I'm new to Flexi 7.0, been using Inspire since it's inception. With Flexi, I'm having trouble trying to "grab" a text object/box and then center it over a guideline. In Inspire, when you click on the text, it brings up the bounding box and stretch points. You can grab the center "point" and have that snap to a guideline, and that text is centered on the guideline.
In Flexi, there is no "center" point when you select objects, just the outer perimeter points. If you click on the text itself to select it to move it, it will only allow you to snap that exact point on the character to the guideline, not the whole text object itself.
Anyone's help would be appreciated. Do you have to activate that center "point" in a preference somewhere, or am I missing something?
Thanks!
-------------------- Jason Bruler Portland, OR Posts: 12 | From: Portland, OR | Registered: Mar 2003
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Sorry Jason, I don't use flexi but in Signlab I use the align feature. (I think it is in the arrange menu) You can change the settings in alignment to center, right, left, up, down, etc. and then use hot keys to use.
Don't know if this will help you or not. Welcome to the BB!
Suelynn
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Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, SK Canada Posts: 2863 | From: Carnduff, SK Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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I can't believe no one is using Flexi 7.0 and has a working answer for this "problem". I'm really starting to get irritated with Flexi. This centering concept was such an important feature to me in Inspire 1.6.
(Which, by the way, ScanVec/Amiable, I wish you would get off your non-Inspire supporting ('We've moved to the Flexi Platform') asses and simply update the Inspire code to support the Windows XP Hasp driver (which I was unoffically told by one of your employees is the *ONLY* reason Inspire won't run on XP), but that's another story... And so is abandoning a program before it truly worked correctly "An unresolved internal error has occurred...")
Where is that center "grab point" in Flexi???
How can I select a group of text or an object and center it to a guideline without that center grab point???
Arrgh.
[ April 04, 2003, 08:53 PM: Message edited by: Jason Bruler ]
-------------------- Jason Bruler Portland, OR Posts: 12 | From: Portland, OR | Registered: Mar 2003
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I don't really understand your centering question, but Flexi is the most easy centering and justifying program out there.
To Center justify 2 (or more) objetects: Ctrl 5 To vertically justify: ctrl 7 To horizontaly justify: ctrl 3 To left justify: ctrl 4 To right justify: ctrl 6 To top justify: ctrl 8 To bottom justify: ctrl 2
In Inspire I was always using guidelines. No longer in Flexi.
-------------------- Stephen Bolin Signs By Tomorrow Holland, MI Posts: 78 | From: Holland, MI | Registered: Aug 2001
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Try using numeric values in the design central pallet. Or drop a guide and then use the arrow keys.
I have been pretty frustrated with the whole thing for most of the same reasons. It does a lot of good things but...for the amount of dough being laid out I expected a "smarter" app. and at times better support.
There are a couple of good threads posted here debating corel, illustrator, co-cut(sp?)and many others. Gotta love the search button.
-------------------- Alan Ackerson LetterWorks Design and Graphics alan@ack2.com Posts: 776 | From: Oak Ridge, NJ | Registered: Aug 2002
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If you will notice your numeric keypad, the Control + [numeral] makes more sense. The 4 is at the Left, 5 in the Middle, 6 at the Right, 8 is at the Top, etc. I marked the numbers with a Sharpie for those times I wasn't so sharp.
I have to do a bug fix reinstall on Flexi 7 in the next few days because the Control + numeral no longer works and I currently have to use the Arrange menu.
If you want to center text to a guideline, click on the guideline, click on the text and use your align options. This works in the revision of Flexi 7 I am using.
I do not know about activating a center point. I just noticed it does not have one, although Corel does. Email Flexi with your wishes for one. They are constantly tweaking the product and may include one in the future. My constant complaining to them about Flexi 6 got some changes made in Flexi 7.
I'm still complaining about the fact they took out a functional "Copy" option. In the Flexi 5 move window, you could select an object, input a new placement (either relative to the drawing or the position of the object), and hit "Copy" and it would copy another object there. There was the option, like Corel, to simply move the object or copy it to the new location.
Now, you have to select the object, copy it by hitting "Copy" or holding "Control" and the + sign, select and align the two objects, select one object and then input the new position, either that or use "Step and Repeat", which is also many more steps and repeats of work than having the option via radio button of just copying to the new location.
Flexi says they are "considering" putting that feature back into the software. My advice to you is to suggest what you want in the software to make your work flow improve. They actually listen, although sometimes you have to shout a bit.
[ April 05, 2003, 01:24 AM: Message edited by: David Harding ]
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5089 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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