Position on Page

2 part question WDP 16:

Some objects, including text, will automatically stick to the bottom of a page. When the page is lengthened or shortened by dragging the page boundary the object remains relative to the page. The 'Auto-Fit to Page' section didn't appear to give any options that were applicable (but it did make my eyebrows raise when everything shrank, ctrl z ctrl z).

Part 1 - How does one make an object 'stick' to the bottom of the page (footer)?
Part 2 - Why do some objects do this automatically and some don't (is it because I create some objects in a hidden zone and others I drag there later)?

Chris

Part 1 - In the (Utilities > )Auto-fit to Page dialog, untick the Automatic checkbox. Next, with an object selected, pick the Vertical > Bottom radio button option. The selected object then keeps the same distance from the bottom when you change the page height.
Part 2 - There are no hidden zones. You might have applied Push.

Acorn

Part 1 - Yup, that certainly worked.
Part 2 - Totally accept the no hidden zones, but Push was off with both objects (one a stretch full width rectangle, the other plain text)

I haven't played with the Auto-Fit before but I shall. I like to understand how things work as much as possible. In this case both objects had 'Auto-Fit All Objects' un-ticked and 'Selected Object(s) Options' was ticked for automatic, yet one was sticky, the other not. I did wonder if it was because the rectangle was Stretch Full Width. Now I know how to manually manipulate those settings (thank you) I'll play around and figure it out.

I would say that 90% of the time objects I place at the bottom of the page act as sticky footers automatically and I had just blindly accepted that that was normal, and objects that didn't was due to the fickle nature of the deities on planet Xara.

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Originally Posted by Chris M

Part 1 - Yup, that certainly worked.
Part 2 - Totally accept the no hidden zones, but Push was off with both objects (one a stretch full width rectangle, the other plain text)

I haven't played with the Auto-Fit before but I shall. I like to understand how things work as much as possible. In this case both objects had 'Auto-Fit All Objects' un-ticked and 'Selected Object(s) Options' was ticked for automatic, yet one was sticky, the other not. I did wonder if it was because the rectangle was Stretch Full Width. Now I know how to manually manipulate those settings (thank you) I'll play around and figure it out.

I would say that 90% of the time objects I place at the bottom of the page act as sticky footers automatically and I had just blindly accepted that that was normal, and objects that didn't was due to the fickle nature of the deities on planet Xara.

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Chris, your guess is probably right. Including Stretch, Push and Auto-fit is going to cause some conflict or behaviour that is there just to confound us mortals.

Acorn

I just created a blank page and threw on a mixture of shapes, text and photos and, of course, not one of them acted sticky. Where's that whiskey bottle?

The big thing is I now know where to go and how to manipulate said behaviour.