InDesignSecrets Videocast #5: Guides Tips
If you use guides in InDesign, you need these tips! If you don’t use guides… why not? Were you raised by wolves?! Or are guides just too much of a hassle for you? If so, you definitely need these tips! Here in Episode 5, Anne-Marie and David let loose with a whole mess of guide-related tips that work in CS2, CS3, and CS4.
You can watch the videocast by clicking on the video below, or — if you want a larger version of it — go directly to our channel at indesignsecrets.blip.tv. These videos are also available on Adobe.tv (though it usually takes a few weeks for each episode to be posted there). Alternatively, you can watch (or even subscribe) to the video podcast on iTunes with this link.
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Good stuff again folks, many peoples don’t know theses tips, even the longtime users. So thanks for sharing all of them in one single doses again. Each videocast has the same effect of drinking a “Red Bull”.
Speaking of guides, I have been using two littles scripts for many years and I decide to share them on my blog. One Move all guides to a layer for an entire document, the other delete all guides for an entire document. You can read about it and get them at http://bit.ly/2Scripts
Great collection of tips. Another of my favorite guide tips (which I am sure you both know but readers may not) is when an object is selected you can drag a guide to one of the resize handles and it will snap to the edge of that object. Of course CS4’s Smart Guides help you snap guides to objects regardless of whether or not they are selected, but this trick works in previous versions of InDesign and if you have turned off Smart Guides.
You should also also take a look at one of the script included in Indesign call: “AddGuides” that allow you, among others options, to draw guides around selected objects or group, or centered on objects and group. Pretty useful tool.
Great videocast!
I just put up a script (which I had lying around on my computer for a good couple of years) which can select guides by their orientation.
For those interested, you can get it here: http://in-tools.com/wordpress/indesign/scripts/script-of-the-day-july-19-2009
That was very useful and interesting!!!
Tope to have more of these videos!!!
Thanks!
hi i always wonder if the ruler guide have a other function thank you for your important tips
ziyad mihyar
OMG ctrl + enter applies change but keeps control bar field highlighted just changed my life!!!! That will save me so much back and forth mouse time. I had been using ctrl + alt + ~ to return to previous field but this trick is even better!!
Thanks so much guys!
@Travis: So glad these tips helped! However, I believe it’s Shift-Enter…
you mentioned show notes at the end of one of your video cast show #5 on guides. I cannot find them. I am assuming that these are notes and tips from the videocast. Please direct me to them. thanks for all you and your staff are doing.
@frank: Sorry for the confusion. You did find the show notes… they’re just the notes from above. Sorry, we don’t offer a PDF or handout or something like that for these free videocasts at this time.
I discovered you guys through Lynda.com. Love your training and tips. Very useful! Thanks for sharing. Keep them coming!
Again a great videocast!
A pure concentrate of useful tips. Some I didn’t know and some I did know but never use and forgot.
I didn’t know about the shift-enter. This one is definitely a must!
Thanks a lot