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Select clipping shape
This selects only the shape that you used to do the clipping. Effectively this is the
‘window’ through which you see the other object(s) in the clipview. Once it’s selected
you can move it around or otherwise transform it, to adjust your clipview.
Select clipped objects
This selects all the objects in the clipview that are being clipped. Therefore once these
are selected, you can drag them around inside the clipview to adjust their position
relative to the clipping shape.
Selecting objects in the Clipview
You can perform a "select inside" by holding "Ctrl" and clicking on the desired object.
This is very like selecting objects inside a group described earlier in this chapter
(ClipView objects are a type of group). You can now perform most edit operations on
the object.
Removing a ClipView
Just select the object and the menu "Arrange -> Remove ClipView", or press "Alt +
Q".
Soft edged ClipView
With the whole ClipView object selected, you can adjust the FEATHER slider control
on the top bar, to give the whole clipped object a soft feathered edge.
Note: You can have ClipView objects inside ClipView objects.
Repeating Objects
It's common to have items like headers, page numbers or logos repeating on all pages
of a multi-page document.
You can make any object a repeating object by right clicking it and choosing
REPEAT
ON ALL PAGES
. The object is copied to the same place on all pages, displaying the
repeating symbol icon in the top left hand corner. If you make any further changes to
this item all the copies will be automatically updated.
Note: This uses the current page as the source of the repeating items to copy across
all the other pages. So make sure you're on the right page before updating objects.
The current page is the one you're working on, and is shown with markers around
the page corners. Just click anywhere on the page (or even outside it) to make the
page current. Or click the page in the Page & Layer Gallery.