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Peter Schofield psaut...@libreoffice.org On 13 Oct 2013, at 00:18, "Regina Henschel [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]" <ml-node+s969070n4077814...@n3.nabble.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I belong to the authors of this part in the German version > www.openoffice.org/de/doc/oooauthors/ooo-draw-handbuch.pdf > > I now see, that all my efforts to distinguish between the so called > "custom shapes" and the classical (from OOo1) primitive shapes are lost > and that there is a large confusion in the descriptions and figures. > > Only "custom shapes" can use "Extrusion on/off". The objects of the > Fontwork gallery are "custom shapes" too. Custom shapes remain custom > shapes even when extruded to 3D. This kind of extrusion is a special > state of a custom shapes. Therefore you can turn extrusion on and off. > > Only classical primitive shapes can be turned into true 3D Scenes. Such > a 3D Scene and the 3D objects in it are different kind of objects. There > is no way back to the generating 2D shape. > > Extruded custom shapes and true 3D objects have different tools and are > stored different in file format. It is no good idea to mix them up in > the guide. > > The icon has the label "Extrusion on/off" but the icon "To 3D" does also > "extrude". Therefore the word "extrusion" is not suitable to distinguish > between them. > > Do you understand German, so that you can read the German "Draw-Handbuch"? > > Kind regards > Regina > > > PeeWee schrieb: > > > Version 4.1 of the Draw Guide Chapter 7 Working with 3D Objects is now in > > the > > Drafts LO4.1 folder on the ODF Authors website ready for review and > > comments. > > > > http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/draw-guide/draft-lo4.1/dg-ch-07-working-with-3d-objects/view > > > > Regards > > > > PeterS > > > > > > > > ----- > > Peter Schofield > > [hidden email] > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Version-4-1-Draw-Guide-tp4068532p4077765.html > > Sent from the Documentation mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [hidden email] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Version-4-1-Draw-Guide-tp4068532p4077814.html > To start a new topic under Documentation, email > ml-node+s969070n1645240...@n3.nabble.com > To unsubscribe from Documentation, click here. > NAML ----- Peter Schofield psaut...@libreoffice.org -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Version-4-1-Draw-Guide-tp4068532p4077834.html Sent from the Documentation mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted