Snapping
The snapping feature simplifies placement and alignment by “magnetizing” moved or resized objects to grid dots and ruler guides. Objects can also snap to other guides on the page such as page margins, rows, columns, and bleeds, as well as the page edge, and page/margin centers (i.e., the center of the page in relation to the page edge or page margins).
In addition, dynamic guides can be used to align and resize objects to existing object edges and centers by snapping. Guides appear dynamically as you drag objects.
To turn snapping on/off globally:
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Click
Snapping on the Hintline (don’t click the drop-down arrow). The button has an orange color when snapping is switched on.
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Select Snapping from the Arrange menu (or via right-click).
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From Tools>Options, select the Layout>Snapping menu option, then check/uncheck the Snap to check box.
Once snapping is enabled, you can selectively switch on/off snapping options (i.e., Ruler guides, Grid dots, etc).
To turn individual snapping controls on and off:
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Click the down arrow on the
Snapping button (Hintline) and check/uncheck a snapping option via the drop-down menu.
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From
Tools>Options, select the Layout>Snapping menu option, then check/uncheck a chosen option under the Snap to section.
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Tools>Options offers the full set of snapping options for the user. You can also control Snapping Distance, i.e. the distance in monitor pixels at which an object will start to snap to a dot, guide, etc.
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For precise ruler guide placement, check Ruler Marks in Tools>Options to snap guides to ruler marks.
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Use Alt-drag to override snapping temporarily.
Snapping with dynamic guides
For accurate object alignment and resizing, you can use dynamic guides instead of setting ruler guides manually or performing selection, transform, and alignment operations. These red-colored guides are shown between the vertices of the last three selected placed page objects and the manipulated object and “visually suggest” possible snapping options such as snap to the placed object’s left, right, center, top, right, bottom, or to the page center. You can include objects to snap to by dragging over objects.
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For alignment |
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For resizing |
To switch on dynamic guides:
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Click the down arrow on the
Snapping button (Hintline) and click Dynamic Guides on the drop-down menu.
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To snap to page centers as well, you must additionally check Page center in Tools>Options>Layout>Snapping.