Authoring Stage Tips

A variety of tips for the SmartBuilder authoring stage: Blue lines when dragging or resizing objects to help align things. Arrow keys to nudge objects 10px. Ctrl+Arrows to nudge objects 1px. Copy Coordinates and Paste Coordinates (or Paste Size (or Paste Coordinates AND Size)). Alignment tools. Alt + A, T to quickly Align Top. Alignment, Center Horizontally or Vertically. You can add a Line on the Master and set it to Start Visible = False to create your own guidelines. Grid is 10px by default, and is used for dragging, resizing, and nudging. It can be adjusted in the Edit, Preferences, Grid menu. It can also be shown or hidden. Snap Objects to Objects and Snap Objects to Grid can be turned off in the Edit menu. Hold Alt when resizing or dragging to bypass the grid. Hold Ctrl when resizing to resize from center. Hold Shift while dragging to align to 45 degree angles (mostly just to move things straight up and down or side to side). Copy and Paste Format.