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)
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