Better Light 7 Manuel D’Utilisation

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Selecting Show Rulers from the Display menu will cause rulers to be displayed on the top and left 

edges of the preview image. Command-R (Control-R in Windows) can also be used to turn rulers on 
and off. The rulers are shown in the current units selected on the Size tab panel. The origin for the 
rulers is set by default to the upper-left corner of the preview. The origin can be changed by clicking 
on the upper-left corner of the rulers and dragging into the preview image. The origin will be set to 
the location where the mouse is released. The ruler origin can be returned to the default setting by 
double-clicking in the upper-left corner of the rulers.

Clicking on a ruler and dragging into the preview image will create a guide line. Clicking on the 

horizontal ruler will create a horizontal guide and a vertical guide is created by clicking and dragging 
from the vertical ruler. A guide line can be deleted by clicking on it and dragging it back to it’s origi-
nal ruler or all guide lines can be deleted by selecting Clear Guides from the Display menu. A guide 
line may be repositioned by moving the mouse over the guide line until the mouse changes to a   
or   cursor, then click and drag the guide line to its new position. Guide lines will be displayed or 
hidden when the rulers are shown or hidden by the Command-R (Control-R in Windows) key com-
bination.

The guide line color and style may be selected by moving the cursor over a guide line until the 

cursor changes to a   or  . At this position double-click the mouse (double right-click in Windows) 
and the guide line attribute window will appear. Select the desired attributes and click OK to close 
the window.