MEDIASTUDIO PRO USER GUIDE316Guides are reference lines that you pull out from either the horizontal orvertical rulers. When you pull out a guide, it appears as a dotted line whichyou can use to mark certain areas within the edit window. You can haveany number of guides which can be easily repositioned by dragging onthem. To remove a guide, drag it off the edge of the edit window using theObject tool.Customizing the grid and guidesThe default color for grid points and guides are red and blue respectively.Depending on your background, as well as the color of your objects, youmay want to change these to make them easier to identify. To do this,click View: Grid & Guide Options to open the Grid & Guide Optionsdialog box. Here you can specify the color for both the grid points andguidelines as well as control the horizontal and vertical spacing betweeneach point in the grid. If you want your objects to "snap to" grid points orguides, select the Snap to distance option and specify the range withinwhich a snap should occur. For example, a range of 5 pixels pulls anobject to a grid point whenever it is placed within 5 pixels of that gridpoint’s position.Notes:•"Snap to" works on the rectangular area of an object’s bounding box and not thepath of the object itself.•For objects to snap to grid points and guides, you need to first select the Edit:Snap to Guides and Snap to grid commands.Aligning objectsWhile the above methods allow you to accurately place objects within anedit window, you may also want to align a group of objects so that theyappear along the same horizontal or vertical plane. To do this, CG Infinityprovides the Edit: Align command which opens the Align dialog box.Here you can select to position objects vertically in columns or horizon-tally in rows. You can also specify to have the objects appear to the left,center or right of each other.
