1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsdrawguiderotate_objectxml" indexer="include"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Rotating Objects</title> 28<filename>/text/sdraw/guide/rotate_object.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154684"> 33<bookmark_value>rotating; draw objects</bookmark_value> 34<bookmark_value>draw objects; rotating</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>pivot points of draw objects</bookmark_value> 36<bookmark_value>skewing draw objects</bookmark_value> 37</bookmark> 38<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154684" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="12"><variable id="rotate_object"><link href="text/sdraw/guide/rotate_object.xhp" name="Rotating Objects">Rotating Objects</link> 39</variable></paragraph> 40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149262" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">You can rotate an object around its default pivot point (center point) or a pivot point that you designate.</paragraph> 41<table id="tbl_id3148575"> 42<tablerow> 43<tablecell> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146975" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E"> 45<image id="img_id3154729" src="res/commandimagelist/sc_toggleobjectrotatemode.png" width="0.564cm" height="0.564cm"><alt id="alt_id3154729" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 46</image></paragraph> 47</tablecell> 48<tablecell> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150716" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="14">Select the object you want to rotate. On the <emph>Mode</emph> toolbar in $[officename] Draw or on the <emph>Drawing</emph> bar in $[officename] Impress, click the <emph>Rotate</emph> icon.</paragraph> 50</tablecell> 51</tablerow> 52</table> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149021" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="69">Move the pointer to a corner handle so that the pointer changes to a rotate symbol. Drag the handle to rotate the object.</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0930200803002335" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Hold down the Shift key to restrict the rotation to multiples of 15 degrees.</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0930200803002463" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Right-click the object to open the context menu. Choose Position and Size - Rotation to enter an exact rotation value.</paragraph> 56<table id="tbl_id3149126"> 57<tablerow> 58<tablecell> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155962" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E"> 60<image id="img_id3154023" src="res/helpimg/rotate.png" width="5.424cm" height="3.916cm"><alt id="alt_id3154023" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 61</image></paragraph> 62</tablecell> 63</tablerow> 64</table> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3166424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">To change the pivot point, drag the small circle in the center of the object to a new location.</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159236" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">To skew the object vertically or horizontally, drag one of the side handles.</paragraph> 67<section id="relatedtopics"> 68<embed href="text/simpress/guide/select_object.xhp#select_object"/> 69</section> 70</body> 71</helpdocument> 72