MACROMEDIA FreeHand MX, Руководство пользователя

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Using Layers, Symbols, and Styles 291
To add a new layer:
1
Select Window > Layers to display the Layers panel if it’s not already displayed.
2
Click the Layers panel Options menu control and select New.
To duplicate a layer and all objects on it:
1
Select Edit > Select > None or press Tab to deselect all objects. This prevents you from
inadvertently moving selected objects to the new active layer.
Note: You can change the preference that causes selected objects to automatically move to the active layer. For
more information, see “Moving objects and reordering layers” on page 291.
2
In the Layers panel, click a layer name to select it.
3
Click the Layers panel Options menu control and select Duplicate.
To rename a layer:
1
Double-click the layer name in the Layers panel.
2
Type a new name, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).
Selecting layers
You can use the Layers panel to select a layer, making it the active layer. In addition to selecting a
layer, you can easily select all the objects on a layer.
To select a layer and make it active:
1
Select Edit > Select > None or press Tab to deselect all objects. This prevents you from
inadvertently moving selected objects to the new active layer.
Note: You can change the preference that causes selected objects to automatically move to the active layer. For
more information, see “Moving objects and reordering layers” on page 291.
2
Click the layer name.
A pen icon appears to the right of the active layer name. The next object you draw or import
appears on this layer.
To select all objects on a single layer in a multilayer document:
Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Macintosh) and click the layer name.
Moving objects and reordering layers
To edit your artwork, you can change the way objects overlay one another in a document, move
or copy objects from one layer to another, rearrange the order of the layers, and designate layers as
nonprinting.
When copying and pasting objects on layers between FreeHand documents, you can retain the
layer information.
You can group objects from different layers; all objects in the group move to the active layer. If
grouped or joined objects were originally on different layers, you can also return the objects to
their separate layers by ungrouping them. For more information on grouping, see “Grouping
objects” on page 119.