Operation Manual

VIDEOGRAPHICS LAB USER GUIDE

Guides are reference lines that you pull out from either the horizontal or

vertical rulers. When you pull out a guide, it appears as a dotted line which

you can use to mark certain areas within the edit window. You can have

any number of guides which can be easily repositioned by dragging on

them. To remove a guide, drag it off the edge of the edit window using the

Object tool.

Customizing the grid and guides

The default color for grid points and guides are red and blue respectively.

Depending on your background, as well as the color of your objects, you

may want to change these to make them easier to identify. To do this, click

View: Grid & Guide Options to open the Grid & Guide Options dialog

box. Here you can specify the color for both the grid points and guidelines

as well as control the horizontal and vertical spacing between each point in

the grid. If you want your objects to "snap to" grid points or guides, select

the Snap to distance option and specify the range within which a snap

should occur. For example, a range of 5 pixels pulls an object to a grid

point whenever it is placed within 5 pixels of that grid point’s position.

Notes:

• "Snap to" works on the rectangular area of an object’s bounding box and not the

path 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 objects

While the above methods allow you to accurately place objects within an

edit window, you may also want to align a group of objects so that they

appear along the same horizontal or vertical plane. To do this, CG Infinity

provides the Edit: Align command which opens the Align dialog box. Here

you can select to position objects vertically in columns or horizontally in

rows. You can also specify to have the objects appear to the left, center or

right of each other.