Trine Office - Tutorials

1>.  Loading Color, Gradient, and Hatching Lists

        

You can use lists to organize colors, gradients, or hatching patterns. Trine Office provides several lists that you can load and use in your document. If you want, you can add or delete elements from a list, or even create custom lists.

To load a color list:

  1. Choose Format - Area, and then click the Colors tab.

  2. Click the Load Color List button.

  3. Locate the color list that you want to load, and then click Open. A color list file has the format [filename].soc.

To save a color list, click the Save Color List button, enter a filename, and then click Save.

The CMYK list is optimized for print colors. The colors in the Web and the HTML lists are optimized for displays using a resolution of 256 colors. The palettes libreoffice.soc and tango.soc contain the official TrineOffice and Tango colors respectively.

To load a gradient list:

  1. Choose Format - Area, and then click the Gradients tab.

  2. Click the Load Gradients List button.

  3. Locate the gradient list that you want to load, and then click Open. A gradient list file has the format [filename].sog.

To save a gradients list, click the Save Gradients List button, enter a filename, and then click Save.

To load a hatching list:

  1. Choose Format - Area, and then click the Hatching tab.

  2. Click the Load Hatches List button.

  3. Locate the hatches list that you want to load, and then click Open. A hatches list file has the format [filename].soh.

To save a hatches list, click the Save Hatches List button, enter a filename, and then click Save.


2>. Loading Line and Arrow Styles

     

You can use styles to organize similar line and arrow types. Trine Office provides a few standard style files that you can load and use in your document. If you want, you can add or delete elements from a style file, or even create a custom style file.

To load a line styles file:

  1. Choose Format - Line, and then click the Line Styles tab.

  2. Click the Load Line Styles button.

  3. Locate the file containing the line styles that you want to load, and then click OK. The file has the format [filename].sod.

To save a line styles file, click the Save Line Styles button, enter a filename, and then click OK.

To load an arrow styles file:

  1. Choose Format - Line, and then click the Arrow Styles tab.

  2. Click the Load Arrow Styles button.

  3. Locate the file containing the arrow styles that you want to load, and then click OK. The file has the format [filename].soe.

To save an arrow styles file, click the Save Arrow Styles button, enter a filename, and then click OK.

 

3>. Defining Custom Colors

     

Define custom colors and add them to the Custom color palette.

To define a custom color

  1. Choose Format - Area, click the Area tab and press the Color button. A table of the predefined palette colors is displayed.

    Custom colors are saved in the Custom color palette.

  2. Click a color in the table that is similar to the one you want to define. You can select the similar color from any of the available color palettes in the Colors area on the left or the Recent colors in the list below the color table. The color appears in the New preview box to the right of the dialog.

  3. Click the Pick button to open the Pick a Color dialog.

    Trine Office uses only the RGB color model for printing in color. The RGB values of the selected color are displayed below the preview boxes.

  4. Press the Add button to add the custom color to the Custom color palette. A dialog box asking to enter a color name appears. Enter a unique name for the new color within all color names existing in the Custom color palette.

To remove a color from the Custom color palette, select the Custom color palette in the Colors area, select the color to be deleted and click Delete.
 

4>. Creating Gradient Fills

       

A gradient fill is an incremental blend of two different colors, or shades of the same color, that you can apply to a drawing object.

To apply a gradient:

  1. Select a drawing object.

  2. Choose Format - Area and select Gradient as the Fill type.

  3. Select a gradient style from the list and click OK.

Creating Custom Gradients

You can define your own gradients and modify existing gradients, as well as save and load a list of gradient files.

To create a custom gradient:

  1. Choose Format - Area and click the Gradients tab.

  2. Select a gradient from the list to use as the basis for your new gradient and click Add.

  3. Type a name for the gradient in the text box and click OK.

    The name appears at the end of the gradient list and is selected for editing.

  4. Set the gradient properties and click Modify to save the gradient.

  5. Click OK.

Using Gradients and Transparency

You can adjust the properties of a gradient as well as the transparency of a drawing object with your mouse.

To adjust the gradient of a drawing object:

  1. Select a drawing object with the gradient that you want to modify.

  2. Choose Format - Area and click the Gradients tab.

  3. Adjust the values for the gradient to suit your needs and click OK.

To adjust the transparency of an object, select the object, choose Format - Area and click the Transparency tab.
 

5>. Replacing Colors

      

To replace colors with the Color Replacer tool

Ensure that the image you are using is a bitmap (for example, BMP, GIF, JPG, or PNG) or a metafile (for example, WMF).

  1. Choose Tools - Color Replacer.

  2. Click the Color Replacer icon and position the mouse pointer over the color you want to replace in the image. The color appears in the box next to the icon.

  3. Click the color in the image. The color appears in the first Source color box and the check box next to the color is selected.

  4. In the Replace with box, select the new color.

    This replaces all occurrences of the Source color in the image.

  1. If you want to replace another color while the dialog is open, select the check box in front of Source color in the next row and repeat steps 3 to 5.

  2. Click Replace.
     

6>. Adding a Header or a Footer to All Slides

Every slide is based on a master slide. The text, pictures, tables, fields or other objects that you place on the master slide are visible as a background on all slides that are based on that master slide.

Masters exist for slides, notes, and handouts.

  • To edit a master slide, choose View - Master Slide. Click the Close Master View icon on the Master View toolbar, or choose View - Normal, to leave the master slide.

  • To edit a master notes, choose View - Master Notes. Click the Close Master View icon on the Master View toolbar, or choose View - Normal, to leave the master notes.

  • To edit a master handout, click the Handout tab above the slide. Click the Normal tab to leave the master handout.

Adding predefined header or footer objects

Every type of master has some predefined areas to hold the date, footer, and slide numbers.

When you switch to the master view, you can move those areas to any position on the master. Also, you can enter additional text into them, resize them, and select their contents to apply text formatting. For example, you can change the font size or color.

A predefined Header Area is available only for notes and handouts. If you want a header on all slides, you can move the Footer Area on the master slide to the top.

Objects that you insert on a master slide are visible on all slides that are based on that master slide.

  1. Choose Insert - Header and Footer.

    You see a dialog with two tab pages: Slides and Notes and Handouts where you can enter contents to the predefined areas.

     

    Header Footer Dialog

    By default, the Date and Time checkbox is enabled, but the format is set to Fixed and the text input box is empty, so no date and time is visible on the slides.

    By default, the Footer checkbox is enabled, but the text input box is empty, so no footer is visible on the slides.

    By default, the Slide number checkbox is cleared, so no slide numbers are visible.

  2. Enter or select the contents that should be visible on all slides.

  3. If you want to change the position and formatting of the master objects, choose View - Master.

    You see the master slide with areas near the bottom. You can move the areas , and you can select the fields and apply some formatting. You can also enter some text here which will be shown next to the fields.

  4. Click the Date Area and move the time and date field. Select the <date/time> field and apply some formatting to change the format for the date and time on all slides. The same applies to the Footer Area and the Slide Number Area.

  5. Normally the predefined elements of the master slide are set to visible in the presentation. You can control the visibility of the predefined elements by choosing Slide - Master Elements.

     

    Master Layout Dialog

Adding text objects as header or footer objects

You can add a text object anywhere on the master slide.

  1. Choose View - Master Slide.

  2. On the Drawing bar, select the Text icon Icon.

  3. Drag in the master slide to draw a text object, and then type or paste your text.

  4. Choose View - Normal when you are finished.

You can also add fields, such as the date or page number, to a header or footer by choosing Insert - Field.



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