
Chapter 6: Creating Drawings with Draw
Entering Text
To enter a text in a drawing, decide if the text should have a “normal” format as in a text
document or if the text should be handled as a graphic object that can be rotated, expanded,
minimized, et cetera. “Normal” text can also appear in the form of a legend (in a frame with
an arrow).
Open the Text floating toolbar from the main toolbar.
Note: Where Asian language support is enabled under Tools > Options >Language Settings
> Languages, there will be additional icons for entering vertical text.)
Normal Text
1. Enter “normal” text by clicking the Text icon.
2. Drag open a delimiting frame in the document which sets the position and maximum
width the text area should have. If the text is long, extend the frame in order to incorporate
the whole text. Position and the size of the frame can later be changed using the mouse;
but the frame cannot be made smaller than the text itself.
3. Enter the text. Select the text by holding down the Shift key while using the arrow keys or
use the mouse. The font and font size can now be modified as in regular text documents.
When the mouse is clicked anywhere on the document other than the text, text edit mode is
no longer in effect. Clicking the text once again, the text will be selected as an object. Now, it
can, for example, be rotated or the entire text moved. By double-clicking the text it can be
edited it again, for example, delete characters or set additional font attributes.
Fitting Text to Frames
1. With the Fit Text to Frame icon, draw a delimiting frame which predetermines the
position and size of the text.
2. Enter any text in the frame.
3. Click in any free area of the document.
Notice that the entered text is scaled so that it exactly fits into the frame.
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