The Align & Size dialog box enables you to align selected object(s)
relatively to a Work Page. If you have selected a group of objects, then alignment is
applied relatively to the group. The Align feature aligns objects within the Work
Sheet boundaries indicated with a thin border line inside the Work Page area.
This dialog box has two folder tabs, Alignment and Size. These enable you to change alignment and size of object(s).
The Alignment folder tab may have one or two subfolder
tabs. If you have selected only one object, the Alignment tab will have only the Entire selected group subfolder tab. If you have selected more
than one object, then the Alignment folder tab will additionally have the Objects inside of group subfolder tab.
The Entire selected group tab enables you to change
alignment of your entire selection. If you have selected only one object, then this single
object is your selection. If you have selected more than one object, the program will
consider all selected objects as one group and apply alignment to this combined object.
This tab contains Horizontal and Vertical sections. These enable you to apply horizontal and
vertical alignments to an object or group of objects.
The Horizontal section has five options:
- No Changes. No alignment applied.
- Left. Aligns an object to the left of workpage.
- Center. Centers an object on workpage.
- Right. Aligns an object to the right of workpage.
- Manual. Enables you to enter customized alignment number in measurement units set
in Preferences dialog box. (Click Preferences
from the File menu to change these settings.) This number defines an offset from
the left edge of workpage.
The Vertical section has five options:
- No Changes. No alignments applied.
- Top. Aligns an object to the top of workpage.
- Center. Centers an object on workpage.
- Bottom. Aligns an object to the bottom of workpage.
- Manual. Enables you to enter customized alignment number in measurement units set
in the Preferences dialog box. (Click Preferences
from the File menu to change these settings.) This number defines an offset from
the top of workpage.
The Objects inside of group tab enables you to apply alignments to objects
inside the group relatively to the group itself. This subfolder tab is displayed when you
select more than one object. This tab has two sections - Horizontal
and Vertical. These enable you to apply horizontal and
vertical alignments to the objects selected as a group.
In the Horizontal section you have five options:
- No Changes. No alignments applied.
- Left. Aligns all the objects to the left border of the group.
- Center. Centers all the objects in the selected area.
- Right. Aligns all the objects to the right border of the group.
- Sequenced. Aligns objects in a sequence one after another. Sequence has Equalize
and Manual options. If you select the Equalize option, the two outermost objects stay in
their positions, and the remaining objects are placed in between equidistantly one from
another. If you select the Manual option, you can set the distance between the objects
manually. Distance is set in current measurement units. You can set the measurement units
from the Preferences dialog box.
The Vertical section has five options:
- No Changes. No alignments applied.
- Top. Aligns all the objects to the top of selected group area.
- Center. Centers all the objects in the selected area.
- Bottom. Aligns all the objects to the bottom of selected area.
- Sequenced. Aligns objects in a sequence one after another. Sequence has Equalize
and Manual options. If you select the Equalize option, the two outermost objects stay in
their positions, and the remaining objects are placed in between equidistantly one from
another. If you select the Manual option, you can set the distance between the objects
manually. Distance is set in current measurement units. You can set the measurement units
from the Preferences dialog box.
The Size tab has two sections - Horizontal and Vertical. These enable you to change the horizontal and vertical
sizes of the object. The Horizontal section has five
options:
- No Changes. No size changes applied.
- Narrowest Object. Sets width of all the objects in the selection equal to width
of the narrowest object. This option is not available when only one object selected.
- Widest Object. Sets width of all the objects in the selection equal to width of
the widest object. This option is not available when only one object selected.
- Sheet Width. Sets the width of object equal to the work sheet width. If more than
one object is selected, then selection is treated as a single object.
- Manual. Enables you to set width of object manually. If more than one object is
selected, then selection is treated as a single object. Width is set in current
measurement units. You can set the measurement units from the Preferences
dialog box.
The Vertical section has five options:
- No Changes. No size changes applied.
- Shortest Object. Sets height of all the objects equal to height of the shortest
object. This option is not available when only one object is selected.
- Largest Object. Sets height of all the objects equal to height of the tallest
object. This option is not available when only one object is selected.
- Sheet Height. Sets height of the object equal to height of work sheet. If more
than one object is selected, then selected group is treated as a single object.
- Manual. Enables you to set height of object manually. If more than one object is
selected, then selected group is treated as a single object. Height is set in current
measurement units. You can set the measurement units from the Preferences
dialog box.
The Keep Aspect Ratio check box is used to keep the aspect ratio of selection
the same. This is important especially in case of raster images. They may lose clarity if
aspect ratio is changed. Check this box when selecting the other options to keep aspect
ratio the same.
Note: When you are processing only a single object i.e. the Entire selected
group is the only visible subfolder tab, some options in the Horizontal
and Vertical sections of the Size tab become meaningless. Those
options are grayed i.e. are inactive.