Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 67)

59 USING INDESIGN CS4
Layout
Change ruler guide stacking order
By default, ruler guides appear in front of all other guides and objects. However, some ruler guides may block your
view of such objects as lines with narrow stroke widths. You can change the Guides in Back preference to display ruler
guides in front of or behind all other objects. However, regardless of the Guides in Back setting, objects and ruler
guides are always in front of margin and column guides. Also, although putting guides on different layers organizes
them structurally, it does not affect their visual stacking order—the Guides in Back preference stacks all ruler guides
as a single set in relation to all page objects.
Default stacking order
A. Ruler guides B. Page objects C. Margin and column guides D. Page
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard
(Mac OS).
2 Select Guides in Back, and click OK.
Snap objects to guides and grids
To precisely align objects to guides, use the Snap To Guides and Snap To Document Grid commands. Object edges
will snap to (be pulled toward) the nearest grid intersection or guide when you draw, move, or resize the objects.
The exact range within which an object snaps to guides is called the snap-to zone, which you can adjust. When you
select both the Snap To Guides and the Snap To Document Grid commands, the grid takes precedence.
Keep the following guidelines in mind as you align objects to guides and grids:
• To snap an object to a guide, drag an object toward a guide until one or more of the object’s edges is within the
guide’s snap-to zone.
• Guides must be visible for objects to snap to them. However, objects can snap to the document and baseline grids
whether the grids are visible or not.
• Objects on one layer snap to ruler guides visible on any other layer. If you don’t want objects to snap to guides on
a certain layer, hide that layer’s guides.
• For the baselines of text to snap to the baseline grid, press the Align to Baseline Grid button for individual
paragraphs or paragraph styles.
1 Choose View > Grids & Guides and make sure that Snaps To Guides is selected (checked).
Note: The Snap To Guides command controls both snapping to guides and snapping to the baseline grid.
2 To specify the snap-to zone, choose Edit > Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard (Windows) or InDesign >
Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard (Mac OS), type a value for Snap To Zone, and click OK. The Snap To Zone
value is always in pixels.
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Updated 18 June 2009