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Pages
Clicking the PAGES button on the top of the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY (or right clicking in
the gallery and choosing
SHOW PAGE LEVEL) will open pages mode, displaying only the
pages in the document and collapsing all other opened levels.
When in pages mode and the gallery is docked, the width of the gallery is reduced to
its minimum, to take up as little space as possible. Also the number of buttons at the
top of the gallery is cut down to just those applicable to pages. To leave pages mode,
simply expand one of the pages to reveal its layers. The gallery returns to its full width
and the full button set is restored.
You can select multiple pages in the gallery by Ctrl+clicking on pages to add them to
the selection, or by holding Shift down to select a range of pages. Then you can copy,
paste, delete or re-order multiple pages at once.
You can re-order pages by dragging on the selected pages in the
PAGE & LAYER
GALLERY
, or by right clicking a page and choosing MOVE PAGE UP/DOWN.
You can rename a page by right clicking it and choosing
RENAME PAGE. This is a useful
way to identify pages in long documents.
Layers
Everything in your document has a stacking order but with more complex documents
that have dozens, maybe hundreds or thousands of items, your work area can be
become cluttered.
Using layers you can group a collection of items together and then turn the whole
collection on or off (make it visible or hidden) in one easy operation. Layers can be
made invisible, to hide parts of your document. You can give layers names, and you
can easily create new layers or delete them. And you can open a layer and view its
contents.
When you select any object, the layer it's on is shown on the status line at the bottom
of the window.
The Current Layer
When you create any new object on the page, it's placed in one of the layers, called
the active layer or simply the current layer. On a blank document this will be called
Layer 1. The current layer is shown with a selection arrow
.
Important: All new drawn items, shapes, photos, text, and all pasted items, are
placed on the current layer marked with the symbol.