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Selected can be sheared either
by clicking on the shear button or by selecting
Transform->Shear... (Ctrl-H). This will open up a dialog box
in which you can specify the shear factors. The shearing
transformation is given by:
Notes:
To illustrate this, in Figure 8.12(a) there are three objects selected. The selection is then sheared with shear factors sx=1 and sy=0. The result is shown in Figure 8.12(b).
In Figure 8.13, the three objects in Figure 8.12 were first grouped (Figure 8.13(a)) and then sheared with shear factors sx=1 and sy=0 (Figure 8.13(b)).
In Figure 8.14, the path and text area in Figure 8.14(a) are combined into a text-path, shown in Figure 8.14(b). This text-path is then sheared with shear factors sx=1 and sy=0 Figure 8.14(c). Note that this is different from first shearing the original path and text area, shown in Figure 8.14(d), and then combining them to form a text-path, shown in Figure 8.14(e).
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If you prefer to shear an using the mouse, you first need to enable the hotspots. Then drag the top right hotspot to shear vertically or the top left hotspot to shear horizontally. Note that even if you have more than one object selected, only the object whose hotspot you are dragging will be transformed.
See also:
![]() | Grouping and Ungrouping Objects
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