Free-form placement using guidelines

You may want to work in a free-form environment while retaining the ability to align objects, or to move or resize them as a group. You can do this using guidelines.

Guidelines are lines that extend vertically or horizontally from the Design and Preview tabs. Guidelines have a snap property. When you move an object within a guideline's magnetic range, the object snaps, or attaches itself, to the guideline.

• Once an object is snapped to a guideline, if the guideline is moved, the object also moves.
• If you have several objects snapped to a guideline, they all move when the guideline is moved.
• If you have several objects snapped to a guideline on two sides (right and left, or top and bottom) and one of the guidelines is moved, all of the objects resize similarly.

Using guidelines in a free form environment provides flexibility with control. See Using guidelines.