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Moving objects forward and backwards
Complex documents have objects stacked on top of each other, such as this target:
The target on the left is made from three circles stacked on top of each other.
To ensure that objects overlay each other in the correct order, you often need to rearrange their order
from front to back. The front object always covers lower objects, and objects always cover other
objects which are further back. Each new object you create is always created on top of older ones.
Right click an object and choose Arrange
, which gives you these options:
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Bring to front ("Ctrl + F"): This makes the selected object the front object, and it will hide any
other object it covers.
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Move forward ("Ctrl + ? + F"): This moves the object up a level towards the front rather like
climbing a staircase one step at a time.
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Move backward ("Ctrl + ? + B"): This moves the object one level towards the back.
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Put to back ("Ctrl + B"): This moves the object to the back.
These options move objects forwards and backwards within their layer. Right click and Move to layer
in front/Move to layer behind
lets you move objects between visible layers (invisible layers are skipped when moving objects).
Read more in Layers
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Rotating using the mouse
To see the rotation handles (instead of the scaling handles) on a selected shape in the Selector Tool,
click again on the selected shape.
Drag on a corner arrow. As you drag, the object rotates around the transformation center. The InfoBar
shows the current rotate angle.
"
?+ drag" to rotate the object around its center (the transformation center is ignored).
Hold down Ctrl while rotating to perform a constrained rotation. This means the object will rotate to only
a limited selection of angles. It will rotate to multiples of the 'constrain angle' value, which by default is 45
degrees. But additionally it will include angles at which any significant straight edges in the object are
aligned vertically or horizontally. This, for example, makes it easy to rotate a rectangle which has been
rotated slightly, so that the rectangle is straight (screen aligned) again. Or to make any straight edge in a
shape either vertical or horizontal. Such edges have to be at least 25% of the width or height of the shape
in order to be considered significant during a constrained rotation.
The constrain angle is user definable. Refer to "Customizing Web Designer Premium
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To create a copy while rotating, click "+" on the numeric keypad while rotating, or click the right mouse
button.
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