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4 The Anatomy of the Universe

This chapter explains the anatomy of pictures: what are hangers, anchors, graphic objects, what are geometric dependencies, how it all works together, .... You will learn many details about the objects you have met in the previous chapter.

When we talk about “the universe”, we mean all the objects reachable for you; they are documents, pages, graphic objects etc. and are visible in the Universe Browser window. We now start with the smallest elements you can manipulate with and gradually build the whole universe in the bottom-up direction. The most important elements are the graphic objects. They contain anchors and hangers. The graphic objects are grouped into groups, pages and documents.