Unit 1: Digital Documentation

Using LibreOffice Writer

CHAPTER 2: Working with Images

1. A drawing, chart, photo, logo, graph, or single video frame are all examples of a _________.

Answer: Picture

2. A digital image is represented in a finite set of digital values known as____________.

Answer: pixels

3. An image can be inserted into a document using a __________ dialog.

Answer: Insert Image

4. You can open a file browser window using the _________ keyboard shortcut.

Answer: Win+E

5. Instead of inserting multiple copies of the same image we can use the ________ method.

Answer: linking

6. Ctrl+Shift is the keyboard shortcut to _______ an image.

Answer: link

7. Resizing, cropping, deleting and rotating the image is known as ________ the image.

Answer: modifying

8. Red, Green and Blue are the three _________ colors.

Answer: primary

9. Clicking on Image Filter opens a window with ___ different filters.

Answer: 11

10. The __________ tool softens the contrast of image

Answer: Smooth

11. The _________ tool removes single pixels from the image

Answer: Remove Noise

12. The Invert tool inverts the brightness if the image is ___________.

Answer: grayscale

13. The Posterize Tool makes a picture appear like a __________.

Answer: painting

14. _________ is the process of reducing or enlarging the size of the image.

Answer: Resizing

15. To add a flowchart or a callout box in our document, we can use the _________ tool.

Answer: Drawing

16. To cancel the selected drawing function, we can press the ________ key

Answer: Esc

17. In LibreOffice Writer, we can have different shapes behave as a single entity by ___________ them.

Answer: grouping

18. Positioning of an image is controlled by _________ settings.

Answer: four

19. __________ setting determines the position of the current drawing with respect to other drawings or text.

Answer: Arrangement

20. The __________ setting allows the vertical or horizontal placement of the image

Answer: alignment

21. Colour drop down list of Office Writer consists of ________ components.

Answer: six

22. Choose the Group option for Grouping drawing objects from the ______menu bar.

Answer: format

23. The feature provided by LiberOffice Writer to draw a callout box is _________.

Answer: Drawing Tools

Book Solution

I. MCQ (only answers are given not the options)

1. The text or image which appears faintly in the background of a page is called _________________.

Answer: Water mark

2. JPG or JPEG in image format stands for _________________.

Answer: Joint Photographic Experts Group

3. Which of the following is not the correct file extension for an image file?

Answer: Odt

4. Image toolbar does not provide a tool for _________________.

Answer: copying

II. Fill in the blanks

1. _________ tool cuts off non-desirable part of the image.

2. To change both brightness and contrast of the image ________________ tool can be used.

3. To simulate the effect of time on picture _____________ tool is used.

4. _________ place image at the bottom of all objects.

5. An image can be deleted by ____________ it and pressing DELETE key.

6. In drawing tools, basic shapes list provides ____________ shapes.

7. Anchor act as _____________ point for a drawing.

8. There are ________________ options for aligning an image horizontally.

9. The ___________ handles of image are used for rotating it.

10. Changing properties of an object _____________ creation, retain them throughout the session.

Answers

1. Crop
2. gamma correction
3. ageing
4. Send Back
5. selecting
6. 25
7. reference
8. three
9. corner
10. before its
III. Short answer questions

1. What is a digital image? How can you create one?

Answer: A picture is a digital image, which is a representation of an image in finite set of digital values O or 1,
known as pixels.

Digital Image can be created:

by using photo editing software such as paint, photoshop, corel draw.
by clicking photo by using digital camera, smart phone camera, etc.
by taking screen shots, etc.

2. Write steps to insert an image from the gallery using the Drag and Drop method.

Answer: The standard procedure is just drag the image from its source and drop it at desired position in the
document.

A general procedure to insert an image using drag and drop option, are -
Open the document to insert an image in LibreOffice Writer.
Open a file browser window (Win+E) and select the image file to be inserted.
Drag the image into the document
Drop it, where you want it to appear in the document

3. How is resizing an image different from cropping it?

Resizing Cropping

Resizing is the process of reducing or enlarging Cropping is the process of removing the
the size of the image. unwanted parts from the image.

