In libre office draw, is rgere a way to paste the shape in the visible area instead of the original place from which it was copied?
I use libreoffice draw as a white board so the page is big and I cut an copy for example a rectangle from somewhere else but I have to drag it all the way to the place where I want to use it. is it poassible to paste the copy in the visible area ?
Workaround
Drag the desired object into the “My Theme” gallery.
There you can right-click and select Paste (as often as you like.).
You can work with two views of the huge page and drag-copy the shape from one view to the other.
I think a paste from clipboard to mouse position or center of current window does not exist. It might be possible with a macro.
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In gallery I dont see anything as my theme
I opened two files but draging one shape from one view to another is not possible. I wonder why people dont first check before imropvising solutions!
Of cause I check it before posting.
I have told about a second view, not about opening two files. To get a second view of the document use menu Window → New Window. To see both views at the same time, you do not maximize the views but size and position them so, that they are placed side-by-side. A second view means, that it is the same document and changes in each view affect the entire document.
Perhaps you are not patient enough with drag-copy? Click on the source shape and hold the mouse button down till the mouse pointer indicates that the content is in the clipboard. Here on Windows it looks like
Still holding mouse button down press Ctrl-key. Now the cursor gets an additional + to indicate that the original shape stays in its place and you use a copy.
Now with still holding mouse button down move mouse to the target place in the other view and release the mouse button.
See Dragging and Dropping Within a LibreOfficeDev Document
Such drag-copy does not only work between views but it works between different documents as well, from a document in Draw to a document in Writer, for example.
At the bottom edge of the Gallery window is a button “New” to create an own private Gallery theme. You can name it as you want. It is useful to start its name with an underscore. That makes it appear as first one in the Gallery.
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Another workaround is to paste, and change the position values of X and Y (F4 opens the dialog, and the values can be seen in the horizontal and vertical rules).
Comparing software, Inkscape paste where the mouse pointer is.
Yes, I sometimes wonder how little questioners reveal:
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