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10 Jan | intro
15 Jan | clients
17 Jan | servers
22 Jan | networks
24 Jan | basics lab
29 Jan | structural layer
31 Jan | presentational layer
05 Feb | working with layers
07 Feb | behavior layer |
12 Feb | images & design
14 Feb | website lab
19 Feb | document markup
21 Feb |
graphics |
tools that read markup |
practice exercises |
next session
26 Feb | document markup lab
28 Feb | spreadsheets
05 Mar | formulas & functions
07 Mar | data display
19 Mar | database tools
21 Mar | spreadsheets lab
26 Mar | relational databases
28 Mar | tables
02 Apr | relationships
04 Apr | input & output
09 Apr | SQL
11 Apr | complex queries
16 Apr | databases lab
18 Apr | presentation design
23 Apr | presentation delivery
25 Apr | presentation lab
30 Apr | 0800-1100 | final in class presentation
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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.