IBM Lotus Symphony


Drawing Objects

Choose View - Toolbar - Drawing to open the Drawing floating toolbar, where you can add basic shapes, block arrows, flowcharts, stars and symbols and callouts to the current document.

Create Shape

  1. Choose View - Toolbar - Drawing to open the floating toolbar

  2. Click the toolbar button of the shape you want to create. Click where you want the shape to start and drag to the size you want.

  3. Release the mouse button and the shape will be created.

Select and Unselect Shape

  1. Click the shape line or fill area to select a shape with mark points being displayed.

  2. Click on the outside area of the shape to unselect a shape with mark points disappearing.

Resize Shape

To edit the size of a selected shape, drag the mark point and a dashed contour line will be displayed to preview.

Draw Shadow

  1. Right click a selected shape and choose Area... to open the Area dialog.

  2. Click Shadow tab and check Use shadow checkbox. The shadow effect of the shape will be displayed.

In IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ Presentations and IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, click Shadow button from Context Sensitive toolbar menu.

Insert Text

Double click shape's fill area and input text.

Rotate Shape

  1. Right click a selected shape and choose Position and Size to open the dialog.

  2. Click Rotation tab. Edit a rotation angle and the shape will be rotated.

Slant Shape

  1. Right click a selected shape and choose Position and Size to open properties dialog.

  2. Click Slant & Corner Radius tab. Edit a slant angle and the shape will be slanted.

Disable Corner Radius

Corner Radius will be disabled in shape properties dialog Slant & Corner Radius tab page.

Convert

Only accessible in Lotus Symphony Presentations.

Right click a selected shape to choose Convert. In Convert sub menu, choose To Bitmap to convert a shape to a bitmap object or choose To Metafile to convert a shape to a metafile object.

Note icon If you select drawing objects with other kinds of shapes such as rectangles, the convert menu will list the union of supported conversion. If you group Drawing Objects with other kind of shapes such as rectangles, the convert menu will only list the intersection of supported conversion.


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