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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.
Select figures
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.
Move figures
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.
Rescale figures
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.
Put a figure in front, behind,
... an other figure
 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.
Rotate figures

This mini-toolbar allow to rotate figures:
- The button without arrow allows to rotate a or several figures with the mouse; to do that, you just have to drag
one of the delimitors (by clicking of this button all the delimitors become green). To come back to the normal mode, you
must click again on this button (the delimitors will take their original colour);
- The buttons with an arrow allow to rotate immediately a or several figures or 90, 180 and 270°.
Join/separate several selected
figures
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 .
Change the dimensions of
the drawing
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 :
The mirrors
There is two mirrors: vertical an horizontal. It works with an axial symmetry by using the gravity center of the selected figure
or of the group of selected figures.
For the moment, when a picture, a grid or axes are transformed with this feature, their coordinates are moved but
the shape is not realy changed; in a future release, an option will allow the user to do that (there is the same problem
for gradient: when you apply a mirror, the gradient is not changed).
The magnetic grids
This feature is very usefull when you want to place figures.
To have a magnetic grid, selected the checkbox; but to display the grid you have to select it in the menu
"Display"->"Grid"->"Standard grid" or "Personal grid".
- The standard grid: this grid is define in centimeter or in inch (you can choose it);
- The personal grid: this grid allows you to define the interval between the lines of the grid; to
do that, you can use to field near the "Magnetic checkbox" checkbox. This field is enable only when the
personal grid is displayed.
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