Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0
A prerequisite for performing operations on objects is the
selection of individual objects or groups of objects. The
display area must be in the object selection mode to create new
selections, as indicated by an arrow cursor. The object
selection mode is selected by the
A single object can be selected simply by clicking on the desired object in the display area. Once selected the object will be highlighted with a set of resizing handles.
Multiple objects can be selected by first selecting the first
object as above and then by holding the
Multiple objects can also be selected by clicking an empty
area and dragging to form a rectangular area. When released,
all objects contained in the area will form an aggregate
selection. An area selection can be used to add to an existing
selection by holding the
Individual objects can be removed from an existing
selection by holding the
Object selections can be manipulated using the standard clipboard
operations
Moves selected objects to the clipboard. The objects are then available for pasting back into the current document or another document.
Copies selected objects to the clipboard without deleting them. The objects are then available for pasting back into the current document or another document.
Pastes objects from the clipboard into the current document.
Deletes selected objects without placing them on the clipboard.