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516 Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts

Apply soft group (Ctrl+Alt+G)
Or right click and choose APPLY SOFT GROUP.

Make the selected objects form a soft group. Unlike groups, soft groups can include
objects on different layers. Refer to Object Handling (on page 118) for details.

Remove soft group (Ctrl+Alt+U)
Or right click and choose REMOVE SOFT GROUP.

Disband the selected soft group, so the objects are separately selectable objects again.

Flatten photo group
Converts a photo group to a single bitmap.

Alignment (Ctrl+Shift+L)
Or right click and choose ALIGN.

Used to align several objects. Has no effect when a single object is selected (refer to
Object Handling (on page 119) for more information).

Combine Shapes (Arrange control bar)
The Combine Shapes sub-menu lets you:

• Add shapes together.
• Or subtract the top shape from the other shapes.
• Or discard parts of other shapes not covered by the top shape.
• Or use the top shape to slice the other shapes.
• Or use intersecting shapes to create slices of the grouped shapes.
Only shapes in the selection are combined. Unselected shapes do not change (refer to
chapter Shape handling (on page 160) for more information).
Create Bitmap Copy (Ctrl+Shift+C)

CREATE BITMAP COPY creates a bitmap version (on page 380) of the selected objects.

Fit Text to Curve/Remove Text From Curve
Or right click and choose FIT TEXT TO CURVE/REMOVE TEXT FROM CURVE.
Lets you fit a line of text to an arbitrary curve or remove text from a curve (see Text
Handling for more information).

Repelling and Anchoring
Or right click and choose REPEL TEXT UNDER, ANCHOR TO TEXT or REPELLING AND
ANCHORING.