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The Layer Gallery gives you full control over the layers in a document. This includes the foreground and background layers and the guides layer. For more details on layers, see the Layers Overview.

Note that only 'Drawing' type documents can contain layers. See Creating new documents for details of creating Drawing type documents.

The gallery shows two sections. The upper section lists all the foreground layers in the selected document, the lower section details the background layers which will not print. Note that the guides layer will never print no matter which section it is in.

image\LGNEW.gif New  Create a new layer

image\LGCOPY.gif Copy  Copy an existing layer

image\LGPROP.gif Properties  Layer properties

image\LGDEL.gif Delete  Delete a layer

image\LGMOVE.gif Move  Move selected objects to current layer

image\LGALLVIS.gif  All Visible  Display all layers

image\LGMULTI.gif  All Editable Unlock all layers

image\LGVISED.gif Visible and Editable Hide/lock individual layers

image\LGGUIDES.gif Guides Layer 

Current Layer

The current layer is the layer highlighted in the gallery and is the layer into which all newly created objects are placed. To change the current layer, just click on a layer in the gallery..

Many operations using the Layer Gallery are more easily accessible using the Layer Gallery pop-up menu.

Exporting multiple layers

You can export each layer individually as multiple PNG files. More information.

Movie—click below (not working in this version)

Using layers