Grids

Using the Overlay Editor grids, you can position objects very precisely. The appearance on screen matches the actual output for all formats (except PCL, which uses its own font system), and all images, lines, ellipses, and text objects will be positioned correctly.

Available grids

For each page, there are five different grids available. You can also create your own custom grids. All grids are simultaneously active, but only one of them is visible at a time. Different pages in an overlay can have different grids visible at the same time, and different objects on a page can be snapped to different grids, or to no grid at all.

Default grid for an object

Provided that snapping to grid is activated, each object that you add is snapped to a grid according to the default settings for the particular object type, see Specifying object type settings. If you move an object that is not snapped to the currently visible grid, it will remain snapped to the grid that it was originally snapped to.

You can edit the grid parameters for a selected page, or the grid and snap point settings for a specific object at any time.