The Menu Commands

## Menu Commands

This page describes Whyteboard's menu items

#### File

- New Window: Opens a new, empty instance of Whyteboard.
- New Sheet: A new sheet is created, along with a Thumbnail and a new item in the Notes tree.
- Open: Open an image, PDF/PS/SVG file, or a .wtbd save file.
- Open Recent: Your last 8 opened documents are shown.
- Save: saves your current document, overwriting any changes.
- Save As: Prompts for where to save your document, allowing you to save your changes to a new file without editing the original.
- Import File:
  - Image: Opens image files (bmp/jpg/png/tiff)
  - PDF: PDF files.
  - PostScript: PostScript files (.ps)
  - Preferences: Loads in Whyteboard preferences from a .pref file.
- Export :
  - Export Sheet: Saves the currently selected sheet as an image file
  - Export All Sheets: Saves each sheet into a series of image files.
  - PDF: Uses ImageMagick to save each sheet into a PDF
  - Preferences: Saves your Whyteboard .pref file somewhere, so it can be imported.
- Reload Preferences: Reads your preferences file and re-configures the application against it.
- Page Setup: Set up the page for printing.
- Print Preview: Preview the printed document.
- Print: Print the document.
- Quit: Exits Whyteboard. If any changes have been made to the document, then you are promted to save your file.

#### Edit

- Undo: Undoes the last action that was performed (i.e, draw a new shape). Note that some actions are undoable, such as resizing the canvas, or adding a Media panel
- Redo: Re-does the last action that was undone.
- Copy: With an active "Bitmap Select" selection, this copies the area as an image, that can be pasted.
- Paste: Any text/image data on the clipboard will be pasted into the document.
- Paste to a New Sheet: Adds a new sheet containing the pasted data.
- Preferences: Opens the preferences dialog.

#### View

- Shape Viewer: Opens the shape viewer dialog.
- History Viewer: Brings up the history dialog, allowing you to replay your drawings.
- PDF Cache: View a list of PDF documents that Whyteboard is caching
- Toolbar: Toggles the toolbar on/off.
- Statusbar: Toggles the statusbar on/off.
- Tool Preview: Toggles the tool preview at the bottom of the control panel.
- Colour Grid: Toggles the colour grid in the control panel.
- Full Screen: Runs Whyteboard in full screen. Hit escape, F11 or View->Fullscreen to return to normal.

#### Shapes

- Move Shape Up: Moves the currently selected shape up one step in the shapes' drawing order
- Move Shape Down: Moves the currently selected shape down one step in the shapes' drawing order
- Move Shape to Top: Moves the currently selected shape to the top of the shapes' drawing order
- Move Shape to Bottom: Moves the currently selected shape to the bottom of the shapes' drawing order
- Delete Shape: Deletes the currently selected shape.
- Deselect Shape: Removes the selection from the selected shape
- Color...: Change selectedshape's colour
- Background Color...: Change the selected shape's background colour, if it is not transparent
- Swap Colors: If the selected shape isn't transparent, this swaps the shape's foreground and background colours
- Transparent: Toggles the selected shape's transparency

#### Sheets

- Remove Sheet: Closes the currently selected sheet
- Close All Sheets: Closes every sheeet, leaving a blank new sheet
- Rename Sheet: Changes the sheet's name (defaults to "Sheet [x]")
- Resize Canvas: Opens a dialog to allow you to change the current sheet's canvas' width and height.
- Next Sheet: Selects the next sheet
- Previous Sheet: Selects the previous sheet.
- Undo Last Closed Sheet: Restores the last sheet that was closed
- Recently Closed Sheets: A list of the recently closed sheets to undo. This way you can pick a sheet to undo instead of only being able to close the most recently closed sheet.
- Clear Sheet's Drawings: Removes everything from the current sheet
- Clear Sheet: Removes everything but Images from the current sheet
- Clear All Sheets' Drawings: Clears all sheets
- Clear All Sheets: Clears all sheets, keeping their images

#### Help

- Contents: Opens this help viewer
- Check for Updates: Whyteboard will check if there's a new version available and download and intall it, if you choose.
- Report a Problem: Opens a webpage to allow you to submit a bug report
- Translate: Opens a webpage to allow you to translate the prorgram
- Send Feedback: Send feedback by email to the developer directly
- About: View the developer and translator credits