Alignment

[lacogada]

Is there a command that would center align these squares left to right, based on page size/width ?

The grid is .5 inch on letter size sheet.
They would have to move to right .25 inch to be centered.

https://www.pl32.com/forum3/download/fi ... ew&id=8639

[Hoogo]

If they are all in a group, then you can try "View > Toolbars > Alignment" with that group. Or use the layer tool Q (the normal arrow), it has all these alignments and more in its tool settings anyways.

In your special case, "View > Toolbars > Guides" It has a button "Align to auto guides". Enable it,select all 3 rectangles and move them roughly to the right location, they will snap at the center.

[Herbert123]

As Hoogo wrote: group the three, then use the layer tool with this option:

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[lacogada]

That worked for me Hoogoo, thanks.

Herbert123 the icon you pointed to your image stacks the squares on top each other for me.

[Hoogo]

Herbert123 the icon you pointed to your image stacks the squares on top each other for me.

He put all the squares into a group, and then aligned that group. That way they are all treated like one object, not 3 separate ones.

[shijan]

My guess the question was how to auto align/arrange somehow with equal spaces between rectangles and page edges. Guess currently it is impossible with single click. With current tools you can only arrange objects between other objects and align group of objects to center of the document. It is impossible to make same distance between objects and page edges in single click.

Here is another option. You can automatically generate Guides and manually snap each object to center of each guide like this. But in this case space between page edge and object still be not the same as between objects:

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[lacogada]

Herbert123 the icon you pointed to your image stacks the squares on top each other for me.

He put all the squares into a group, and then aligned that group. That way they are all treated like one object, not 3 separate ones.

My error ... I did not group thanks Hoogoo and Hebert123.

[lacogada]

My guess the question was how to auto align/arrange somehow with equal spaces between rectangles and page edges. Guess currently it is impossible with single click. With current tools you can only arrange objects between other objects and align group of objects to center of the document. It is impossible to make same distance between objects and page edges in single click.

Here is another option. You can automatically generate Guides and manually snap each object to center of each guide like this. But in this case space between page edge and object still be not the same as between objects:
Screen Shot 2024-10-09 at 4.45.02 PM.jpg
Screen Shot 2024-10-09 at 4.45.44 PM.jpg

Thank for all info, I will study or print out.

[shijan]

Also i can recommend always enable "Use Pixel Grid". If "Use Pixel Grid" disabled, align will always use pure center of the layer and in some situations may move layer by half pixel and so it became blurry.

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[lacogada]

Also i can recommend always enable "Use Pixel Grid". If "Use Pixel Grid" disabled, align will always use pure center of the layer and in some situations may move layer by half pixel and so it became blurry.

I had put a icon on toolbar to "show grid "

I've looked at "pixel grid" but it does not show a grid, so not understanding what the differences are.
If I dbl click on the icon, they both seem to open the same dialog.

Thanks

[shijan]

Grid is just a a custom sized grid. You can set the size of that grid in Preferences.
Pixel Grid is a special grid for each pixel.

There are also toggles "Snap To Grid" and "Snap to Pixel Grid". All raster graphic editors usually use Snap to Pixel Grid by default and don't allow movements smaller that pixel size. PhotoLine is a raster and vector editor so it provide you an option Snap to Pixel Grid.

[lacogada]

Grid is just a a custom sized grid. You can set the size of that grid in Preferences.
Pixel Grid is a special grid for each pixel.

There are also toggles "Snap To Grid" and "Snap to Pixel Grid". All raster graphic editors usually use Snap to Pixel Grid by default and don't allow movements smaller that pixel size. PhotoLine is a raster and vector editor so it provide you an option Snap to Pixel Grid.

Thank for the explanation ... will check it out.