Galleries Overview

The program includes a set of Galleries for manipulating items you use as you create your documents. Some list items in your documents and some list items on disk. All the Galleries support drag-and-drop and are often a quick and easy way to use the program. For more information on any of the galleries, click on the gallery name below.

Some of the galleries list items that are in documents:

Color Gallery

Layer Gallery (see note)

Frame Gallery (see note)

Note: depending on the type of document either the Layer Gallery or Frame Gallery button is dimmed. See Drawing and Animated documents for more details.

Bitmap Gallery

Line Gallery

Name Gallery

Some galleries list items stored on disk or on the Internet that you can use in a document if you want.

Fill Gallery

Clipart Gallery

The Font Gallery shows fonts which are installed on your computer as well as the fonts you can install.

Font Gallery

The galleries have many common features. The title bar allows you to position the gallery on the screen. You can resize any gallery using the window border in the normal way. The close button closes the gallery completely. When you want to reopen a gallery use the appropriate button on the control bar or a keyboard shortcut.

All galleries have a row of buttons under the title bar for working on selected items in the gallery and for setting gallery options. Note that you can make the buttons at the top of the galleries large or small using the Control Bars dialog box (select Control Bars from the Window menu).

The main display area of all galleries is scrollable and contains one or more sections. Each section is shown by a gray "section bar" with a folder icon in it and the name of the section written in white. Sections can be folded so that only the section bar is showing or unfolded to see all the items within them. To fold or unfold a section double-click on its gray section bar or click on the folder icon.

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