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Viewing the anchor point
The anchor point of an anchored object is only visible if you click the anchored object in the Selector
Tool or click in the surrounding text area in the Text Tool
.
When you click in a region of text with the Text Tool, it shows any anchors points within an inverted 'T'
symbol, and also draws an arrow from the anchor point to the anchor symbol in the top left of each
anchored object. So the easiest way to see all the anchor points for any text is to click in it with the Text
Tool
.
However, when you start to edit the text, the red caret, arrow and anchored symbol temporarily
disappear until you stop typing. If you are close to the anchor point, Web Designer Premium displays the
caret mark, along with an arrow pointing to the anchor symbol, to let you know when you're close.
Soft Groups
You can anchor Soft Groups (Soft Groups, Soft Groups
) the same way, even where part of the group is on another layer. For example web buttons with
mouseover effects or pop-ups on different layers can be anchored in this way.
Removing an anchor
To remove an anchor from an object, right click it and choose Anchor to text again to disable the
option. Now when you click the object in the Selector Tool or in the text in the Text Tool
, the anchor symbol is no longer displayed.
Embedded Graphics
You can insert any object into text so that it behaves just like a character in the text. Simply copy the
object to the clipboard (Ctrl+C), go into the Text Tool and position the text caret where you want to
insert the object, then paste (Ctrl+V).
You can select, copy, paste and delete the embedded object along with the text around it, just as if it was
a character in the text. However you can also still select it and transform it directly using the Selector
Tool.
Use this embedding technique in preference to Anchoring where you can, because it is more efficient in
terms of the processing required to format the text.
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