1) Convert your graphic to polygons, see “Converting” above.
2) Break your graphic into groups of polygons, see “Breaking” above.
3) Make sure your graphic is selected and go to Modify > Split on the main menu bar, right-
click on the graphic and select Split from the context menu, or use the keyboard
combination Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K to split groups of polygons into individual polygons.
4) Click on an individual polygon in your graphic and drag it out of your graphic or a polygon
group OR press the Delete key and delete the polygon from your graphic.
Bitmap conversion
All drawing objects placed into a LibreOffice drawing are vector graphics and these vector graphics
can be converted to a bitmap in PNG format. Any transparency effects in the original vector graphic
are lost during conversion even though the PNG format used does support transparencies.
To convert a vector graphic to a bitmap, go to Modify > Convert > To Bitmap on the main menu
bar or right-click on the graphic and select Convert > To Bitmap from the context menu.
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