If you use the White Fill option, objects without a visible stroke are
not visible against the white layout area.
Using onion-skinning
In Animation documents, you can display more than one frame
(page) at a time. Onion-skinning is the term for displaying multiple
frames as if they are on tracing paper. This view can be helpful for
positioning objects across frames of an animation.
To use onion-skinning, press the onion symbol in the Document Lay-
out palette. Choose an option from the pop-up menu.
Next Frame displays the current frame and the frame after the cur-
rent frame. Previous Frame displays the current frame and the frame
before the current frame. Next & Previous displays the current frame
and one frame before and after the current frame.
To display any number of frames adjacent to the current frame,
choose Custom and enter the number of frames to display.
To show just the current frame, choose No Onion Skinning.
When onion-skinning is active, names of the displayed frames are
tinted in the layout list.
Sharing layers
Sharing a layer means linking a layer to more than one page in a doc-
ument. Since the shared layers are linked, if you modify one layer, all
the linked layers will change. Therefore, shared layers can be used
like additional master pages.
The names of shared layers and objects on them are indicated in italic
type in the Document Layout palette.
Tip
You can share a layer by press-
ing Shift and dragging the lay-
er to another page (except the
master page). Repeat to add
the shared layer to other pag-
es.