Align tool problems

[Adriandw]

When I try to align two or more items in Publisher (2.0.4, MacOS Ventura 13.2.1, M1 Max MacBook Pro 14" )
the Align to: option is greyed out and not selectable.
This is consistent across now documents and old documents.

If I click on, for example, the icon to centre in a vertical line, the alignment works relative to the Spread Margin which is not at all what I want.

Then the Align to: setting becomes selectable and I can choose Align to Selection Bounds.
So what should have been a simple operation to fine tune alignment becomes a bigger operation because I have to get the objects back from where they were moved.

 

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

I never had this problem with Publisher 1.

 

[Dan C]

Hi Adriandw,

This is by design, the whole process is non destructive and works the same was as in v1.

As you have to enable it, there has to be some kind of alignment selected. Once disabled it will will stay on the selected alignment for ease of toggling.

Lee