Editing Text Files - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - STEP BY STEP GUIDE Manual

Chapter 7. Working with Documents 79
To learn more about OpenOffice.org Impress, click Help => Contents from the file menus.
7.1.5. OpenOffice.org Draw
If you want to create graphics for your documents and presentations, you can use OpenOffice.org
Draw. Using your mouse as a you would a pen or a paintbrush, OpenOffice.org Draw allows you to
make illustrations and save them in several formats that you can add to printed documents, place on
websites, or attach to emails.
To start OpenOffice.org Draw from the desktop panel, click Main Menu => Office => OpenOf-
fice.org Draw. To start OpenOffice.org Draw from a shell prompt, type .
oodraw
Figure 7-7 Shows OpenOffice.org Draw in action.
Figure 7-7. OpenOffice.org Draw
If you are familiar with illustration and graphics applications such as The GIMP (refer to Chapter
10 Working with Images for more information), notice that OpenOffice.org Draw has some of the
same basic functions. There are toolbars for creating straight and curved lines, basic shapes such as
squares and circles, 3D objects such as cones and cubes, and more. You can create images and fill
them with the color of your choice using the Area Style/Filling drop-down menu on the main toolbar.
You can additionally insert text into your illustrations. OpenOffice.org Draw also allows you to open
and import images and modify them with the tools provided.
When you complete your illustration or image modifications, you can save the file in one of several
native file formats or export your work to several popular formats such as or . Refer to
.jpg .png
Table 7-1 for the complete list of compatible image file formats.
For more information on using OpenOffice.org Draw, refer to the documentation located at Help =>
Contents from the file menus.

7.2. Editing Text Files

Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes several text editors, applications that allow you to view and modify
plain text files. Plain text files are files that contain text without any font or style formatting applied to
it, such as system logs and configuration files.