Snap-to-Guide Tricks for QuarkXPress

Wed, May 28, 2008

Tip

In QuarkXPress, a line will snap to a guide at the line’s center, rather than at the edge of its stroke. For thick rules, this can be either Good or Bad. To snap the line using the edge of its stroke, select another object along with it before dragging both items.
(Trick: create a temporary item, then delete it after moving the line.)

Snap-to-Guide

The opposite behavior occurs when moving a Bézier path to a guide: the edge of its stroke snaps to the guide. To force the center of the path itself to snap, double-click one of its anchor points and then drag that anchor point to the guide. The entire path will move as you drag.

This post was written by:

Jay Nelson - who has written 507 posts on Planet Quark.

Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7, and the QuarkXPress 7 training at Lynda.com. In addition, Jay writes for several other publications and speaks at industry events.

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