Selecting objects

To perform an operation on one or more objects you have to select it or them first. You can do this by clicking with the mouse on the object. On the objects a number of so called “sizing handles” (the green rectangles) will be shown, indicating that the object has been selected. These “sizing handles” can also be used to change the size of the object. The toolbar “Dimensions” will display the position and size of the object.

When you click with the mouse on another object this object will get selected and the previously selected object will be deselected.

See also:

Selecting a border

Selecting a line

Selecting more than one object

If you want to peform an operatoin on more objects at the same time you first have to select these objects.

To select more objects at the same time you have several possibilities:

• Draw a rectangle around the objects to be selected. Therefore you have to click with the left mouse button on the page, but not inside an object. Keep the left mouse button down and drag with the mouse a rectangle around the objects to be selected. When the rectangle is large enough to contain all the objects you release the left mouse button. All objects inside the rectangle will now be selected:

• Keep the CTRL-key pressed while you select the objects one by one. By clicking a selected object again the object will get deselected:

• In case you want to select all stamps of a group you can first select one of the stamps and select the others via the right mouse menu the option Groups and then Select Group . This option can also be found in the main menu Options and then Group.

The status bar shows the number of selected objects. The toolbar “Dimensions” shows the positions and sizes of the selected objects. The fields for the x and y positions, however, will remain empty because the positions of the objects differ. The same goes for width and height fields when the sizes of the objects differ.

Note:

You can only select objects on the selected page. If you select an object on another page the selection on the previous selected page will be cancelled.

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