Resizing the image, its size gets changed. While cropping the image cuts it.

4. What are the tools available in the drawing toolbar? Describe any of the five tools.

Answer: The drawing toolbar contains the following tools:

Select, Lines & Arrows, Curve, Polygon, Rectangle, Square, Oval, Circle, Isosceles triangle, Arrow, Fontwork,
Star, Right angle triangle, Basic Shapes, Symbol, Flowchart, Callouts, Text box, Points, Toggle Extrusion.

Select Tool: Select tool is used to select drawing objects.

Lines & Arrows: Lines and Arrow tool is used to draw a line or arrows of different types.
Curve: Curve tool is used to draw a curve line of different types.
Polygon: Polygon is used to draw a polygon.
5. How is the linking of an image different from embedding? Give a situation where you would prefer to link an
image.
Answer: Linking an image means stores its reference instead of the image itself, thereby reduces the size of
the document, because actual image is saved only once as a separate file along with the document.
Embedding of an image means inserting (adding) the image into the writer document, in this case the size of
file increased by the size of image file.

Linking is useful when inserting multiple copies of the same image in a document. It is beneficial to save the
link of image instead of inserting the image.

6. Write steps to change the properties for drawing objects.

Answer: Steps to change the properties for drawing objects are

Select the object whose properties are to be modified.

From the Drawing Object Properties Toolbar, click on the icon of property to be modified.
Change the value of parameter.

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of grouping drawing objects?

Answer:
The benefits of grouping drawing objects are:
• Grouping combines all different shapes to behave as a single entity without affecting its size and
position.
• Grouping helps in moving and resizing all objects together.
• Once grouped, all shapes belonging to that group become its member and a change applied on one
member works on all.

Drawbacks of grouping drawing objects are:

• After grouping it is not easy to delete any one drawing object.
• It is not easy to change the size and position of any one drawing object.

8. Describe any two tools from the Drawing Object Properties toolbar.

Answer: Drawing Object Properties toolbar is having several tools. These are-

Area Style/Filling: use to change the area filling style i.e. color, gradient, pattern, hatching, bitmap, etc.
Rotate: helps in rotating object as per the requirement.
Fill Color: helps in changing the filled color of any shape.
Line color: to change the color of the line of a drawing object.
Caption: to the caption with the drawing object.

9. Write steps to insert an image in a basic drawing shape.

Answer: Steps to insert an image in a basic drawing shape:

Select the basic drawing shape.
Right click and select the Area option. Under the Area dialog box, Click on Image tab.
Select the image under the Image option.
Click on Ok.
10. Write the factors controlling the positioning of an image in a document.
Answer: Positioning of an image is controlled by four settings:
(i) Arrangement
(ii) Anchoring
(iii) Alignment
(iv) Text Wrapping

11. Which are the different ways of accessing the settings to position images in texts?

Answer: The settings can be accessed using three ways -

by using Format menu,

by using context menu after right clicking on the object,
by using Drawing Object Properties Toolbar for changing the properties of the drawings.

12. How can you insert an image into a document?

Answer: The image file stored on the computer can be inserted into a document using different ways.
• using Insert Image dialog
• using Drag and Drop option
• using Cut, Copy and Paste option
• by Linking
13. What is the use of the Image toolbar?
Answer: The Image toolbar is used to resize, crop, delete and rotate the image.

14. Name the tools in the image toolbar in order.

i. The first 3 components represent the three primary colours Red, Green and Blue, respectively.
ii. The fourth component represent the Brightness
iii. The fifth component represent the Contrast
iv. The sixth component represents Gamma.

15. Which are the four options under Group option.

Answer: There are four options under Group option. These are Group, Ungroup, Enter Group, Exit Group.

16. Define the four settings of positioning an image in the text.

Answer: Positioning of an image is controlled by four settings.
(i) Arrangement : In Overlapping objects arrangement determines the position of the current drawing with
respect to other drawings or text.
(ii) Anchoring: Anchoring allows an image to retain its position to a page, paragraph, character or frame.
(iii) Alignment: It allows the vertical or horizontal placement of the image with respect to its anchor.
(iv) Text Wrapping: It allows the placement of image in relation to text.