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align the copy using the specified horizontal and vertical offset values. If you select this option, you must enter values
for the vertical and horizontal displacements.
The menu items Edit | Duplicate and Pack Horizontally and Edit | Duplicate and Pack Vertically,override
this setting.
Vertical relative displacement value: Enter the displacement for the copy along the Y axis. Units are as set in the
User Options dialog. This option is available only when you select Relative displacement as the duplicate style.
Horizontal relative displacement value: Enter the displacement for the copy along the X axis. Units are as set in
the User Options dialog. This option is available only when you select Relative displacement as the duplicate style.
Data SELECTION Offsets
Row/child record: Set the number of lines you want to advance in the data page with each duplication of an object
or group. In the case of a database emulation, this is the number of records you want to advance in the record set with
each duplication of an object or group. This permits each copy to display a distinct selection of data. Note that this offset
does not work with objects that use custom data selections.
Column: Set the number of columns you want to advance in the data page with each duplication of an object or group.
This permits each copy to display a distinct selection of data. Note that this offset does not work with objects that use
custom data selections. This offset has no effect in database emulation.
4. Click OK.
Miscellaneous Preferences
The Miscellaneous options include zoom factors, the unit of measure, the object selection mode, a snap to guides option, and
options that determine object dialog behavior.
1. From the PlanetPress Design Button, choose Preferences.
2. If necessary, expand Behavior, and click Miscellaneous.
3. Adjust the object selection mode.
Object selection mode: Use to determine where you must position the pointer on an object or group in order to
select it. This is particularly important when you are selecting overlapping objects and/or groups. Select bounding box
to select an object or group when the pointer is anywhere inside or along the perimeter of the bounding box of the
object. Select Pixel to select an object or group only when the pointer is over the perimeter of the object.
4. Adjust how objects and groups behave with respect to guidelines.
Snap to guidelines: Select to have objects and groups automatically snap to the nearest guide (or guides) when you
move or resize those objects and groups on the page. More precisely, when you move or resize an existing object or
group, as the edge of the object or group approaches a guide, the edge jumps to lie flush with that guide. When you
select this option, existing objects and groups in the document remain in their current position. Only if you subsequently
move or resize them, will they snap to the guides.
5. Adjust the zoom factors. PlanetPress Design uses these values to determine the new zoom when you zoom in or out on
the document page.
Zoom factor: Set the zoom factor PlanetPress Design uses when you zoom in or out on the document page using the
Zoom tool in the Objects toolbar, the Zoom in and Zoom out tools in the Zoom toolbar, and the plus (+) and minus (-)
keys on the numeric keypad. Values can range from 10 to 1000.
Fine zoom factor: Set the fine zoom factor PlanetPress Design uses when you zoom in using SHIFT+ the plus key
(+) on the numeric keypad, or zoom out using SHIFT+ the minus key (-) on the numeric keypad.
6. Adjust the unit of measure you want to use in PlanetPress Design.
Unit of measure: Set the unit of measure. This determines the units PlanetPress Design uses for the rulers and for
all measurements outside of PlanetPress Talk. Units can be centimeters or inches.
7. Adjust the nudge factor.
Nudge factor: Set the magnitude of the resize that occurs when you resize an object or group using keyboard short-
cuts. Units are as set in the unit of measure.
8. Adjust the dialog box options.
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