Shapes & images

Rectangles and ellipses

Pick the rectangle (⊞) or ellipse (⊕) tool and drag on the canvas. Before drawing — or after selecting an existing shape — tune it in the context bar:

Option	Applies to	Values
Fill	Rectangle, ellipse	Any color, with transparency (default #3b82f6)
Stroke color	Rectangle, ellipse	Any color, with transparency (default black)
Stroke width	Rectangle, ellipse	0 to 20 px (default 2, 0 = no border)
Stroke style	Rectangle, ellipse	Solid, Dashed, Dotted
Radius	Rectangle	0 to 100 px

The values you set before drawing are reused for the next shapes, so you can draw a series of identical boxes quickly.

Tip

Shapes make great layout helpers: a full-width colored rectangle sent to the back is a header band, a thin rectangle is a separator line, a transparent rectangle with a dashed stroke is a signature area.

Images

Click the image icon in the toolbar and pick a file. The image is uploaded, scaled down to fit 800 × 800 px if it’s larger, and placed in the center of the page. Move and resize it like any other shape.

Caution

Use PNG or JPEG files: they are the formats supported by the PDF renderer. Keep images reasonably small (a few MB at most) — they are stored in the database and embedded in every PDF you export.

An image placed this way is static: the same picture in every PDF — a logo, a letterhead. For a picture that changes from one document to the next, use an image variable and send a PNG or JPEG data URL at export time. See Variables.