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96 Object Handling

S Toggle ‘snap to objects’ on and off. This temporarily overrides the Windows-
>Snap to objects setting.
G Group snapping. By default, to minimise the complexity and numbers of
snapping lines shown, objects inside groups are ignored and only the bounds
and centre of the whole group are considered for snapping. Pressing G turns on
group snapping so that objects inside groups also contribute to snapping just as
if they were not grouped.
A Angled snapping. See Angled snapping below.

Snapping to original position
When ‘snap to objects’ is on and you drag an object to move it, the bounding box of the
original position of the object is indicated by a red dashed rectangle. This also
contributes to snapping making it easy for you to (for example) move an object in one
dimension only. However note that you can also constrain the angle of any drag by
holding down "Ctrl" while you drag.
Angled snapping

Xara Designer Pro X is not restricted to axis-aligned snapping. With Angled snapping
turned on, the snapping system can snap parallel lines, whatever their alignment, and
find the intersections between crossing line constraints. So for example you can snap the
edge of a shape that runs at 30º with the edge of another running at the same angle.

Angled snapping is not on by default, because in most cases it’s not useful. To activate it
while dragging, simply press the ‘A’ (for Angle) key. Press again to turn off.

Snapping notes

Note: Only the objects that are fully or partly visible in the current view are considered for
snapping. You cannot snap to objects outside the view (except the page).

Note: Snapping distances are measured in screen pixels so if you have several snapping
positions close together it’s best to zoom in to make sure you snap to the one you want.

Note: When snapping text to text, the baseline of the text is favored over any other snaps
that are within snapping distance. This makes it easy to vertically align one text object to
another with matching baselines, which is normally more useful than snapping the
centers or bounding boxes of text for example.

Guide Objects and Guidelines

Guide objects and guidelines are objects on a special layer, the guides layer. A guide
layer is automatically created when you create a guideline (see below), or you can create
one manually by right clicking in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY and selecting CREATE GUIDE
LAYER (see "Page & Layer Gallery (on page 181)" for more information on layers).