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Design Made Easy with Inkscape
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When you move your objects around the page or draw new shapes, the cursor can automatically snap to various parts of the drawing area or other shapes that you have already drawn. This can be handy for alignment, as we will see in later chapters.
Figure 1.23 shows typical snapping behavior – while you are dragging an object to a new location, Inkscape takes the closest point (or line) on your shape to your cursor and suggests places to align or snap it to a nearby shape. You can then simply release the mouse button and the shape will be perfectly aligned:
Figure 1.23 – When you move one object close to another, a snapping point appears
A snapping indicator will appear when an object snaps to another so that you can see what Inkscape is snapping to before you release the mouse button. You can control what Inkscape uses to snap using the Snapping Controls toggle.
Clicking the Snapping Controls toggle enables and disables snapping, while the arrow beside it pops up the Simple Snapping options by default. Clicking the Advanced Options link at the bottom shows a full list of all snapping options in Inkscape, as shown in Figure 1.24:
Figure 1.24 – Expanding the Snapping controls to Advanced mode for all snapping options
The following summarizes what these checkboxes do:
Then, all you need to do is use this snapping toggle to snap your objects to your newly created guides. Use the > key to toggle these lines on and off or select View > Guides. You can also remove a guide by dragging them back to the ruler, or simply hovering your cursor over one and hitting the Delete key.
In the final section of this chapter, we’ll look at Display Transform Control.