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92 Object Handling

You can also change the feathering profile. Normally a linear
transition across the feather produces the best effect, but you
may want to change this.

Select the PROFILE button to display the PROFILE dialog and adjust the sliders.

Snapping

Snapping makes it easier to position edges, or specific points on objects, exactly where
required. It can be used to align edges to a specific point or line, or to evenly space
objects, using the grid.

Xara Designer Pro X offers three types of snapping.

• Snap to grid
• Magnetic snapping (snap to objects)
• Snap to guidelines or guide objects

Grid snap is useful for making objects evenly spaced, or making the sizes exact multiples
of a given value. Guidelines are useful for aligning edges (although it’s a lot more
powerful using guide objects) and lastly magnetic snap is a general purpose way of
accurately positioning lines, points or object edges relative to other objects or to the page
center or edges.

Snap to grid

When SNAP TO GRID is selected, grid points act like magnets. Right click on the
pasteboard and choose "SNAP TO" > "SNAP TO GRID" or use the menu option "WINDOW" >
"SNAP TO GRID", (or press "." (decimal point) on the numeric keypad). You can control the
grid spacing from the options dialog (right click and choose PAGE OPTIONS or use the
menu command "UTILITIES" > "OPTIONS") on the Grid and Ruler tab.

When dragging objects the edges will snap to grid points. If the size of the object is such
that opposing edges can't both be snapped, the edge that snaps depends on the
direction the object is dragged in.