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  36 <topic id="textsdrawguideduplicate_objectxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
  37 <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Duplicating Objects</title>
  38 <filename>/text/sdraw/guide/duplicate_object.xhp</filename>
  39 </topic>
  40 <history>
  41 <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
  42 <lastedited date="2004-09-27T11:22:15">FPE: Reformatted. This should be rewritten to be more of an instruction. We should get rid of the screen shot
  43 YJ: checked</lastedited>
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  47 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145750"><bookmark_value>doubling draw objects</bookmark_value>
  48 <bookmark_value>draw objects; duplicating</bookmark_value>
  49 <bookmark_value>duplicating draw objects</bookmark_value>
  50 <bookmark_value>multiplying draw objects</bookmark_value>
  51 </bookmark>
  52 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145750" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="3"><variable id="duplicate_object"><link href="text/sdraw/guide/duplicate_object.xhp" name="Duplicating Objects">Duplicating Objects</link>
  53 </variable></paragraph>
  54 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149400" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">You can create duplicate or multiple copies of an object. The copies can be identical or can differ in size, color, orientation and location.</paragraph>
  55 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153415" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">The following example creates a stack of coins by making multiple copies of a single ellipse.</paragraph>
  56 <list type="ordered">
  57 <listitem>
  58 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149129" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Use the <emph>Ellipse</emph> tool to draw a solid yellow ellipse.</paragraph>
  59 </listitem>
  60 <listitem>
  61 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149209" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">Select the ellipse and choose <emph>Edit - Duplicate</emph>.</paragraph>
  62 </listitem>
  63 <listitem>
  64 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145585" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Enter 12 as <emph>Number of copies.</emph>
  65 </paragraph>
  66 </listitem>
  67 <listitem>
  68 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151192" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Enter a negative value for the <emph>Width</emph> and <emph>Height</emph> so that the coins decrease in size as you go up the stack.</paragraph>
  69 </listitem>
  70 <listitem>
  71 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151387" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="39">To define a color transition for the coins, select different colors in the <emph>Start</emph> and <emph>End</emph> boxes. The <emph>Start</emph> color is applied to the object that you are duplicating.</paragraph>
  72 </listitem>
  73 <listitem>
  74 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149947" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Click <emph>OK</emph> to create the duplicates.</paragraph>
  75 </listitem>
  76 </list>
  77 <section id="relatedtopics">
  78 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153935" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="50"><link href="text/simpress/01/02120000.xhp" name="Edit - Duplicate">Edit - Duplicate</link></paragraph>
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