TreeDraw manual
TreeDraw manual
Tutorial - Using the drawing area
File handling
Saving a chart with a different name
Selecting a Kith and Kin Pro database
Importing from the same file again
Exporting the chart as an Adobe PDF file
Exporting the chart as a metafile
Exporting the chart as a bitmap
Preparing the chart for sending
Changing the K&KPro database link names
Tree import settings
Getting import visual styles from selection
Editing a chart
Joining lines to chart elements
Grouping chart elements together
Undoing the previous operation
Redoing the subsequent operation
Formatting
Changing a text element's link to a K&KPro database
Selecting a family to use in a database link
Selecting a person to use in a database link
Setting the shape fill pattern
Repeating the last format change
Getting default styles from selection
Alignment
Changing the order of chart elements
Aligning chart elements horizontally
Aligning chart elements vertically
Screen
Turning the snap-to-grid on and off
Moving around the drawing area
Turning the Colour Palette on and off
Turning the Chart View Control on and off
Turning the Button Bar on and off
Turning the Status Bar on and off
Printing
Setting page size/margins/orientation/footer
Setting a user-defined paper size
General
Glossary
Selecting chart elements allows you move, reformat, align, copy and perform other operations, on those elements only. There are 2 ways to select chart elements. First, make sure that you have the Pointer tool selected.
Method 1 - place the cursor over your chosen element, the cursor will change to 
, and click the
left mouse button. You will see small, square "handles" appear which indicate that the element is now selected. These handles can
also be used to resize the element. You can now select (and deselect) additional elements by holding down the
Shift key while clicking the left mouse button. When the cursor is over a selected element it looks like
. If you have more than one element selected, the handles around the elements appear grey and
you cannot use these for resizing.
Method 2 - Drag a marquee around the element(s) you wish to select. Do this by positioning the cursor where it is not over any element, press and hold the left mouse button and drag the mouse so that the expanding rectangular outline is over at least part of all your chosen elements. Release the mouse button. You can also use this method with the Shift key to add or remove elements from the selection.
If you select an element which has a line joined to it, the joined line will not be selected but will be shown with round handles (instead of square ones) to indicate that it will be affected by movement of the selected element.
The status bar at the bottom of the TreeDraw window shows the number of elements currently selected.
This is what an element looks like when it is the only selected element:
This is what more than one selected element looks like:
This is what a selected group looks like:
This is what a selected element with a joined line looks like:
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