1. A method for manipulating an inked object comprising the steps of: receiving an ink stroke made by a pointing device of a computer system, said ink stroke being represented internally to said computer system as an array of ink coordinates; displaying said ink stroke on a screen of said computer system by displaying a plurality of line segments on said screen which connect pixels of said screen corresponding to said array of ink coordinates; creating an internal representative stroke from said array of ink coordinates within said computer system, where said representative stroke is not displayed on said screen; receiving a user-initiated command into said computer system which causes a manipulation of said representative stroke within said computer system; transforming coordinates of said array of ink coordinates into transformed coordinates in said computer system in accordance with said manipulation of said representative stroke; and re-displaying said ink stroke on said screen of said computer system in accordance with said transformed coordinates of said array of ink coordinates without displaying said representative stroke.