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Reverse path
The slider on the infobar allows you to change the size of the arrow head and tail on the current selected
line. Or you can enter a percentage value into the size text field to the right of the slider.
By default new arrowheads are created with a width of around 6 times that of the line width and that is
taken as the 100% size, as indicated by the size slider. If you make the line wider, the arrowhead width
also updates accordingly. Therefore enter a value less than 100% to reduce the size of the arrowhead
(and tail), or greater than 100% to increase. Although the slider only takes the size value up to a
maximum of 800%, you can enter percentage values larger than this into the size text field.
Reverse path
Press the Reverse path button on the infobar to switch around the
head and tail of the selected line.
Adding more line segments
Lines created with the Straight Line Tool are of course fully compatible with the other drawing tools.
So if you want to add more segments to a line, make it curved, or perhaps even turn it into a closed
shape, use the Shape Editor Tool
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Rectangle Tool
To draw a rectangle, select the Rectangle Tool
and just drag across the page. You will see a solid filled shape as you
drag across the page, indicating the fill and line color and boundaries of
the shape you are drawing.
Click the 'curved corners' button on the InfoBar to make this a rounded
rectangle - and you can drag on the curved corner handle to adjust the
roundedness.
You can drag on any corner handle to resize an object.
Drag and drop a color from the Color Line onto your shape to re-color it. See Coloring Shapes. With
the Selector Tool you can drag it, resize it and rotate it as required. See Selector Tool. You can put this
rectangle behind all other objects as a background image, by pressing "Ctrl + B" for 'Put to back'.
Alternatively if it's in front of all other objects ("Ctrl + F") then you can right click on it and select Repel
text under
to make the text on your page repel around the outside of this shape (another Web Designer Premium
first for any web authoring tool.)
Fill Tool
You can easily put a graduated color fill onto a shape using this
tool (and a lot more besides). Select the tool and just drag
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