1*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 3*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 4*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<!--*********************************************************** 5*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 6*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * distributed with this work for additional information 9*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * with the License. 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Once you convert text into a drawing object, you can no longer edit the content of the text.</paragraph> 49*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153965" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="22">To convert text into a drawing object:</paragraph> 50*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<list type="ordered"> 51*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 52*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146963" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Select the text that you want to convert, and do one of the following:</paragraph> 53*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149053" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">In $[officename] Draw, choose <emph>Modify - Convert - To Curve</emph>.</paragraph> 54*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150395" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="23">In $[officename] Impress, right-click the border of the text object, and then choose <emph>Convert - To Curve</emph>.</paragraph> 55*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 56*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 57*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150746" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">If your text contains more than one character, the converted text becomes a grouped object. Double-click the group to edit individual objects. Press Esc when finished.</paragraph> 58*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 59*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 60*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150336" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="7">Now, click the <emph>Points</emph> icon on the <emph>Drawing</emph> bar. Click the object. You can see all the Bézier points of the object. On the <emph>Edit Points</emph> bar, you can find various icons for editing, inserting and deleting points.</paragraph> 61*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 62*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</list> 63*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<section id="relatedtopics"> 64*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/simpress/guide/line_draw.xhp#line_draw"/> 65*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/simpress/guide/line_edit.xhp#line_edit"/> 66*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/simpress/guide/vectorize.xhp#vectorize"/> 67*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/simpress/guide/3d_create.xhp#3d_create"/> 68*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/shared/guide/fontwork.xhp#fontwork"/> 69*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</section> 70*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</body> 71*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</helpdocument> 72