Guides and Anchoring

Abstract

Have you been wondering why elements of your Charticulator chart won’t stay where you put them when you click the Save button? Have you attempted yet to put a title on your x- or y-axis but to then find it suddenly moves elsewhere on the canvas? If the answer is yes to these questions, then read through this chapter because by doing so you will learn that to prevent elements placed on the canvas or in the Glyph pane from wandering around, they must be anchored to either one of the default guides or to a custom guide that you have placed there. In this chapter, we will be looking at how we work with the default guides, how we can create our own guides, and how to anchor elements to these guides.