Use rulers use guides use the grid, Use rulers, Use guides – Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 User Manual
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In the Tools panel, select the Hand tool and drag the Stage. To temporarily switch between another tool and the Hand tool, hold down the
Spacebar and click the tool in the Tools panel.
Use rulers
When rulers show, they appear along the top and left sides of the document. You can change the unit of measure used in the rulers from the
default of pixels to another unit. When you move an element on the Stage with the rulers displayed, lines indicating the element’s dimensions
appear on the rulers.
To show or hide rulers, select View > Rulers.
To specify the rulers’ unit of measure for a document, select Modify > Document, and select a unit from the Ruler Units menu.
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.
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.
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.
To move a guide, click anywhere on the ruler with the Selection tool and drag the guide to the desired place on the Stage.
To remove a guide, use the Selection tool with guides unlocked to drag the guide to the horizontal or vertical ruler.
To lock guides, select View > Guides > Lock Guides or use the Lock Guides option in the Edit Guides (View > Guides > Edit Guides) dialog
box.
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.
Set guide preferences
1. Select View > Guides > Edit Guides and do any of the following:
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.
To display or hide guides, select or deselect Show Guides.
To turn snapping to guides on or off, select or deselect Snap To Guides.
Select or deselect Lock Guides.
To set Snap Accuracy, select an option from the pop-up menu.
To remove all guides, click Clear All. Clear All removes all guides from the current scene.
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
Do one of the following:
Select View > Grid > Show Grid.
Press Control+'' (quote) (Windows) or Command+'' (quote) (Macintosh).
Turn snapping to grid lines on or off
Select View > Snapping > Snap to Grid.
Set grid preferences
1. Select View > Grid > Edit Grid and select from the options.
2. To save the current settings as the default, click Save Default.
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