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Adding shapes - iBooks Author Tutorial
From the course: iBooks Author Essential Training
Adding shapes
- Now let's look at some ways to add shapes to our document. The most simple way is to simply come up to your toolbar, select the Shapes tool, and then select one of the pre-defined shapes. Let's go ahead and select the rectangle shape. When you do, a rectangle appears on screen. Now, since this is simply an object, we can grab the object and move it, we can grab one of the corner handles of the object and drag it down in order to stretch the shape down larger, or we can drag it to the right to make the shape wider. If you hold down the shift key on your keyboard while you drag, you get a uniformly scaled shape. Let's go ahead and move this shape over to the side and let's add another shape. Only, this time, we'll go up to the Insert menu and go down to Shape, and here we have a listing of all of the same types of shapes that we can add. This time, go ahead and select the Rounded Rectangle. The rounded rectangle works exactly like the regular rectangle, where we can re-size it, we can…
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