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The process of creating an object is known as instantiating the object. In other words, you create an instance of a particular class. One simple way to create an object instance doesn’t involve ActionScript at all. In Flash Professional place a movie clip symbol, button symbol, or text field on the Stage and assign it an instance name.
- Snap to Objects can be enabled using View Snapping Snap to Objects, or by using the Snap to Objects button at the bottom of the Tools panel. Using the Line tool Most illustration programs have a line tool, and while it’s not the most creative tool in the box, you can use Flash’s Selection tool to make it more useful.
- How can you create an object in Adobe Acrobat pro, Like Link, form filed or image can b add with appropriate tool, or you can select with object tool. Touch Mode object tool can also be use for this work. You can import content as part of the document, like text, images and multimedia objects. Right Click on Tool Bar and Active Touch Mode.
- Grouping and Drawing Objects
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This chapter is from the book Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Unleashed
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Grouping and Drawing Objects
Throughout this chapter, we have gone over how to draw, modify, and erase shapes from the stage. Following are a few helpful tips about grouping them.
Groupies
In the next chapter, you will see how to convert primitive objects to a Graphic symbol, but they are a more permanent solution for grouping shapes. Actually, grouping shapes together is a much less permanent solution because you can quickly group and ungroup them.
To group a few selections together, select Modify, Group (Ctrl+G). To Ungroup them, select Modify, Ungroup (Ctrl+Shift+G or Ctrl+B).
Drawing Objects
New to Flash 8, Drawing Objects are a special kind of group. You can draw your shapes within Drawing Objects automatically if the tool has the Object Drawing option turned on (Shortcut: J). They can also be created by selecting raw shapes (and other Drawing Objects) and selecting Modify, Combine Objects, Union.
What is unique about Drawing Objects is that even though they do not act like raw shapes, you can still modify them the same way with the Arrow tool, the Paint Bucket, the Eraser, and the other drawing tools without having to double-click them to go into Edit mode. You can also adjust them with the Properties Inspector, unlike groups, as shown in Figure 3.23. And like groups, you can stack Drawing Objects over top of one another in the same layer without having to worry about them affecting each other or raw shapes.
Figure 3.23 You can see the difference in the Property Inspector from selecting a group to selecting a Drawing Object.
You can, however, have them affect one another by overlaying them and selecting the other options under Modify, Combine Objects:
- Intersect—Leaves only the part of the shape where all shapes overlaid.
- Punch—Removes the section of all shapes beneath top shape where the top shape overlaid.
- Crop—Leaves sections of all shapes beneath top shape where top shape overlaid. Exact opposite of punch option.
See Figure 3.24 to see what these options mean.
Figure 3.24 The effects of the different Combine Objects options.
Stacking Groups
As you get more familiar with grouping shapes as groups or Drawing Objects, you will notice that as you group them, they tend to stack on top of one another. Controls found under Modify, Arrange can help this, including:
- BringtoFront—Brings the selection to the top viewing level in the layer. (Ctrl+Shift+Up)
- BringForward—Moves the selection up one viewing level. (Ctrl+Up)
- SendBackward—Moves the selection down one viewing level. (Ctrl+Down)
- SendtoBack—Sends the selection to the bottom-most viewing level. (Ctrl+Shift+Down)
You can also lock shapes within a layer so that they cannot be selected and then unlock shapes to reselect them.
Now that you have seen how to work with shapes, groups, and Drawing Objects, you’ll learn about bitmaps.
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How can you create an object in Adobe Acrobat pro, Like Link, form filed or image can b add with appropriate tool, or you can select with object tool. Touch Mode object tool can also be use for this work. You can import content as part of the document, like text, images and multimedia objects.
Step 1. Right Click on Tool Bar and Active Touch Mode
You can also find Touch Mode object tool in Touch Mode sub toolbar of the advanced editing toolbar, its really very useful when you are organizing content on a PDF page.
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Step 2. Click on Touch Mode Tool For Active it
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For example if you have added new text to a PDF file and need to shuffle the location of the following text, you can use the Touch Mode object tool to select text and drag it to a new location on the page of PDF file.