Adobe 38039336 - Flash CS3 Professional User Manual page 30

For a video tutorial about the Flash interface, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0116.
Zoom the Stage
To view the entire Stage on the screen, or to view a particular area of your drawing at high magnification, change the
magnification level. The maximum magnification depends on the resolution of your monitor and the document size.
The minimum value for zooming out on the Stage is 8%. The maximum value for zooming in on the Stage is 2000%.
• To zoom in on an element, select the Zoom tool
tool between zooming in or out, use the Enlarge
when the Zoom tool is selected) or Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Macintosh).
• To zoom in so that a specific area of your drawing fills the window, drag a rectangular selection on the Stage with
the Zoom tool.
• To zoom in on or out of the entire Stage, select View > Zoom In or View > Zoom Out.
• To zoom in or out by a specified percentage, select View > Magnification, and select a percentage from the
submenu or select a percentage from the Zoom control at the upper-right corner of the Timeline.
• To scale the Stage so that it fits completely in the application window, select View > Magnification > Fit in
Window.
• To show the contents of the current frame, select View > Magnification > Show All, or select Show All from the
Zoom control at the upper-right side of the application window. If the scene is empty, the entire Stage appears.
• To show the entire Stage, select View > Magnification > Show Frame or select Show Frame from the Zoom control
at the upper-right corner of the Timeline.
• To show the workspace surrounding the Stage, or to view elements in a scene that are partly or completely outside
of the Stage area, select View > Pasteboard. The pasteboard appears in light gray. For example, to have a bird fly
into a frame, initially position the bird outside of the Stage in the pasteboard and animate it into the Stage area.
Move the view of the Stage
When the Stage is magnified, you may not be able to see all of it. To change the view without having to change the
magnification, use the Hand tool to move the Stage.
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In the Tools panel, select the Hand tool and drag the Stage. To temporarily switch between another tool and the
Hand tool, hold down the Spacebar and click the tool in the Tools panel.
Use rulers
When rulers show, they appear along the top and left sides of the document. You can change the unit of measure used
in the rulers from the default of pixels to another unit. When you move an element on the Stage with the rulers
displayed, lines indicating the element's dimensions appear on the rulers.
• To show or hide rulers, select View > Rulers.
• To specify the rulers' unit of measure for a document, select Modify > Document, and select a unit from the Ruler
Units menu.
See also
"Snapping" on page 181
in the Tools panel, and click the element. To switch the Zoom
or Reduce modifiers (in the options area of the Tools panel
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