FLASH CS3
User Guide
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Use guides
When rulers show (View
> Rulers), you can drag horizontal and vertical guides from the rulers onto the Stage.
When you create nested timelines, draggable guides appear on the Stage only when the Timeline in which they were
created is active.
To create custom guides or irregular guides, use guide layers.
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To display or hide the drawing guides, select View
>
Guides > Show Guides.
Note:
If the grid is visible and Snap to Grid is turned on when you create guides, guides snap to the grid.
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To turn snapping to guides on or off, select View
>
Snapping > Snap to Guides.
Note:
Snapping to guides takes precedence over snapping to the grid in places where guides fall between grid lines.
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To move a guide, click anywhere on the ruler with the Selection tool and drag the guide to the desired place on the
Stage.
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To remove a guide, use the Selection tool with guides unlocked to drag the guide to the horizontal or vertical ruler.
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To lock guides, select View
>
Guides > Lock Guides or use the Lock Guides option in the Edit Guides (View
>
Guides > Edit Guides) dialog box.
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To clear guides, select View
>
Guides > Clear Guides. If you are in document-editing mode, all guides in the
document are cleared. If you are in symbol-editing mode, only guides used in symbols are cleared.
See also
“Use guide layers” on page 39
Set guide preferences
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Select View
>
Guides > Edit Guides and do any of the following:
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To set Color, click the triangle in the color box and select a guide line color from the palette. The default guide
color is green.
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To display or hide guides, select or deselect Show Guides.
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To turn snapping to guides on or off, select or deselect Snap To Guides.
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Select or deselect Lock Guides.
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To set Snap Accuracy, select an option from the pop-up menu.
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To remove all guides, click Clear All. Clear All removes all guides from the current scene.
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To save the current settings as the default, click Save Default.
2
Click OK.
Use the grid
The grid appears in a document as a set of lines behind the artwork in all scenes.
Display or hide the drawing grid
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Do one of the following:
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Select View
>
Grid
> Show Grid.
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Press '' (quote) (Windows) or '' (quote) (Macintosh).
