4.5 Working with Page Objects - PrintMaster 7 User Guide

Working with Page Objects

A Page Object is anything that you place on a page, such as photos, shapes, text, etc.

Selecting Objects

Left-click an object to select it.

· A Light gray box with small square handles will appear at the object’s edges.

· Dragging the corner handles resizes the object proportionally.

· Dragging side handles will stretch or reduce an individual side.

· Corner handles are also used to rotate objects, when your cursor is a curved arrow.

· You may select multiple objects by holding the Shift key.

· You may deselect a single object by clicking on it again while holding Shift.

· You may select all objects by going to the Arrange menu > Select All.

Moving Objects

1. Left-click and hold on the selected object.

2. Drag from the center of the object to adjust the position.

3. After your have it positioned let go of the mouse button.

· Moving multiple objects simultaneously is the same. Hold shift to select multiple objects then drag from the center of a selected object to move them.

Aligning Objects

Rulers - Rulers can be helpful with alignment, positioning, and trim or bleed areas.

1. To enable rulers go to the View menu > Rulers. (or click on the ruler icon)

· To adjust the ruler units (inch, cm, pixel) go to Preferences > Ruler.

Page Guides ensure accuracy when aligning objects use page guides.

1. To use Guides enable Rulers View > Rulers. (or click the Ruler icon)

2. Enable Guides from the View menu > Show Guides. (or click the Guides icon)

3. Position your cursor over the top or side ruler, then left-click to place a guide.

· You may adjust the position of the guide by placing dragging the line along the ruler.

· You may also add multiple guides by left-clicking other locations along the ruler.

· To remove a guide drag it off of the ruler bar, or disable it from View > Show Guides.

· Snap to Guide aligns the edge of objects with the closest guide when moved.

· Guides will not appear in the final project output. (print, jpg, etc.)

Align Menu- Another way to align objects is with the Align menu item.

1. After selecting one or more objects, go to the Arrange menu > Align.

2. Choose from the list of available alignment options in the drop down:

· Top: Aligns all selected objects to the topmost object on the page.

· Middle: Lines up the vertical middle of each selected object.

· Bottom: Aligns all selected objects to the bottommost object on the page.

· Left: Aligns all selected objects to the leftmost object on the page.

· Center: Lines up the horizontal center of each selected object.

· Right: Aligns all selected objects to the rightmost object on the page.

· Center Vertical on Page: Places selected objects in the vertical center of the page.

· Center Horizontal on Page: Places objects in the horizontal center of the page.

· Space Evenly - Horizontal: Arranges the currently selected objects so that they all have the same amount of horizontal space between them.

· Space Evenly - Vertical: Arranges the currently selected objects so that they all have the same amount of vertical space between them.

Grouping Objects

Grouping objects will fix the objects position in relation to grouped objects. This makes it easy to move, rotate, and resize multiple objects at once.

1. To group objects hold shift and select more than one object on the page.

2. Then go to the Arrange menu > Group.

· Move, resize, and rotate grouped objects similar to individual objects.

· To ungroup the selected group go to the Arrange menu > Ungroup.

Cut, Copy, and Paste

Allow you to remove, duplicate, or move objects between pages,