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116 Object Handling

1. Right click in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY and choose PROPERTIES.
2. If necessary, click the GUIDES tab.
3. Select horizontal or vertical.
4. Click NEW.
5. Type in the required position.

Deleting a guideline
Using the SELECTOR TOOL drag the guideline onto the appropriate ruler (the vertical ruler
for vertical guidelines, horizontal ruler for horizontal).

Or, right click on the guideline and then choose DELETE.

Summary of shortcuts on the numeric keypad

+ Makes a copy while dragging, resizing, skewing, and so on. The original object
doesn‘t change.
/ Toggles leaving line widths unchanged during scaling and scaling with changing
line widths.
- Toggles leaving fills unchanged during moves, scaling, skewing, etc.
* Toggles object magnetic snap on and off.
2 Toggles snap to guides on and off.
. Toggles snap to grid on and off.

Conflicts in page layouts

When too many objects on the page are trying to affect each other's positions or sizes in
too many ways an error message is displayed which says...

"THE REQUESTED CHANGE IN PAGE LAYOUT IS TOO COMPLEX TO PROCESS. PLEASE SIMPLIFY
THE PAGE AND TRY AGAIN"

To fix this, it is necessary to reduce the interactions between objects on the page. This
means doing things like:

• Grouping (on page 117) or Soft-grouping things that should move together
• Removing push where it's not needed especially on objects that are also stretching or
have "Footer" or "Auto" (on page 136) page positions
• Setting page position to "Fixed" or "Footer"
• Removing stretching markup
• Removing repelling (on page 236)