You will have to go to 1.9.xxx to get true block arrows and triangles
'on demand'.
A big improvement on 1.1.x, and worth looking at even now.
the site links were OK for me .
You can get simple 'block like' arrows in 1.1.4 by creating a line with
an arrow head,
and choosing a big line width - say 1.00cm.
If you have to stick with 1.1.4, and have manage to draw a triangle or two,
then store them in a file just used for that purpose.
Dave Legge
David Rudel wrote:
I am using version 1.1.4 [the link to the beta 1.9 was not working
when I tried to download it a couple days ago]
I searched the knowledge base and found nothing about block arrows.
There was a note about making triangles in Draw, but it was the
obvious point that making a triangle simply means you make a 3-sided
polygon.
Let me be more clear:
I would like a one-click solution that simply creates a triangle on
the page, which I can then move or resize to my needs. I would rather
not have to draw a new one every time. I guess the answer is just to
record a macro, but I thought that there might be a tool for making
premade triangles [since Powerpoint has one].
A "block arrow" is an arrow with a thick "middle" that is "open." So
it is like someone took a "normal" arrow, thickened the line in the
middle, and then someone else traced around it so that the inside was
white. When I was tinkering around with the object menu, I could
thicken the line, but I could not make the inside invisible.
I suppose I could create one arrow with very thick lines, and then
create another, slightly smaller, arrow with white fill on top of
that, but I was hoping there was a simpler solution.
Block arrows are available in powerpoint in the shapes menu, they have
their own category.
Thanks for the help and the quick response. [there is an email with
the subject "block arrows" in the archive of this mailing list, but I
cannot get to it]
On 7/25/05, Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 24 July 2005 10:19 pm, David Rudel wrote:
I know there have been messages dealing with this, but I have been
trying for over a day to get into the archives, and I get error 134
from the servlet :(
I would appreciate it if someone could illuminate to me how I can
make triangles in impress and how I can make block arrows.
I have tried fiddling with the lines and doing other stuff for arrows
and I am completely at a loss.
Thanks!
David
Please be more specific. Do you have specific type of triangles
that you want? What is a block arrow? What version of OOo are you
using? How have you tried to use the Draw functions in Impress? Do you
know how to use F4 to make adjustments to a line segment both in terms
of where it is located as well as its angle?
Dan
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