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Selecting and Editing Objects

In order to edit an , you must be in select mode. To do this either click on the select button or use the menu item Tools->Select (Ctrl-P). An object can be selected using any of the following methods:

When an is selected, a dashed red/grey rectangle will be displayed around it. (This rectangle may optionally have hotspot regions.) Note that individual elements of a can not be selected independently of the group. When you select a group, you will only see a dashed red/grey rectangle around the of the group, not around the individual elements of the group.

To deselect an individual object, click on that object whilst depressing the shift key. To deselect all objects, click on an empty part of the , or use Edit->Deselect All (Ctrl+Shift-A). Selecting another tool will also deselect all objects.

In select mode, you can also use the select . (This is usually done with a right mouse click, but depends on your system. The function key F3 has the same effect.) The contents of this menu vary according to what types of objects have been selected, if any (see Figure 8.1).

Figure 8.1: Popup menus in select mode depend on what objects have been selected: (a) no objects selected; (b) only text-paths have been selected; (c) only paths have been selected; (d) only text areas have been selected; (e) only bitmaps have been selected; (f) groups or a selection of different object types have been selected.
 Image selectPopupNone.png
(a)
Image selectPopupTextPath.png
Image selectPopupPath.png Image selectPopupText.png Image selectPopupBitmap.png Image selectPopupOther.png  
 (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)  



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