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• Selecting and Editing Objects
• Moving an Object
• Cut
• Copy
• Paste
• Object Description
• Editing Control Points
• Symmetric Shapes
• Editing Text Areas
• Combining a Text Area and Path to Form a Text-Path
• Text Outlines
• Reducing to Grey Scale
• Colour Space Conversions
• Fade
• Removing Translucency
• Moving an Object Up or Down the Stacking Order
• Rotating Objects
• Scaling Objects
• Shearing Objects
• Distorting Shapes
• Grouping and Ungrouping Objects
• Aligning Objects
• Reversing a Path's Direction
• Merging Paths
• Path Union
• Exclusive Or Function
• Path Intersection
• Path Subtraction
• Separating a Text-Path into a Text Area and Path
• Converting a Path or Text-Path into a Pattern
• Converting to a Path
• Converting a Text Area, Text-Path or Pattern to a Path
• Converting an Outline to a Path
• Splitting Text Areas

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Converting to a Path

It's possible to convert the outline of a shape, text area or text-path to a path using the menu item Transform->Convert Outline To Path. Note that the convert to path function can not be applied to groups or bitmaps.

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