User Guide

Chapter 2: Documents and Setup

Rulers Displays the vertical and horizontal rulers.

Breaks Displays page breaks.

Margins Displays page margins.

Print area Displays the printable area.

Text boxes Displays text boxes.

Spelling errors Displays spelling errors.

Select Across layers Enables selections of objects across more than one layer.

Changing tool settings

When you select a tool, its settings automatically appear in the Properties bar. Use the menus, check

boxes, and scroll boxes to change the tool settings.

For example, if you select the Brush tool, the following settings appear in the Properties bar:

Modifying object properties

When an object is selected, the Properties bar automatically displays the object’s reference point,

coordinates, height, width, rotation, and skew settings. You can also change the object’s opacity and

transfer mode.

Common object properties

X and Y Displays the X and Y coordinates.

For line objects, the Properties bar displays the X/Y coordinates

for the start of the line and the end of the line, the length of the

line, and the angle of the line.

Coordinate arrows Displays the default coordinate format for the document.

Reference point Displays the reference point for the object. This is the point on the

selected object (or its bounding box) that position data is based on.The

reference point is also the fixed point used in an object’s transformation.

Width and Height Displays the height and width of the object.

Scale Click the down arrow to change between scaling the object