Gobe Productive User's Guide - Item Alignment

- Working in the graphics environment
- Drawing tools
- Pre-defined Shapes
- Pen Attributes
- Fill Color
- Text Color
- Customizing inks
- Customizing ink sets
- Transparency
- Moving items
- Resizing & Rotating items
- Aligning Items
- Reshaping, reorienting & smoothing shapes
- Arranging, grouping & locking items
- Creating Outlines
- Views & Layers
- Styles

# Aligning Items

If you select two or more objects, the graphics environment can align the items for you. For example, if you draw three rectangles and want all three to be aligned as in the picture below:

Use the different alignment features to instruct the system how to align the shapes for you. You can align both shapes and frames.

## To Align Items

1. Place the items in the general order you want them to appear.
2. Select the items you want to align. You can either draw a selection box around the items you want to align, or hold down the [SHIFT] key and click on the items.
3. Select Align Objects from the Arrange menu. The Align Objects dialog box is displayed.
4. Select the Top to Bottom alignment for the items. If you do not want to change the top to bottom alignment, leave the None option selected. The Sample box displays a representation of the alignment style.
5. Select the Left to Right alignment option for the items. If you do not want to change the left to right alignment, leave the None option selected. The Sample box displays a representation of the alignment style.
6. Click OK when finished. The selected objects are aligned based on the options you selected in the Align Objects dialog box.

| Note: The objects in the Sample box are intended for visual references only. The items are not a true representation of the items you have selected.

The alignment tools on the PartBar also perform the same alignment commands:

> - Left to right: align items to top edges.

> - Left to right: align items to centers .

> - Left to right: align items to bottom edges.

> - Left to right: equally space items.

> - Top to bottom: align items to left edge.

> - Top to bottom: align items to centers.

> - Top to bottom: align items to right edge.

> - Top to bottom: equally space items.

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