Objects and Windows

The ten icons on Fathom’s object shelf represent objects that can be placed in a document. These objects live in the document, will print with the document, and scroll with the document. You cannot drag them outside the document window. Objects have frames around them only when selected. Some objects, when selected, have their own special menu.

At right are shown two objects—a collection and a graph. The collection has a frame around it because it is selected.

The document itself is contained in a window, as is the inspector and any objects that you have chosen to View In Window.

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Windows, such as the inspector shown below, float above the document, may be positioned outside it, and do not scroll or print with it.

You can copy a Fathom object as a picture, which you can then paste in Fathom or other applications; you cannot copy a window (you need a screen-capture program to get pictures of an inspector or formula editor).