User guide

72 Working with Objects
To crop one shape to another:
1. Place the "clipping" object in front of the object to be cropped. In the
illustration above, a QuickShape is in front of a text frame.
2. Choose Crop to Shape from the Tools menu to cut out the obscured
underlying text.
You can restore an object cropped in this way to its original shape, but the upper
"cropping" object is permanently deleted (use Undo to recover it if necessary).
Combining lines and shapes
Combining curves is a way of creating a composite object from two or more
lines or drawn shapes. As with cropping to a shape, the object in front clips the
object(s) behind, in this case leaving one or more "holes" where the component
objects overlapped. As with grouping, you can apply formatting (such as line or
fill) to the combined object and continue to edit individual nodes and segments
with the Pointer Tool. Unlike those other methods, a combined object
permanently takes the line and fill properties of the front object. Combining is
reversible, but the component objects keep the line and fill properties of the
combined object.
Combining is a quick way to create a mask or stencil cutout:
QuickShapes Convert to
Curves
Combine Curves Drop Shadow
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