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Object Handling 97

Use SNAP TO GUIDES in the Window menu (or key 2 on the numeric keypad) to turn on
snapping to guide objects.

Any object placed on the guides layer becomes a guide object. These can be any object
type including lines at any angle, irregular shapes, and quickshapes. You can create,
scale, and delete objects on the guides layer as usual, but they always appear as thin
dotted red outlines; any applied line width or fill color is ignored. This information is
retained, and if you later move the object from the guides layer to a normal layer, line
thickness, and colors are shown again.

You can use guide objects to draw construction lines such as lines passing through a
vanishing point for perspective drawing.

Placing objects onto the Guides Layer
First ensure there is a guide layer in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY, see above. You can
create objects directly on the guides layer by selecting it and creating objects as usual.
You can also cut or copy
objects from another layer
and then paste those objects
into the guides layer. To
paste the objects in the same
relative position on the guides
layer use the keyboard
shortcut "Ctrl + Shift + V".

The Page & Layer Gallery showing a guides layer above
two other layers, and selected.
MOVE TO LAYER IN FRONT and MOVE TO LAYER BEHIND on the ARRANGE menu (or right click
and choose "ARRANGE" > "MOVE TO LAYER IN FRONT/BEHIND") will skip the guides layer
and so cannot be used to move objects onto the guides layer.

Creating a guideline
Guidelines are vertical or horizontal lines and are a quick and easy way to align a series
of objects on the page.

• Turn rulers on ("Ctrl + L").
• Drag from a ruler onto the page.
Or

• Double click on the ruler to create a guideline aligned to the click point.

This automatically creates a guides layer and puts the guidelines on that layer.