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Working with basic graphics

Working with basic graphics

- The tools for drawing graphic shapes are very sophisticated indeed. Here's an example. They're chosen from this icon near the bottom of the toolbar. Let's pick the Rounded Rectangle tool. We sketch out a rectangle, and here we can change the fill color, just as we would any other object. And we could add a stroke to it. We can change both the color of the stroke and the width of the stroke. If we select the shape with the Move tool, then we find that as we change the shape, we don't lose the roundness of these corners. Normally, you'd expect them to get compressed but it recognizes the roundness that we want to keep. And that's maintained no matter what aspect ratio we use for this shape. If we go back and click on the Tools icon, we can now grab that handle and change all of these corners. If we want to change them individually, uncheck the Single Radius button, and now we can change each one to a different value if we like. You can also set the radius of each corner by its…

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