Class Schedule
21 Aug | intro
23 Aug | clients
28 Aug | servers
30 Aug | networks
04 Sep | basics lab
06 Sep | structural layer
11 Sep | presentational layer
18 Sep | working with layers
20 Sep | behavior layer
25 Sep | images & design
27 Sep | website lab
02 Oct | object layers
02 Oct | graphics |
tools that read markup |
practice exercises |
next session
09 Oct | document markup lab
11 Oct | spreadsheets, formulas & functions
16 Oct | data display
18 Oct | Fall Break
23 Oct | database tools
25 Oct | spreadsheets lab
30 Oct | relational databases
01 Nov | tables
06 Nov | relationships
08 Nov | input & output
13 Nov | SQL
15 Nov | complex queries
20 Nov | databases lab
22 Nov | Thanksgiving
27 Nov | presentation design
29 Nov | presentation delivery
04 Dec | presentation lab
13 Dec | 0800-1100 | final in class presentation
This work
is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
home & schedule | class blog | syllabus | contact | grades
Graphics can add a lot to a document,
but one needs to understand the tools in order to control them effectively.
This will mostly be a demonstration and practice session. We will use Two Years Before The Mast by Richard Henry Dana, to look at the use of some of the built-in tools.
The toolbar appears when you select an image to work with.
One can alter the look of images inserted into the document using the various toolbar components.
But the wrapping tool is one of the most important in determining how the picture object relates to the text objects in which it is embedded.
We can add individual objects directly into the document
but if we need to group more than one object into a new single object, we need to first insert a Drawing Canvas
When you use the Group tool to group objects, you combine them so you can work with them as though they were a single object. You can flip, rotate, and resize or scale all objects in a group as a single unit. You can also change the attributes (attribute: An object or text feature, such as line fill or text color, that you can manipulate by using drawing tools and menu commands.) of all objects in a group at one time
For example, you might change the fill color or add a shadow to all objects in the group or you can select an item within a group and apply an attribute, without ungrouping
You can also create groups within groups to help you build complex drawings.
You can ungroup a group of objects at any time and then regroup them later.
When you use the Order tools, you determine where in the stack a particular object lies. You can move an object back and forth in the stack, or to the front or to the back.
If you have multiple objects in a page, this tool allows you to show or mask as much or as little of an object as you wish.
If you use objects other than text (images are one, but there are others) and text together in your documents, it can be helpful to use the text wrapping function.
There is a lot of white space around and between the art and text. The images are inserted in the document in line with text, and thus are behaving as if they were text objects. But is this how you want your object to relate to its surrounding text?
Select the object you want to wrap text around. On the Picture toolbar, click the Text Wrapping button. Click the Square (in this case) button. Click and drag your clip to where you want it in your document. The text will wrap itself around the object.
Your object and text now complement each other well.