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Understanding shapes - iBooks Author Tutorial
From the course: iBooks Author Essential Training
Understanding shapes
- iBooks Author has some basic drawing tools that allow us to create shapes and add them to our documents. Now shapes can take one of two forms. They can either be open shapes or closed shapes. Open shapes are simply lines. They can be straight or curved, simple or complex, but all open shapes have two ends of their lines. These endpoints can be simple ends or they can be decorated with items like arrows, boxes, or circles. The line portion of a shape is called the stroke. Now you can control the stroke of a shape over here in the Graphics Inspector. By selecting a line, you can control the style of the line, the color of the line, the thickness, and both of the endpoints, both the left hand endpoint and the right hand endpoint. Closed shapes, on the other hand, are simply lines that have no beginning and no end, and thus form a completely closed shape, such as a rectangle, a circle, a star, or a more complex shape. With a closed shape, the stroke is the line that forms the outside…
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