Operation Manual

Lines, Shapes, and Effects 303
Drawing and editing shapes
QuickShapes are pre-designed objects of widely varying shapes that you can
instantly add to your page.
Once you've drawn a QuickShape, you can morph its original shape using
control handles, and adjust its properties—for example, by applying
solid/gradient colors, bitmaps (including your own bitmap pictures!), and
transparency effects to both the object's outline and fill.
Another way to create a shape is to draw a line (or series of line segments) and
then connect its start and end nodes, creating a closed shape.
QuickShapes
The QuickShape flyout on the Standard
Objects toolbar contains a wide variety of
commonly used shapes, including boxes,
ovals, arrows, polygons, stars, cubes, and
cylinders.
Once added to the page, it’s also possible to use the QuickShape context toolbar
situated above the workspace to adjust your QuickShape’s line weight, color,
style, and more.
New shapes always take the default line and fill (initially a black line with no
fill).