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Shapes

Shapes in the context of the Objects menu include Line objects.

This submenu currently shows three sections. The first section offers two functions which are only selectable for dynamic shapes (and dynamic lines):

Edit Shape Parameters

The dynamic shapes and line shapes offer adjustable parameters, e.g. the number of rays in a star or the number of lines in multiple lines. Use this menu item and open the relevant dialog, which looks a little bit different for each shape.

Convert to Editable Path

Choose this menu item if you want to convert the currently assigned shape into an editable vector path. Then you can edit the shape with the mouse. If the shape was a dynamic shape or line shape before, its dynamic parameters are no longer available.

Using the functions of the two other sections in this menu, you can combine a group of shapes with a single mouse click in different ways. Basically, we differentiate between combinations which combine all objects to one single object, and combinations where all objects are combined to a group.

Sample images illustrate the menu commands. As the starting point in example 1, you see two simple shape frames with different shapes and colors.

Combine

Join

Intersect

Subtract

XOR

Combine and Group

Join and Group

Intersect and Group

Subtract and Group

XOR and Group

Example 2 also uses two simple shape frames plus an image. The shape frame's shape colors have been set transparent and the outline has been activated as clipping path. This gives interesting image masking results.

Combine

Join

Intersect

Subtract

XOR

Combine and Group

Join and Group

Intersect and Group

Subtract and Group

XOR and Group