Locking items on the master? Urgent!

[Steve@Fresh]

Hi All,

Can anyone help me, I'm creating a template for a client and for a final detail they have asked for some of the items, items that will never need to be moved or edited, to be locked on the master. The items are simple a large red square, a line and logo. Is there a way to lock these items, the only way I could see to do this was to crease an image of these items and drop it in as a background image, but this is going to increase the size of the file an loose quality.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Steve

[John Wilson]

Steve

There's no real way to do this

One workaround which will defeat the average dabbler is to move the shapes in question to the back and zoom out to 10%. Insert a rectangle in front of the shapes and make it as large as possible then set its fill transparency to 100%. In normal zoom levels the rectangle will select but you won't be able to tell and the shapes behind can't be selected.

Not foolproof but works 99% of the time.