Page 115 - Xara Designer Pro X17

Object Handling 115

The Auto-fit dialog controls how items move or stretch as the page size changes

The AUTO-FIT ALL OBJECTS checkbox controls the automatic behavior of all items in the
document. The dialog defaults to AUTOMATIC for all items in your document, but you can
control the behavior of individual objects using the settings in the lower panel.

The AUTO-FIT ALL OBJECTS checkbox turns the feature on. Bear in mind that even if this
option is un-checked existing documents that had items marked as footers, or to stretch,
will continue to behave as usual. This option just enables a more comprehensive,
automatic positioning of items on the page.

Width only or Width & Height
There are two distinct use-cases where you might want automatic positioning of items on
the page:
1. Websites, particularly ‘blog’ style websites where the pages are of variable length,
depending on how much text you have. Here you do not want the position of items
on the page (typically at the top of the page) to be moved as the page grows. In
this case select the WIDTH ONLY option. This means things will be repositioned when
you change the page width, but not when the page height changes.
2. Print documents, Social Media documents or Presentations, where you want things
to re-position and stretch (automatically adapt) whenever the page width or height is
changed. In this case select the WIDTH & HEIGHT option. This is the default when you
enable AUTOMATIC FIT.

So to summarize for most document types, print, presentations and social media, select
WIDTH & HEIGHT. For websites choose the WIDTH ONLY option.
Click APPLY to effect the change - you can now test the result by dragging the right or
lower page edge to see how things move as you adjust the page size. Or alternatively in
the PAGE OPTIONS (on page 41) dialog, select from drop-down list of common page sizes.