TreeDraw Legacy Edition manual
TreeDraw Legacy Edition manual
Introducing TreeDraw Legacy Edition
Tutorial - Using the drawing area
File handling
Saving a chart with a different name
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 Legacy 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 Legacy 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
You can manually join the ends of straight lines to any other chart element. Note that "joining" a line end to an element does not mean that the line end has to be in contact with the other element.
Select the line you want to join. Then hold down the CTRL key and drag with the left mouse button over the handle on
the line end, dropping it over element you want to join to. The mouse cursor will change to 
and the handle will become green when you are doing this. As you drag the cursor over other chart elements they will get a dotted outline
to indicate which one will be joined to when you release the mouse button. After the line end has been joined, the handle over the line end will become a
circle instead of a square to indicate that it is joined to something else.
When you select and move an element which has a line joined to it, the joined end will move with the element while the other end will remain in place, stretching the line. If you also select the line then the whole line will just move with the element.
A special case is where a line end is joined to another line end. Here you can stretch both lines at once by selecting the line which has the other line joined to it (the handle will be square not round) and dragging the handle.
When you select just the element which has a line joined to it, the joined line is shown with round, grey handles like this:
When you select a line which is joined to another chart element, the joined line is shown with round handles like this:
When you select both a joined line and its chart element, the handles are shown as in a normal multiple selection like this:
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