Now you can reference guidelines when creating objects. This is the second icon at the top of the docker. If you want to be sure your guidelines won’t be moved or deleted, you can select them and lock them with the Lock icon in the lower right of the Guidelines docker.įor this next section be sure that Snap to Guidelines is enabled. Continue moving and rotating until the guideline is placed correctly. You can click on the guideline again to toggle between position and rotate modes. We’ll make a copy of this guideline and move it a bit to one side. Create the guide using the default X and Y values, then with that guide still selected, enter an angle and click Modify. For an angled guideline, choose that option from the drop down.Click and drag from the ruler into the document, and modify placement as needed.Select an existing guideline and press Ctrl + D to copy it, then move it by dragging or by entering an exact distance.Here are more methods of creating new guidelines: We can select the guideline, change the Y dimensions to 0.855, and click Modify. The guideline is created, but isn’t quite positioned perfectly where we want it, at the top of the light blue box. To place a new horizontal guideline, we set the drop down to Horizontal then enter the Y distance of 0.8” and click Add. At the top of the docker you can set a different line style and color for new guidelines that will be created. The Eye icon at the top of the docker can toggle guides on and off. The existing ones are listed here: 4 horizontal and 4 vertical. The Guidelines docker is one place where you can create guidelines. If the guidelines color is hard to see against your document background, you can select them all in the Objects Docker, and right-click on a different color swatch on the Color palette to change their color. In the Objects docker, these guidelines are on the Master Page layer, where they can be turned on and off with the Eye icon. This business card template has 8 dashed blue lines – these are guidelines.

We’ll look at three dockers that have all the options you’ll need for aligning and positioning objects. With smart drawing tools like guidelines, alignment and positioning options, and live guides, every object can easily go just where it should.Ĭlick on any of the images below to view full-size. When creating objects in CorelDRAW, you don’t have to rely on just your eyes to place things where you want them.

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