warbler Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Hi everyone! Forgive me if this has been covered. (I couldn't find it in a cursory search.) Without having to group selected objects, is there a way to align them on the page, (within the page boundaries)? Thanks for the help! Quote Artist / Affinity enthusiast Website | Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Hi Warbler There are a few ways of doing this, depending on what you want your objects to be aligned to, see below! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbler Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 Thanks, Dan, but that's not what I meant. Perhaps I could've been clearer... I want to align that selected group of objects to the page boundaries, without having to group, (command g), it first. You know center the selected objects on the page, etc., (not to each other). Quote Artist / Affinity enthusiast Website | Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 My apologies, do you mean like this? If not, then I'm not entirely sure what you mean, as the alignment options shown in my gif above are set to Spread rather than Selection Boundaries, which is the default. Please note, my objects are not grouped, I simply have selected all of them using a marquee selection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbler Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 This is what I'd like to do: I hope that's clear, and sorry for the confusion. :-) Quote Artist / Affinity enthusiast Website | Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 You don't have to "group" them (that has a specific meaning involving the Layers panel) but I think you do have to "select" them by drawing a marquee around then with the Move tool. Then you can Distribute them horizontally. You may have the icon for that on your toolbar. If not it's available via one of the menu items (but I'm away from my computer so I'm not sure which one). Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Can't you just group them (Ctrl + G) then ungroup them after aligning (Shift + Ctrl + G) ? But anyway, there is no need to do anything like that if you just want to align them to the centre of the page. If snapping is on, select them all and you will get the centre of page, green snapping guide (as shown). warbler 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Hello warbler, With snapping enabled, select the objects and move them so that the center of the set hangs in the center of the page, a green line appears throughout the page when the objects are centered. I hope this will help. EDIT: Oops, I wasn't fast enough! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbler Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 Yes, toltec and reglico, that's it. (I guess you can't do it with the "alignment" box/dialogue on the tool bar.) Thank you all for your help! Quote Artist / Affinity enthusiast Website | Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 warbler, thanks for the feedback! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbler Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share Posted October 4, 2018 2 minutes ago, reglico said: warbler, thanks for the feedback! You all are awesome! Until the next issue... Again, thank you. Quote Artist / Affinity enthusiast Website | Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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