User Guide
ADOBE ENCORE DVD 2.0
User Guide
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Using guides in menus
About guides
Guides help you position items in menus. You can add, move, remove, or lock guides, and turn them on or off.
Guides are visible only in the Menu Viewer. You do not see them when previewing or in the final DVD. Guides have
an optional setting that makes objects you drag snap to them. The selection boundary and the center point of objects,
as well as the baseline of type, snap to the guides.
You place guides at pixel locations in the menu; the zero point being the top left corner of the menu.
Menu with guides displayed
A. Zero point of menu B. Horizontal guide C. Ver tical guide
The guides you create are specific to that menu. They are saved in the menu and transfer with a menu between Adobe
Encore DVD and Photoshop. Any changes you make to the guides in either program transfer with the menu.
Note: When setting guides to align objects in several menus, it is important to remember that you place guides at the
pixellocationofthemenu,notthescreen.Therefore,ifyouhavemenuscreatedusingsquarepixelsinthesameproject
as menus using rectangular pixels, guides placed at the same pixel location in each menu can result in different locations
on the screen. For example, horizontal guides placed at 75 pixels do not line up between a 720 x 534 pixels menu (square
pixels) and a 720 x 480 pixels menu (rectangular pixels).
To place a guide
1 Open the menu to which you want to add guides.
2 Choose View > New Guide or click the New Guide Button at the bottom of the Menu Viewer.
3 Select Horizontal or Vertical orientation, enter a position, and click OK.
To use guides
• To show or hide guides, choose View > Show Guides or click the Show Guides button at the bottom of the
Menu Viewer.
• To move guides, using a selection tool, position the pointer over the guide. When the pointer turns into a double-
headed arrow, move the guide.
• To lock all guides, choose View Lock Guides.To remove guides from the menu, using a selection tool, drag the
guide completely outside the Menu Viewer. To remove all guides, choose View > Clear Guides.
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