Producing accurate layouts

Freeway provides several features to help you produce consistent layouts and align items accurately:

The guides and grids help you align objects horizontally or vertically, and you can optionally snap objects to the nearest guide or grid. Guides and grids do not appear on the page when it is published.

To show or hide the rulers

Rulers are displayed by default when you open a new document.

The rulers are calibrated in pixels, and by default the origin is at the top left corner of the page.

To change the ruler origin

Crosswires follow the mouse pointer.

To reset the ruler origin to the top left corner of the page

To add guides to the page

To snap to guides or the grid

When you move the edge of an item near to a guide or grid line it will snap to the precise position.

To display guides in front of objects on the page

By default guides are displayed behind graphics and other objects on the page.

To lock the guides

This prevents you from accidentally moving the guides once you have set them up in the correct positions.

To remove a guide

To display a grid

The Grids dialog box allows you to define a vertical and horizontal grid and apply it either to the current page, or to every page in the document:

The Right and Bottom fields will automatically be set to the inset of the grid from the bottom right corner of the page.

To align items to the grid

Each item will be moved so that its top and left borders are on the nearest gridline.

To define margins

To define the color for the guides

To define the snap-to distance for the grid and guides

A recommended value is 5 pixels.


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