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In most cases, you will choose one of the standard fill options, which

are all available from the Line and Filling toolbar. You can also define

your own area fills; see Chapter 4 of the

Draw Guide

for details.

Adding a shadow

In Draw, shadows are considered an area

property. Click on the Shadow icon on the Line

and Filling toolbar.

You can customize the position, distance, color,

and transparency of shadows.

Adding transparency

You can make objects partly or fully transparent, or even with a

varying degree of transparency (as a gradient).

Using styles

Suppose that you want to apply the same area fill, line thickness, and

border to a set of objects. This repetitive process can be greatly

simplified by the use of styles. Styles allow you to define a formatting

template (a style) and then to apply that style to multiple objects. For

more about styles, see Chapter 3 (Using Styles and Templates) for

more information.

Special effects

With Draw, you can apply many special effects to objects and groups of

objects. This section describes a few of these effects. Others include

distorting, shadows, and transparency. See the

Draw Guide

for

examples of the many effects available.

Flip an object

Select an object and click on the Flip icon . You will

see a dashed line through the middle of the object.

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