1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsimpressguidetext2curvexml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Converting Text Characters into Drawing Objects</title> 28<filename>/text/simpress/guide/text2curve.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30<comment>Changed table to numbering list, resized image</comment> 31</meta> 32<body> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150717"> 34<bookmark_value>text; converting to curves</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>characters; converting to curves</bookmark_value> 36<bookmark_value>sign conversion to curves</bookmark_value> 37<bookmark_value>converting; text to curves</bookmark_value> 38<bookmark_value>draw objects;converting text to</bookmark_value> 39<bookmark_value>curves;converting text to</bookmark_value> 40</bookmark> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150717" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><variable id="text2curve"><link href="text/simpress/guide/text2curve.xhp" name="Converting Text Characters into Drawing Objects">Converting Text Characters into Drawing Objects</link> 42</variable></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155960" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">You can convert text characters into curves that you can edit and resize as you would any drawing object. Once you convert text into a drawing object, you can no longer edit the content of the text.</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153965" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U">To convert text into a drawing object:</paragraph> 45<list type="ordered"> 46<listitem> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146963" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Select the text that you want to convert, and do one of the following:</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149053" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">In $[officename] Draw, choose <emph>Modify - Convert - To Curve</emph>.</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150395" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">In $[officename] Impress, right-click the border of the text object, and then choose <emph>Convert - To Curve</emph>.</paragraph> 50</listitem> 51<listitem> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150746" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 53</listitem> 54<listitem> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150336" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">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> 56</listitem> 57</list> 58<section id="relatedtopics"> 59<embed href="text/simpress/guide/line_draw.xhp#line_draw"/> 60<embed href="text/simpress/guide/line_edit.xhp#line_edit"/> 61<embed href="text/simpress/guide/vectorize.xhp#vectorize"/> 62<embed href="text/simpress/guide/3d_create.xhp#3d_create"/> 63<embed href="text/shared/guide/fontwork.xhp#fontwork"/> 64</section> 65</body> 66</helpdocument> 67