Snapping

Snapping simplifies the positioning of crop areas, selection areas, and layer content (pixel or vector) by 'magnetizing' areas or content to other content or page elements (page edges, etc.).

Snapping

Snapping for accurate crop and selection areas

To precisely create the above areas you can use snapping to position to previously placed guides or to the page edge itself.

Simply drag out your crop or selection area until its edge meets the positioned guide or page edge.

Snapping for vector lines, shapes, and text

Snapping causes images, brush strokes, lines, shapes, and selection areas to align to nearby grid lines, guides 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).

Snapping for vector layers

To help understand snapping behavior, colored dynamic guides and target nodes display when you snap to objects. The colors used are:

Snapping candidates

Snapping candidates are layer contents which are available for you to snap to. You can set how candidates are created using the following settings:

Snapping To activate/deactivate snapping:

Snapping presets for vector layers

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.

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.

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

To customize 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 customized in the process.

Snapping options
The range of snapping options.

The following options are available:

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