Operation Manual

Chapter 12: The Title Editor 217
Object layout buttons
The two left buttons in this cluster are
for grouping and ungrouping Title
Editor objects. The first button is available when
multiple objects are selected. Its action is to link the
objects into a group – a composite object that is treated
as a single entity by editing operations. When a group
is selected, all its control points are visible
simultaneously, and any of them may be used to
manipulate the group.
A grouping of three objects
The second button, which is available whenever a
group object is selected, separates the group into its
constituent objects.
Although it is possible to “group groups”, grouping is
always just one level deep, so ungrouping a supergroup
will result in all the constituent objects being
individuals again.
The next button opens a pop-out menu of 11 operations
that apply only to groups. The first six let you align a
set of objects along any one of their four edges or either
of their two mid-lines. The next pair of commands
provides for spacing the objects at equal intervals in