Design Tools toolbar

On the Design Tools toolbar you will find buttons for editing form elements. Click a button to launch the corresponding design tool.

Screenshot of the Design Tools toolbar in ABBYY FormDesigner. — The Design Tools toolbar.

Buttons on the Design Tools toolbar:

Button	Description
Show Grid	Shows or hides the grid.
Show Main Ruler	Shows or hides the main ruler.
Snap to Grid	Snaps the top left corner of newly created elements to the nearest grid node. When moving a form element, it will also be snapped to the nearest grid node.
Align Left	Aligns the selected elements to the left edge of the last selected element.
Center Horizontally	Centers the selected elements along the center of the last selected element without changing their vertical position.
Align Right	Aligns the selected elements to the right edge of the last selected element.
Align Top	Aligns the selected elements to the top edge of the last selected element.
Center Vertically	Centers the selected elements along the center of the last selected element without changing their horizontal position.
Align Bottom	Aligns the selected elements to the bottom edge of the last selected element.
Align to Grid	Aligns the top left corners of all the selected elements to the nearest grid nodes.
Space Evenly Across	Spaces selected elements evenly across the page.
Space Evenly Down	Spaces selected elements evenly down the page.
Make Same Height	Makes the height of all the selected elements the same as the height of the last selected element.
Make Same Width	Makes the width of all the selected elements the same as the width of the last selected element.
Make Same Height and Width	Makes the height and width of all the selected elements the same as the height and width of the last selected element.
Size to Grid	Expands the borders of the selected element to the nearest grid lines.
Merge	Merges the selected elements on the form.
Split	Splits the selected elements on the form.
Add to Merged Elements	Adds elements to previously merged elements. Both the elements to be added and the previously merged elements must be selected.
Bring to Front	Moves the selected elements to the foreground.
Send to Back	Moves the selected elements to the background.
Snap Align Rulers to Elements	Turns on or off the automatic binding of elements to rulers. If this mode is turned on, when you move a ruler on the form, it will be automatically bound to the elements that are sufficiently close to it.
Show All Rulers	Shows or hides all rulers.
Vertical Ruler	Creates a vertical ruler.
Horizontal Ruler	Creates a horizontal ruler.
Delete All Rulers	Deletes all rulers.

Introducing ABBYY FormDesigner

ABBYY FormDesigner Interface

Working with ABBYY FormDesigner

Appendix