Align palette
Choose Object > Align > Show
Palette to open the palette.
Select the objects you want to
arrange. Click Apply to imple-
ment the current settings.
Align to: Choose the refer-
ence for alignment and distri-
bution:
Each Other: With respect to
the other selected objects.
Grid: To the nearest grid incre-
ment.
Printable Area: With respect
to the printer page or tile.
Document: To a specified
location in the document. If
you center an object in a multi-
page illustration, portions can
appear on multiple tiles.
In the Vertical and Horizontal
areas, click buttons for align-
ment and distribution options.
Active buttons are recessed.
You can select an alignment or
distribution option, but not
both, in each area.
A For no change in position,
click the first button in either the
Vertical or Horizontal area.
Vertical Align. (Left to right)
A None
B Top
C Center
D Bottom
E Edge-to-edge
Vertical Distribute. Inside,
top, center, and bottom.
Horizontal Align. (Left to right)
F
Left
G Center
H Right
I
Edge-to-edge.
Horizontal Distribute. Inside,
left, center, and right.
Outside Pen. Check this
option to use the outside edge
of objects strokes when align-
ing or distributing objects.
Otherwise, Canvas uses the
center of the stroke.
Edge-to-edge alignment
(horizontal & vertical). When
applying either horizontal or
vertical edge-to-edge align-
ment, the order of the aligned
objects depends on the order
in which the objects were cre-
ated; i.e., the object furthest to
the left or at the very top in an
edge-to-edge alignment was
created first.
Edge-to-edge aligns objects
according to their minimal
bounding rectangles.
A
A
Align to Each Other
Align to
Page
Align to Grid
B C D E
F G H I
Edge-to-Edge (Horizontal)