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186 Page & Layer Gallery

Using this tab you can apply animated transition effects to a layer, if it’s used as a pop-up
layer on a web page, or if it’s a presentation layer. The layer then appears with the
transition effect when it’s revealed in the exported web page. Use the slider to set a
transition time from 0-5 seconds.

In a presentation document, a layer can be set as a presentation by checking the
PRESENTATION LAYER checkbox. See Website Presentations (on page 516).

Note: Turning off the PRESENTATION LAYER option will remove the step from the
presentation.

By default when a transition is applied, objects will only slide in/out to the edge of the
web page. If you would like objects to start from the browser window edges, rather than
the web page edges, deselect the CLIP TO PAGE edges checkbox in the Website tab (on
page 469) of the Web Properties dialog.

Special Layers

There are several special types of layer. They appear in the Page & Layer Gallery and
can be turned on and off as usual, but behave slightly differently.

BACKGROUND LAYERS are non-printing layers that appear at the bottom of the document,
under everything else. When you apply a color to the page background (drag and drop
color from the color line) this will create a PAGE BACKGROUND layer automatically.
Normally this is locked.

You can also set the color of the pasteboard (the area around the page) by dragging a
color from the color line and dropping it on the pasteboard. This creates a PASTEBOARD
BACKGROUND layer automatically. Again, this layer is locked.

When saving a document as a website, background layers are converted to web page
backgrounds. See the Web Graphics & Websites chapter for more details on setting web
page backgrounds and using the background layers.
The GUIDES LAYER is where guidelines or guide objects are placed. When you create a
guideline this automatically creates a Guides layer. See Guide Objects and Guidelines
(on page 96) in the Object Handling chapter to find out more.

The MASK LAYER is where mask objects are drawn. This is created and turned on (made
visible) automatically when you turn mask mode on. See masks (on page 333) to find out
more.

PRESENTATIONS STEPS are layers that are steps in a 'slide show'-style presentation -
presentation documents only. Presentations steps can contain multiple objects and have
transitions applied, the same as layers, but steps can be displayed by the viewer using
the right/left keyboard arrow keys. See Website Presentations (on page 516) to find out
more.