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Selection: a Shift-constrained move that snaps stays on its line
A move that Shift kept level, upright or on a diagonal left that line when it snapped. With View › Snap to Grid on, a level Shift-drag also moved the selection up or down onto a gridline, and Snap to Pixel, Smart Guides and Snap to Point moved it off the line in the same way. Each axis snapped on its own after Shift had constrained the move. With the Selection tool, and with Group Selection and Direct Selection moving whole objects, a Shift-constrained move now slides along its line until it snaps. With Snap to Grid or Snap to Pixel, the move slides along the line by the shorter of the two distances that put it on a gridline or a whole pixel on either axis. The bounds line up with the other objects, or space evenly with them, only on the axes the line runs along, and the grabbed point stops where the line passes an anchor or crosses a ruler guide. A level or upright move snaps along its own axis only. Moves without Shift snap as before. Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
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Object › Arrange › Send to Current Layer returns the error "the target layer is locked or hidden" and leaves the selected objects where they are when the current layer is hidden or locked, or is inside a hidden or locked layer.
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Selected objects are deselected, the key object included, when a row drag moves them into a hidden layer or group, when `node.move` moves them into a hidden or locked layer or group, when Merge Selected moves them into a hidden or locked layer, when Collect in New Layer moves them into a new layer inside a hidden or locked layer, when Flatten Artwork moves them into a locked layer, and when applying a data set hides them.
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- **Drawing aids:** Smart Guides and snapping (moving, with the Selection, Group Selection or Direct Selection tool, and resizing by the bounding-box handles with the Selection or Free Transform tool, Shift and Alt too: the dragged corner or side lands on the other objects' anchors and centres ("anchor", "center") or lines up with their edges and centres (a line and "align"); with Smart Guides › Spacing Guides, a moved selection that lines up with nothing along an axis lands as far from its neighbour as two other objects of its row or column are apart, or halfway between its two neighbours, the equal gaps marked; with View › Snap to Grid on, a moved selection lands on the grid instead, by whichever of its edges or its centre is nearest a gridline on each axis, #740; the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools drag from the anchor they grab and snap the pointer the same way, so a corner dragged onto another object's anchor scales exactly onto it, #482; anchors dragged with Direct Selection: the one pressed on lands on other anchors, its own path's that stay put among them, on path segments or in line with them, the others following, Shift keeps 45° steps, and with Smart Guides off Snap to Point pulls it onto anchors; the Artboard tool snaps artboards, and their bleed, to other artboards, bleeds and art, the grid or whole pixels while moving, copying and resizing them, and the Transform panel shows and edits the active artboard's X/Y/W/H; drawn points, #506: hovering shows where the press goes, the point lands on the other objects' anchors, centres and paths ("anchor", "center", "path") or lines up with their anchors, edges and centres ("align"), the Pen's on the path being drawn too, near a construction guide through the anchor before it on that guide (Preferences › Smart Guides › Construction Guides and Angles), and with Shift kept to its 45° step or a square's diagonal it slides along that way into line; the targets are gathered once per document state, from the art in the window, and the anchors, centres and lines near the pointer are found by bisection, so hovering never rescans the document), guides dragged out of the rulers (#451: they snap as moved guides do, Shift to the ruler's ticks; with the Artboard tool they are artboard guides, which run across their artboard only and move, copy and delete with it, `guide.add {artboard}`) that the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools then pick and drag (#414: the selected guides highlight and move together, Alt copies them, Shift snaps the dragged one to the ticks, otherwise it snaps to pixels, the grid or the edges, centres (so the sides' midpoints) and anchors of the art and the artboards, or with Smart Guides off Snap to Point pulls it onto anchors; Shift-clicked they join the selected art, and Shift-added art keeps them, so guides and art are selected together in either order, Delete then deleting both in one step; the arrow keys nudge them, Delete deletes them, dragging one back onto its ruler deletes it, Lock Guides and Hide Guides leave them alone; `guide.list`, `guide.select`, `guide.move` and `guide.remove` reach agents), a right-click on either ruler or the origin box to pick the document's units (the current one checked; `document.setUnits`, one undo step, #528), and Draw Normal / Behind / Inside modes. Smart Guides: a point drawn with the Pen or a shape tool, and an anchor dragged with Direct Selection, snaps to where paths and ruler guides cross, labelled "intersect" (#1658, part of #1602; a moved selection's own anchors don't).
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A move that Shift keeps level, upright or diagonal stays on that line when it snaps, with the Selection, Group Selection or Direct Selection tool. It slides along the line until the selection lands on the grid or on whole pixels, lines up with the other objects or is spaced evenly with them, or until the line passes an anchor or crosses a ruler guide near the point the selection was grabbed by. A level or upright move snaps along its own axis only.
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A bounding-box handle dragged with the Selection or Free Transform tool snaps what it moves as a dragged point snaps (#2054). With View › Snap to Grid on, it snaps to the nearest gridline, and with Snap to Pixel on, it snaps to whole pixels. With Smart Guides off and Snap to Point on, it snaps to the other objects' anchors and the ruler guides within the Snap to Point distance. With Smart Guides and Snap to Point both on, it lines up with the ruler guides as well as the other objects. Shift still keeps the proportions, and Alt still scales about the center.
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- **Artboard click-to-fit (#1227):** a plain click fits the topmost editable object or group to a new artboard, including its stroke like Fit to Selected Art, and makes the new artboard active. Art and its selection stay unchanged; creation is one undo step. Handles, modified clicks, drags, Escape and tool changes retain their meaning. Tested inside an artboard and on the pasteboard (`crates/engine/tests/artboard_click.rs`); the public [CS6 Printing Guide](https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/indesign/pdf/CS6_PrintGuide.pdf) documents the object-click gesture. This legacy gesture adds evidence without regrading the 2026 canvas controls.
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- **Rotated views:** with the view rotated, Fit Artboard in Window, Fit All in Window and the status bar's artboard navigator fit the artboard or the art as the view turns it, and a Zoom tool marquee (Animated Zoom or GPU Performance off) zooms to the area dragged across. Ruler guides on no artboard turn with the view. The canvas draws the selection marquee where the tools select, Show Hidden Characters draws the marks of type partly inside the canvas, the Contextual Task Bar stays under the selection, and the Navigator's red box outlines what the window shows.
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