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Shearing Objects

Selected
can be sheared either by clicking on the shear button or by selecting Transform->Shear... (`Ctrl-H`). This will open up a dialog box in which you can specify the shear factors. The shearing transformation is given by:

Notes:

- Individual objects will be sheared relative to the bottom left corner of the object's
  .

- Objects within a
  will be sheared relative to the bottom left corner of the group's bounding box.

- Shearing a
  will shear the path and the text will adjust to follow the transformed path. Note that the text itself will not be sheared.

- Shearing a text area and path and then combining them to form a text-path is not the same as first combining and then shearing.

To illustrate this, in Figure 8.18(a) there are three objects selected. The selection is then sheared with shear factors sx=1 and sy=0. The result is shown in Figure 8.18(b).

In Figure 8.19, the three objects in Figure 8.18 were first |
| (Figure 8.19(a)) and then sheared with shear factors sx=1 and sy=0 (Figure 8.19(b)).

In Figure 8.20, the path and text area in Figure 8.20(a) are combined into a text-path, shown in Figure 8.20(b). This text-path is then sheared with shear factors sx=1 and sy=0 Figure 8.20(c). Note that this is different from first shearing the original path and text area, shown in Figure 8.20(d), and then combining them to form a text-path, shown in Figure 8.20(e).

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(b)
Figure 8.18: Two selected objects sheared horizontally: (a) before, (b) after.

(a)
(b)
Figure 8.19: A group consisting of two objects sheared horizontally: (a) before, (b) after.

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(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Figure 8.20: Shearing a text-path: (a) original text area and path; (b) text area and path in (a) combined to form a text-path; (c) text-path in (b) sheared horizontally; (d) text area and path in (a) sheared horizontally; (e) sheared text area and path in (d) combined to form a text-path.

If you prefer to shear an
using the mouse, you first need to |
|. Then drag the top right hotspot to shear vertically or the top left hotspot to shear horizontally. Note that even if you have more than one object selected, only the object whose hotspot you are dragging will be transformed.

See also:

- Grouping and Ungrouping Objects
- Rotating Objects
- Scaling Objects
- Enabling Hotspots
- Combining a Text Area and Path to Form a Text-Path

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