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Special Layers
There are several special types of layer. They appear in the Page & Layer Gallery
and can be turned on and off as usual, but behave slightly differently.
Background Layers are non-printing layers that appear at the bottom of the document, under
everything else. When you apply a color to the page background (drag and drop color from the color
line) this will create a Page background
layer automatically. Normally this is locked.
You can also set the color of the pasteboard (the area around the page) by dragging a color from the
color line and dropping it on the pasteboard. This creates a Pasteboard background
layer automatically. Again, this layer is locked.
When saving a document as a website, Background layers are converted to web page backgrounds. See
the Getting Started
chapter for more details on setting web page backgrounds and using the background layers.
The Guides Layer
is where guidelines or guide objects are placed. When you create a guideline this automatically creates a
Guides layer. You can select the Guides layer and place anything you like on this layer - and it will act
like a snapping guide (if you have 'snap to guide' on).
See Guide Objects and Guidelines in the Object Handling chapter to find out more!
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