Summary of object creating methods

Object

Description

Icon

Key

Notes

Text frame

(text box)

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Contains text

F

Can contain local text, or linked. Must have a type (it can be any of available linkable types, e.g. head, body, pull quote etc).

Can be polygonized and rotated. Can be colored and shaded, have a color gradient and drop shadow. Has user-definable border style and weight. Can have custom margins (the same value for all sides). Can be converted to a graphic text frame. Cah

It is displayed with blue borders if empty or contains fitting text, and with red borders, if non-empty non-fitting.

Rounded text frame

Oval text frame

Article layout

A set of shapes to contain text and images

H / + CTRL

See Summary of methods to create an article layout.

Rectangular image box. More...

Image placeholder

I

Can be replaced with a real image.

Oval image box

Image box with rounded corners

Box

Various

shapes

B

Cannot contain text. Can be polygonized and rotated. Can be colored and shaded, have a color gradient and drop shadow. Has user-definable border style and weight.

Oval 1

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Cannot contain text. Cannot be polygonized. Can be rotated. Can be colored and shaded, have a color gradient and drop shadow. Has user-definable border style and weight.

Oval 2

Cannot contain text. Can be polygonized. Can be rotated. Can be colored and shaded, have a color gradient and drop shadow. Has user-definable border style and weight.

Note: these objects must exist in the sysdefault library.

Concave

Rhombus

Box with rounded corners

Triangle 1

Pentagon

Cloud

Balloon

Horizontal and vertical rule

A straight rule

V

Can be shaped to an angled rule. Can be rotated. Can be colored and shaded, have a drop shadow but not a color gradient. Has user-definable style and weight.

Open path

Arrow

An object related

rule

Rule which is drawn related to all selected objects

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ALT+L,R,A,B

ALT+F draws it on the edge, closest to the mouse pointer

The rule is static: if you move or scale selected objects, the rule is not updated.

The properties are the same as for the horizontal/vertical rule

Closed path

Straight connector

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ALT+Ins