1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsdrawguidecross_fadingxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Cross-Fading Two Objects</title> 35<filename>/text/sdraw/guide/cross_fading.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-08-17T14:23:34">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150715"><bookmark_value>draw objects; cross-fading two objects</bookmark_value> 44<bookmark_value>cross-fading; two draw objects</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150715" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="17"><variable id="cross_fading"><link href="text/sdraw/guide/cross_fading.xhp" name="Cross-Fading Two Objects">Cross-Fading Two Objects</link> 47</variable></paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154754" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">Cross-fading creates shapes and distributes them by uniform increments between two drawing objects.</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3155112" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="41">The cross-fading command is only available in $[officename] Draw. You can, however, copy and paste cross-faded objects into $[officename] Impress.</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149209" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="20">To cross-fade two objects:</paragraph> 51<list type="ordered"> 52<listitem> 53<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150370" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="45">Hold down Shift and click each object.</paragraph> 54</listitem> 55<listitem> 56<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3166428" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">Choose <emph>Edit - Cross-fading</emph>.</paragraph> 57</listitem> 58<listitem> 59<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3156450" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="44">Enter a value to specify the number of objects between the start and end of the cross-fade in the <emph>Increments</emph> box.</paragraph> 60</listitem> 61<listitem> 62<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149405" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph> 63</listitem> 64</list> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151240" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">A group containing the two original objects and the specified number (increments) of cross-faded objects is displayed.</paragraph> 66<table id="tbl_id3156016"> 67<tablerow> 68<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159203" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E"> 70<image id="img_id3150210" src="res/helpimg/ueberblenden.png" width="74.88mm" height="65.62mm"><alt id="alt_id3150210" xml-lang="en-US">Illustration for crossfading</alt> 71 </image></paragraph> 72</tablecell> 73<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 74<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154766" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">You can edit the individual objects of a group by selecting the group and pressing F3. Press <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline>+F3 to exit the group editing mode.</paragraph> 75</tablecell> 76</tablerow> 77</table> 78<section id="relatedtopics"> 79<embed href="text/sdraw/guide/duplicate_object.xhp#duplicate_object"/> 80<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155760" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="42"><link href="text/simpress/01/02150000.xhp" name="Editing - Cross-fading">Editing - Cross-fading</link></paragraph> 81</section></body> 82</helpdocument> 83
