Line Caps

Daffy · Guest

When drawing a line (or curve), how do you determine what kind of end caps it has? Or are you stuck with squared off ends? I'd like to make a line with rounded ends. Can I do that?

George Politis · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:24 pm Post subject:

I can't seem to find a way to do it.

I know it's tedious, but if it's only a few lines you need rounded, you can create a pair of circles of the same diameter as the line, place one over the end of each line, and group the three together.

anvilsoup · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 7:17 pm Post subject:

Wow, I always though OOoDraw had linecaps. O well. I guess you could use SodiPodi instead.

JohnV · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 3:33 pm Post subject:

Try right clicking a selected line then choose Line - Line tab. In the Arrow Style section choose your style from the drop downs including a circle.

anvilsoup · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject:

Arrow styles versus line caps...
If you make the lines really thick, you'll notice OOoDraw always rounds off corners. But in professional dedicated drawing packages, you can pick the corners to make them square or even using different nib shapes.
Anyway, if arrowstyles is what you wanted, then JohnV is right on the mark.

George Politis · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject:

DannyB · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:49 am Post subject:

At some level it may be possible to have line caps.

The API has some interesting properties of shapes.

The LineProperties of a shape
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/drawing/LineProperties.html#LineJoint
mention a LineJoint property, which can be any of....
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/drawing/LineJoint.html

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MIDDLE
BEVEL
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