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Freeway Reference: Working with Pages

Resetting the ruler origin

To reset the ruler origin to the top left corner of the page when finished, simply double-click on the ruler origin area at the top left

corner of the window.

Ruler guides

Freeway allows you to set up non-publishing guides to help you position items when laying out a page. These lines can be visible or

hidden as you work but they are not published to your web pages. You can make objects snap into alignment with ruler guides.

Placing a ruler guide

To place a ruler guide on a page:

1. Make sure that the rulers are visible along the top and left-hand edges of the window. If they

are not, choose Show Rulers from the View menu.

2. Make sure guides are visible. If they are not, choose Guides from the View menu.

3. To place a vertical guide, point at the vertical ruler along the left-hand edge of the page area,

hold the mouse button down and drag the pointer onto the page. To place a horizontal guide,

point at the horizontal ruler along the top edge of the page area, hold the mouse button

down and drag the pointer onto the page. A solid black line in the ruler indicates the current

position of the guide as you drag.

4. When you reach the position you want, release the mouse button to place the guide.

Creating guides

FW Pro only

The Create Guides dialog allows you to set guides for a page, and automatically calculates the correct widths and heights for layouts

with a fixed number of columns or rows, with or without a gutter.

1. Choose Create Guides… from the Page menu.

2. Specify the number of rows and columns you want.

3. Select the From Margins checkbox if you want guide positions to be relative to page margins.

4. Enter values for row or column gutters if required.

5. Click OK to confirm your changes.

Freeway automatically updates the page display to show guides as they are created. If you cancel the dialog, any guides that have

been created in this way will be removed.

Moving a ruler guide with the mouse

Use the Selection tool to drag the guide to the new position, then release the mouse.

When you try to move a guide, you may select a nearby item or rule instead. If this happens, try dragging from somewhere else along

the guide first.

If you want to drag a guide to a new part of the page and have the view scroll to follow it, hold down the Shift key as you drag.

Repositioning ruler guides numerically

Double-click on an existing ruler guide to display the Guide dialog box. Type in a new value

for the position of the guide relative to the ruler origin and click OK. There is no need to

enter “px” in the text field as Freeway will automatically add the measurement when the OK

button is clicked.

Removing a ruler guide

To remove a ruler guide from a page, use the Selection tool to drag the guide off the page in any direction. Alternatively, double-click

on the ruler guide to display the Guide dialog box, and click on the Remove button.

To remove all guides from a page (in Freeway Pro), choose Remove Guides from the Page menu.

Snapping to guides

You can make guides “magnetic”, so that when you move items within a certain distance of a guide or gridline, they snap into

alignment.

Snapping to guides is on by default, but you can turn it off if necessary by deselecting Snap to Guides from the View menu.

Altering the magnetic range of guides

and grids

FW Pro only

The magnetic distance is set to 5 pixels by default for both guides and grids but can be changed using the Preferences dialog box:

1. Choose Preferences… from the application menu.

2. Click on the Grids & Guides button.

3. Enter a value in pixels in the Magnetic range text box in either the Guides section or the Grids section.

4. Click OK.

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