Brother International PDP350CJ Owner's Manual - English - Page 256

Working with Bitmap Objects In Drawing, you can use three types of objects to compose a drawing: text objects, graphic objects, and bitmap objects. S A text object is an object you create using the Text tool on the Attributes tool bar. S A graphic object is any line, rectangle, ellipse, arc, star, or other object you create using any of the other tools (besides text) on the Attributes tool bar or the Create option on the Edit menu. S A bitmap object is any object you create using any of the tools on the Bitmap tool bar. A bitmap is an object made up of pixels, which are individual dots that make up an image, like the dots on a television screen. Bitmaps give you the ability to create freehand images. Because bitmaps have special properties, Drawing provides a set of tools you can use to manipulate pixels in a bitmap. The Bitmap tools appear on the right side of the horizontal tool bar: This section describes how to use the bitmap tools to manipulate pixels in a bitmap. Once created, you can move, resize, and transform a bitmap as you would any other object in a drawing. Like their counterparts on the tool bar, the bitmap Line, Rectangle, and Ellipse tools draw geometric shapes. However, the bitmap tools paint pixels in a bitmap, while the Drawing tools create distinct graphic objects. You can change the pixels of a bitmap object, not of a graphic object. Creating a Bitmap Frame A bitmap frame defines the outer bounds of a bitmap. You can create a bitmap frame by using the Frame tool or by drawing a bitmap shape using other bitmap tools. You can use the bitmap tools to change pixels in the object, and you can manipulate the bitmap like other objects, moving, resizing, or transforming it as desired. If you know the size of the bitmap you want to create, or if you just want to block out an area of the drawing for the bitmap, you can use the Frame tool to create a rectangular bitmap frame. Any bitmap operations you perform in the frame are bounded by the frame and become part of it. The frame acts much like a draw objectĊyou can stretch, move, and rotate it. You cannot, however, move or resize individual bitmap items you place in the bitmap frame. Once you place a bitmap item into a frame, it permanently becomes part of that frame, unless you choose Undo from the Edit menu. Drawing 241