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- Bitmaps with transparency are painted directly
- Bitmaps which are transformed (roatedrotated/sheared/mirrored) are painted directly
- Lines with LineWidth and/or transparence are painted directly
- Geometry and Pixel data is buffered in system-dependent formats
This allows e.g. For example, this allows to use even animated GIFs as object fill style for any object and transform these in real time (when supported on the system).
It also greatly enhances visualization geometry during editing (in the EditViews) greatly when supported.
DrawObject Improvements/Enhancements
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The Gradients are enhanced and extended with new, more useful ones, mainly taken from Symphony.
The old ones are kept, but moved to the end of the list (not in the picture).
These Gradients create much nicer fills e.g. for Slide Backgrundsfor uses such as Slide Backgrounds.
New Gallery Themes and Gallery enhancements
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Gallery themes
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added from Symphony.
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- Arrows
- Bullets (extended)
- Computers
- Diagrams
- Environment
- Finance
- People
- School & University
- Symbols
- Textshapes
- Transport
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Enhancements to existing Gallery
- Old themes are kept and sometimes extended
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- Gallery
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- now able to hold and offer SVG graphics
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- Many
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- new graphics are in SVG format
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- Saves space on your computer
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- Offers high quality
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- vector format
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- Ability to add your own
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- SVG and Metafile
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- format graphics
- Can now be oriented horizontally or vertically and will adapt it's layout automatically
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- Now also available anytime in the new Sidebar
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Reworked Selection Handles
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- Selection Handles were reworked to be better distinguishable.
- Transparency was added to give a slight 'clue' when
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- the Handles cover something, but only for the Handle's fill
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- to not make them hard to view.
- The design
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- was slightly rounded.
- Colors were tweaked a little bit for better identification.
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- When Keyboard-travelling over handles (CTRL-TAB) yellow handles used for CustomShapes now blink as the other handles to visualize the active handle correctly.
Reworked Selection Visualization
- For many
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- occasions the selection of objects or multiple objects got enhanced using the selection color from the system.
- Usage and fetching of that system-wide SelectionColor was unified to guarantee it for all selections on all Systems.
- A slight blinking was added to identify objects where text can be added by starting to type or pressing return.
This is used in various places , such as example try ; Objects with TextEdit mode, hilight of objects as Drag&Drop target or object manipulation (dashed black/white lines were used before). Also a slight blinking was added to identify objects where text can be added by starting to type or pressing return.
Better Print Preview
The PrintPreview in the Print dialog is now fully AntiAlialized. The previous version was not, thus thin lines could vanish or produce missing parts.
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The conversion to Bitmap graphics is greatly enhanced for all kinds of draw objects, including chart OLEs and others. This
is not only useful for internally converting objects to bitmaps, but also used for exports where bitmaps are needed, and
the system clipboard. It works with single objects and multiselectionsas well as multiple selections. Transparencies of the object and AntiAliasing on
it's edges are perfect now. Try it out!
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- The new Bitmap FillType preserves Transparency, the old version was not capable of this and added a withe white background.
- It allows to the use of vector graphics which stay vector graphic when processed.
- It supports SVG and Metafile as FillData, no longer restricted to BitmapData.
- For all this, Tiling, AutoFit, Size, Position and Offset settings are fully supported (in Area dialog).
- Animated GIF's are now allowed as FillTypes now, too.
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Examples of this include:
- Self-create a scaling-independent fill by drawing anything anytime
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- using DRawObjects
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- converting it to Metafile
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- create a FillStyle based on it
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- Use an SVG or import a vector format (WMF) to define a new FillStyle.
- Think about
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- the possibilities for filling the Backgrounds of Pages, Chart bars or other
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- items.
- This will be used as vector data when printing or at PDF export.
Enhanced Copy/Paste
All applications now support transparent and anti-aliased versions of e.g. , for example, DrawObjects in the selection to be exchanged with external Applications.
This is a result of the enhanced conversion to Bitmap and adding the PNG graphic format to the supported clipboard formats.
Non-Graphic objects are converted on-demand, Graphic and graphic objects are copied with full transparency and AntiAliasing support.
It is now e.g. possible to Copy/Paste any object to an external PixelGraphic application, modify it as needed, and copy it back to any OpenOffice Application without quality loss.
This allows everyone easy and complete image manipulation outside the Office.
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