Graphicals Features

In this part, we are going to talk about the graphicals features of LaTeXDraw. But before that, we must explain what is a delimitor : it is a purple, green, red, ... square delimiting a selected figure, like show in the following picture :

You can move these delimitors to change the shape of the figures like explained in these following paragraphes.

You can select a figure by :

• Clicking on the borders of a figure
• Clicking in the interior of a filled figure
• Pressing the left button and drag the mouse to the wanted figures

To select a grid you must use the third case. Indeed, it will be annoying if you have a grid in the backgroud of your drawing and a rectangle, for example, placed on the grid ; if you want to selected the rectangle, the grid will be selected to ...

To unselect figures, click in an empty place in the draw panel.

To move select figures, you must :

• Pressing the left button on the borders, or in the interior of a filled figure, or on the delimitors and drag the figure ;
• Pressing the right button anywhere in the draw panel and drag the figure. Beware, if you do a rigth click, a popup menu will appear.

You can rescale a figure by dragging one of the delimitors. If you have selected several figures, you can rescale all of them by dragging the delimitors which framing all the selected shapes.

With the toolbar you can place a figure :

• In the background of the drawing with the button :
• In the foreground of the drawing with the button :
• Behind an other figure with the button : . After have clicked on this button, you must click on the figure you to be in front of the selected figures.
• In front an other figure with the button :
. After have clicked on this button, you must click on the figure you to be behind the selected figures.

To rotate selected figures, you must click on the following button in the toolbar . Then the delimitors will become green, it means that the rotation is activated. To disactived the rotation click on the rotation button.
Then, to rotate figures, you must drag of the delimitors.

LaTeXDraw can join several selected figures ; for that, select several figures and click on the following button in the toolbar. All these figures will be joined in order to create only one figure.

By the same way, you can separate joined figures using this button .

By default, the dimensions of the drawing are framed by all the figures. You can display the borders of the drawing with the following button in the "Draw" menu . For example, it can be :


Where the borders of the drawing is the rectangle framing all the figures.

You can change the dimensions of the drawing by :

• Clicking of the button to display the borders
• Desactivate the auto update of the borders of the drawing using this button in the menu "Draw" :
• Clicking on the "selection" button in order to select the borders

Then, the delimitors of the borders of the sketch must be displayed like in this picture :


Now, You can change the dimensions of the sketch by dragging these delimitors.

In a LaTeX document a change of the dimensions of the drawing change the disposition of the document like show in the following picture :