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Object Handling 103

The small diagram at the top of the dialog box shows
you the effect of selecting each option. The selected
objects in the document do not change until you click
APPLY.
The alignment dialog is a non-modal dialog, which
means you can keep it on screen and continue to work
on the document at the same time. So you can change
tools, draw, and change your object selection, and then
easily select from the various alignment options.
If you’ve got your selection wrong, you can change the
selection, and just click the APPLY button to apply the
last alignment settings again. This can be a real-time
saver.

Within
This section of the dialog controls the boundaries within which you align or distribute the
objects. The options are:

SELECTION BOUNDS: The boundaries are the outer
edges of the selected objects. Their relative position
on the page or spread has no effect.

BOUNDS OF BACK OBJECT: The boundaries are the
outer edges of the backmost selected object. This
object is not affected by the alignment.
You can use this to define the "reference" object when
you want to align several objects in a row, for instance.
With the normal "Selection bounds" options on the
leftmost object is the reference object (the one that

won't move)