Using graphics

WordPerfect® 10 lets you insert graphics, such as shapes, drawings, and clipart images, into documents. You can size, move, and modify graphics to suit your needs.

Creating graphics

You can create shapes in a WordPerfect document. A shape is any object created using WordPerfect drawing tools.

You can create basic shapes, such as triangles, circles, or rectangles as well as lines, arrows, stars and more. You can also create polylines.

WordPerfect lets you save a graphic as a separate files which you can insert into other documents. For information about exporting files, see "Import and export file formats for WordPerfect 10."

You can delete graphics from a document. WordPerfect also allows you to hide or display graphics.

You can also apply graphic effects to text using TextArt®. For information about TextArt, see Using TextArt in the WordPerfect online Help. You can also create graphical representations of equations using the Equation Editor. For information about the Equation Editor, see "Using Equation Editor in the WordPerfect online Help."

Inserting graphics

You can insert clipart images into a WordPerfect document. You can use the clipart images included with WordPerfect. Clipart images are images that can be brought into a WordPerfect document and edited or used as is.

You can insert pictures from the WordPerfect Office 2002 CD. When you insert a picture from a CD, you have the choice of linking the picture to its source or embedding it into a document. For more information about linking and embedding images, see "Linking and embedding video."

You can link to an image on disk. When you link to an image on disk, the location of the image, not the image itself is inserted into the document. This way, you can considerably reduce the size of the file, especially if the image is used in several places throughout the document.

Inserting Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) objects into a document lets Windows applications exchange information with each other. You can link or embed a picture that was created in another program in a WordPerfect document. If you link the picture, the same information exists in two files: the application where the picture was created (the source application) and the application where it was copied (the client application). When you change the information in the source application, the information is updated in the client application as well. When you embed a picture, the picture becomes part of the document. You can edit the picture directly. For more information about Object Linking and Embedding, see "Linking and embedding objects."

You can adjust the properties of your scanner. You can scan an image, such as a picture or drawing, directly into WordPerfect as a bitmapped image.

Working in the draw picture window

WordPerfect lets you create complex drawings. For more information about creating a drawing, refer to the Corel® Presentations™ online Help. You can open the draw picture window and modify these drawings.

Manipulating graphics

WordPerfect 10 lets you manipulate a graphic in several ways. You can size a graphic, and you can also stretch a graphic. Sizing a graphic makes it larger or smaller while keeping its original proportions intact. Stretching a graphic extends it horizontally or vertically. You can also move a graphic.

Graphics can be cut, copied, and pasted within a document or into other documents. For information about cutting, copying, and pasting graphics, see "Cutting, copying, and pasting text and graphics."

Modifying shapes

In WordPerfect, you can modify a shape in several ways. For example, you can add drop shadows, and change the color of lines, shadows, and fills for shapes.

You can skew a shape, which means to distort it or make it not symmetrical. Some shapes can be altered using glyphs. An ellipse can be altered using the mode toggle. Lines and polylines can also be modified.

Changing the appearance of images

WordPerfect 10 includes tools that let you change the way an image looks. You can enlarge or reduce an image. You can crop an image. You can adjust the color attributes for an image and you can change the fill for an image. You can also reset an image to its original appearance.

Arranging graphics

When two or more graphics overlap in a document, you can arrange their order by moving their graphics boxes in front of or behind the other boxes in the stack. You can also move graphics behind text (like a watermark) or in front of text (like a sticky note). You can also select a graphic that is over or under another graphic. You can group graphics so that they remain together when they are moved, sized, and edited.