Snapping

Snapping simplifies the positioning of new and existing objects by 'magnetising' moved or resized objects to other objects or document elements.

Snapping

Snapping causes images, brush strokes, lines, shapes, and selection areas to align to nearby grid lines, guides, margins, artboards or spreads, or any combination of these. You can also snap to object bounding boxes, key points on shapes and to an object's geometry. Text can also snap to the baseline of other text (the first line only for text frames) and artistic text objects can snap to the height of previously created artistic text.

To help understand snapping behaviour, coloured dynamic guides and target nodes display when you snap to objects. The colours used are:

Snapping candidates

Snapping candidates are page objects which are available for you to snap to. You can set how candidates are determined using the following settings:

Snapping To activate/deactivate snapping:

Snapping presets

A powerful and comprehensive set of snapping options are available to you. To make snapping setup quick and easy, one of several snapping presets can be chosen which group recommended snapping options according to how you plan to work (e.g., for curve drawing, etc.).

Snapping To select a snapping preset:
  1. Open the Snapping menu (to the right of the Snapping button).
  2. Select Snapping Options.
  3. From the Preset menu, select a preset.

The remaining settings will change depending on the chosen preset. The options will be in effect immediately.

Customise any chosen snapping preset by changing any of its settings.

To customise a snapping preset:
  1. Select a preset on which to base your new snapping options.
  2. Enable/disable individual options to override the current preset's options.

The options will be in effect immediately.

Snapping options

Individual snapping options can be switched on or off to suit your needs, drawing style, and the project you are working on. The preset that you initially adopted will be customised in the process.

Snapping options
The range of snapping options.

The following options are available:

SEE ALSO: