The
Components Bar by default is located on the left side of the Work
Window, and the buttons appear in Large Size. (You may change these
settings, if you wish. See Toolbar
Options Dialog Box and Toolbar
Options Dialog Box for more information.)
Use
the buttons in the Components Bar to create and edit objects and
their components, such as geometry and shading. You may also edit page
properties.
Controls
on the Components Bar include the following:
Control
Description
Object
Edit– Click to
perform advanced moving, stretching, rotation, skew, and origin placement
operations. The Object Edit button provides full interactive editing of
objects but is less convenient than the Page Layout button for simple
object placement and scaling. For more information, see Transform Object.
Page Layout
– Click to move and scale a selected object in the Work Window using your
mouse. For more information, see Move
Object.
Edit Vertices
– With an object selected, click to perform vertex editing. For more information,
see Vertex
Editor Dialog Box.
Lock Object
– Click to lock or unlock a selected object's transformation matrix. For
more information, see Lock/Unlock
Object.
Rectangle
– Click to create a new rectangle object. For more information, see Rectangle
Objects.
Ellipse –
Click to create a new ellipse object. For more information, see Ellipse Objects.
Polygon
– Click to create a new polygon object. For more information, see Polygon Objects
.
Curve –
Click to create a new curve object. For more information, see Curve Objects.
Title –
Click to open the Title
Editor dialog box to create a title as an object on the current page.
For more information, see Title
Objects.
Picture –
Click to display the Open
dialog box to browse for image files to insert as an object onto the current
page. For more information, see Image
Objects.
Code Text –
Click to open the Text
Editor dialog box in Code Edit Mode to create or load code as an object
onto the current page. For more information, see Code Objects.
Formatted Text
– Click to open the Text
Editor dialog box in Text Edit Mode to create text as an object onto
the current page. For more information, see Text Objects.
Import Foreign
Object – Click to open the Foreign
Object/Media dialog box to insert files, plug-ins, Java applets, HTML
IFrames, SVG files, Macromedia® Flash® files, or other multimedia files
as an object onto the current page. For more information, see Foreign Objects.
Table –
Click to create a new table object. For more information, see Table Objects.
Page Editor
– Click to open the Page Editor dialog box to modify page properties.
For more information, see Page
Editor Dialog Box.
Quick
Properties Editor – With an object selected, click to open the Quick Properties
Editor dialog box associated with the selected object. Or, with no
object selected, click to open the Quick
Properties Editor dialog box to select any object in the project to
edit. For more information, see Quick Properties
Editor Dialog Box .
