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Objects & pathfinder

Objects & pathfinder

Objects

Arrange, group, mask, blend, pathfind and prepare artwork.

Object workflows cover the everyday production tasks that turn simple shapes into structured artwork: ordering, grouping, locking, hiding, blending, masking, cropping and converting.

Transform commands

Move, Scale, Rotate, Reflect, Shear, Transform Each and Transform Again support exact repeatable edits. Transform Again Copy repeats a previous transform onto a duplicate.

Arrange and z-order

Bring To Front, Bring Forward, Send Backward and Send To Back control stacking order without disturbing object geometry.

Group, lock and hide

Group related elements, ungroup them later, lock selections to prevent accidental edits, and hide objects temporarily while working inside dense illustrations.

Expand and Expand Appearance

Expand converts supported objects into simpler editable vectors. Expand Appearance bakes styled or generated appearances into explicit geometry.

Flatten Transparency

Turns complex transparency interactions into flattened output when a workflow requires predictable compositing or print handoff.

Rasterize

Converts selected vector content into raster artwork inside the document when a bitmap representation is needed for effects, compatibility or final delivery.

Blend

Blend Make creates interpolated steps between objects. Blend Options controls the step count, and Release dissolves the blend back into editable objects.

Compound Paths

Make Compound Path combines shapes so interior holes and overlapping contours behave as one fill. Release separates the structure again.

Pathfinder

Unite, Minus Front, Minus Back, Intersect and Exclude combine shapes. Divide, Trim, Merge and Crop split or simplify overlaps for production-ready vectors.

Clipping Masks

Make a clipping mask to reveal artwork only through a selected shape, or release it to restore the underlying objects.

Crop Marks

Create Illustrator-style trim marks around selected artwork for print preparation, then release them when they are no longer needed.

Fit Frame to Text

Adjust area text frames to their content, or fit a rectangle to the inked bounds of selected text for layout and label production.

Pathfinder palette

Besides menu commands, SVG Editor includes a Pathfinder palette so boolean operations can be accessed as quick visual buttons during shape construction.

Image placeholder: Pathfinder palette Suggested asset: close-up of the Pathfinder palette next to overlapping shapes before and after Unite, Minus Front, Intersect and Exclude.
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