This drawing system duplicates some of the tools already available in, but offers greater accuracy, especially for drawing ellipses and arcs, as well as general manipulation of objects. diameters, lengths, or Once the objects are draw, you have the option of using the Cut, Extend, or Join tools to edit them using Draw's anchor points. The CADOO.o menu begins with a number of tools for drawing polygons, squares, circles, rectangles, ellipses, and arcs around one or more points, or by specifying the radiuses. Once you are familiar with its features, you may prefer the icons on its floating window to the menu. It adds an extensive top-level menu, as well as an additional tool bar above the drawing one at the bottom of the editing window when a menu item is chosen.
It's a mildly handy feature, if only the interface were improved, but I would suggest you use it with a browser open, and turn it off when not using it.ĬADOO.o is a Python add-on designed to give Draw some basic CAD features. When a list of available offerings displays, you can select one and copy it directly to your desktop clipboard. Selecting Clkr Gallery - the only item in the menu - opens a dialog in which you enter your email and the formats that you would like listed: Draw's. However, if you get beyond these annoyances, the extension is simple enough to use. On my Fedora installation, it gives an annoying message about "Error setting look and feel" when I first open a new Draw file, and when I first open the top-level menu it adds (which is labelled Clkr Menu, as though the developers figured you couldn't figure out what a block of text on the menu bar would be). Throughout, the extension is a little fidgety, in the same way that World War 2 was mildly unpleasant. To use the site's Java-based extension, you will need to create a free account first. It is not as large as the better-known Open Clip Art Library, nor as careful about explaining licensing, although all its content appears to be in public domain.
Many of the extensions are written in Java, although a free implementation like IcedTea or GCJ is usually all that is necessary, rather than a copy of Sun's Java.Ĭlkr.com is a site for royalty free clip art. Usually, the easiest way to install them is by selecting My Extensions, and readying them for the current account only. Like most extensions, those for Draw are installed via Tools -> Extension Manager. It may also explain why some of the few that are available are limited in functionality and awkward to use, and almost all seem to still be in heavy development. Probably, that explains why the Extensions page has only a handful of Draw extensions. Either users seem to expect it to be equivalent to the GIMP or Visio, or they fail to see its desktop publishing possibilities - but in all cases they are disappointed. Draw is probably the most under-estimated of the applications.
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