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The user can select and draw the basic graphic objects such as lines, rectangles, circles, and arcs, on the canvas. Features are listed in the following table.

Item

Icon

ItemDescriptionDescription

Line

Line

Used to draw lines.

Rectangle

Rectangle

Used to draw rectangles or squares.

Ellipse

Ellipse

Used to draw circles or ellipses.

Pie

Pie

Used to draw pies.

Arc

Arc

Used to draw arcs.

Chord

Chord

Used to draw chords.

Polygon

Polygon

Used to draw polygons. Number of sides, width, and height can be determined when you left-click on the canvas.

Polyline

Polyline

Used to draw complex objects. Vertices are added whenever you click a blank space on the graphic page. To exit drawing mode, double left-click the blank space of the graphic page at which point the object will cease drawing, but what has been drawn so far will remain. Additionally, if you press Esc while drawing, this will exit drawing mode and delete what was drawn.

Text

Text

Used to enter text. The text in the box is edited via Text field in the Property Editor feature.

Image

Image

Used to import images into Canvas. Accepted file formats are png, jpg, jpeg, bmp, svg, and gif.

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