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Object Handling 119
Note: When snapping text to text, the baseline of the text is favored over any other
snaps that are within snapping distance. This makes it easy to vertically align one
text object to another with matching baselines, which is normally more useful than
snapping the centers or bounding boxes of text for example.
Guide Objects and Guidelines
Guide objects and guidelines are objects on a special layer, the guides layer. A guide
layer is automatically created when you create a guideline (see below), or you can
create one manually by right clicking in the
PAGE & LAYER GALLERY and selecting
CREATE GUIDE LAYER (see "Page & Layer Gallery (on page 149)" for more information
on layers).
Use
SNAP TO GUIDES in the Window menu (or key 2 on the numeric keypad) to turn
on snapping to guide objects.
Any object placed on the guides layer becomes a guide object. These can be any
object type including lines at any angle, irregular shapes, and quickshapes. You can
create, scale, and delete objects on the guides layer as usual, but they always appear
as thin dotted red outlines; any applied line width or fill color is ignored. This
information is retained, and if you later move the object from the guides layer to a
normal layer, line thickness, and colors are shown again.
You can use guide objects to draw construction lines such as lines passing through a
vanishing point for perspective drawing.
Placing objects onto the Guides Layer
First ensure there is a guide layer in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY, see above. You can
create objects directly on the guides layer by selecting it and creating objects as usual.
The Page & Layer Gallery showing a guides layer above two
other layers, and selected.
You can also cut or copy
objects from another layer
and then paste those objects
into the guides layer. To
paste the objects in the same
relative position on the
guides layer use the
keyboard shortcut "Ctrl +
Shift + V".