LibreOffice 3 Draw, request

REQUEST:
1. I hope each layer (Layout, Controls, Dimension Lines, etc.) can be
easily exchanged visible/invisible by clicking. Currently, it is time
consuming work to exchange visible/invisible. I think to put a check box
for visible/invisible above each layer name is the best way.
The purposes to exchange a layer visible/invisible by clicking are
a. To check what are put in the layer by visible/invisible,
b. To select a layer from simultaneously made alternative layers (e.g.
English text layer or my country's text layer)
Adobe Photoshop's layer visible/invisible control with a check box is
very efficient.

2. Sometimes I do the same work in a row (e.g. to draw lines, to put
texts, etc.). In this case, I want to do the same work without clicking
each time "line icon", "T icon", "etc.". So, I hope some way to fix a
icon in the toolbar until the left most icon is clicked.

Hi Tatsuo,

Tatsuo Tanaka schrieb:

REQUEST:
1. I hope each layer (Layout, Controls, Dimension Lines, etc.) can be
easily exchanged visible/invisible by clicking. Currently, it is time
consuming work to exchange visible/invisible. I think to put a check box
for visible/invisible above each layer name is the best way.
The purposes to exchange a layer visible/invisible by clicking are
a. To check what are put in the layer by visible/invisible,
b. To select a layer from simultaneously made alternative layers (e.g.
English text layer or my country's text layer)
Adobe Photoshop's layer visible/invisible control with a check box is
very efficient.

It is very easy in LibreOffice. Shift-Click on the tab toggles between
visible and invisible.

2. Sometimes I do the same work in a row (e.g. to draw lines, to put
texts, etc.). In this case, I want to do the same work without clicking
each time "line icon", "T icon", "etc.". So, I hope some way to fix a
icon in the toolbar until the left most icon is clicked.

Set the tool to 'permanent' mode by choosing it with double-click.

Features are already there :slight_smile:

Kind regards
Regina

Hi :slight_smile:
For 2 would it help to just edit an existing menu or create a custom-made one (or few)?
Tools - Customise

For 1 would Gimp be a better tool for this sort of work?  I'm not sure that Draw is really meant to be an alternative to Photoshop.  Gimp handles layers quite well
http://www.gimp.org/

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Hi Tom,

Tom Davies schrieb:

Hi :slight_smile:
For 2 would it help to just edit an existing menu or create a custom-made one (or few)?
Tools - Customise

The question was about making a tool sticky.

For 1 would Gimp be a better tool for this sort of work? I'm not sure that Draw is really meant to be an alternative to Photoshop. Gimp handles layers quite well
http://www.gimp.org/

No, Gimp is for raster graphics, Draw is for vector graphics.

Kind regards
Regina

Hi Tom,

Tom Davies schrieb:

Hi :slight_smile: For 2 would it help to just edit an existing menu or create
a custom-made one (or few)? Tools - Customise

The question was about making a tool sticky.

For 1 would Gimp be a better tool for this sort of work? I'm not
sure that Draw is really meant to be an alternative to Photoshop.
Gimp handles layers quite well http://www.gimp.org/

No, Gimp is for raster graphics, Draw is for vector graphics.

I don't have Draw in my linux repo but Inkscape open source equivalent
to Illustrator.

mark

oops,
i've been up to my eyebrows with graphic design using photoshop/gimp or
illustrator/inkscape that the simple and obvious slipped right by me.

Hi :slight_smile:
Lol, don't worry.  I hardly ever think of Draw as being part of an Office Suite but it is quite handy :slight_smile:

Regina i know that Gimp can't handle some of what Draw does but it does have nice features such as the one the op was asking for. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: