The Align & Size dialog box enables
you to align the selected object(s) relatively to a Work Page. If you have selected a group of objects then alignment is applied realtively to a group. The Align feature aligns objects within Work Sheet boundaries indicated with a thin border line inside Work Page area.
This dialog box has two folder tabs - Alignment
and Size. These enable you to change the alignment
and size of object(s).
The Alignment tab
may have one or two subfolder tabs.
If you have selected only one object, the Alignment folder will have only
the Entire selected group subfolder tab.
If you have selected more than one object, then the Alignment folder will have the
Objects inside of group subfolder tab additionally.
The Entire selected group
tab enables you to change alignment of entire selection. If you have
selected one object, then this single object is your selection. If you have selected
more than one object, the program will consider all selected objects together
as one group and apply alignment to this combined object.
This tab contains the Horizontal
and Vertical sections. These
enable you to apply the horizontal and vertical alignments to an object or group of objects.
The Horizontal
section has five options:
- No Changes. No alignment applied.
- Left . Similar to left justify. It aligns an object
to the left of workpage.
- Center. Centers an object on workpage.
- Right . Similar to right justify. It aligns an object
to the right of workpage.
- Manual. Enables 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 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.