InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Customizing Ruler Guides

InDesign gives you quite a bit of control over individual ruler guides in the Ruler Guides feature (see Figure 34-1)it's on the Layout menu, but you can also get to it by Control/right-clicking a guide. The dialog box offers these options:

• View Threshold. Determines the magnification above which a guide is displayed and below which a guide is hidden. This is equivalent to when you Shift-drag as you create a guide in XPress.




• Color. Sets the guide color. A guide is displayed using this color when it isn't selected. When you select a guide, it appears in its layer's color.

Because InDesign works with guides as objects, you can change the settings for one or more guides simultaneously by selecting the guides before choosing the Ruler Guides command. Or, to change the default settings for future guides, choose the Ruler Guides command when no guides are selected.

Guide Position

Because InDesign guides act like objects, you can use the Transform palette (or double-click on the Selection tool to display the Move dialog box) to numerically control the position of a selected guide, or use the arrow keys to nudge it slightly. If you need more than one guide, you might want to place one and then use the Step and Repeat command (on the Edit menu) to repeat it at regular intervals, or use the Create Guides command described below.

To convert a page guide into a pasteboard guide (one that extends onto the pasteboard), hold down the Command/Ctrl key while you drag it.

If you know where you want a pasteboard guide, you can place one quickly by double-clicking in the ruler at that point. For example, if you want a horizontal guide at 4 inches, double-click at the 4-inch mark on the vertical ruler. Even better, hold down the Shift key when you double-click and InDesign will snap the guide to the nearest ruler tick (so you don't have to worry that it's not positioned correctly).

Here's one more trick: You can place a horizontal and a vertical guide at the same time by Command/Ctrl-dragging from the intersection of the two rulers. Or, better, Command-Shift/Ctrl-Shift-drag to snap the guides to the nearest ruler ticks.

Locking Guides

Note that guides, like any object, can be locked in place by selecting Lock Position from the Object menu. You can also lock all the guides in the document at once with the Lock Guides feature in the View menu. Finally, you can lock one or more guides by placing them on a locked layer (see Chapter 24).

Copying Guides

When you copy and paste one or more guides, InDesign always remembers the guide's position on the page. For instance, you could draw four guides around the page, each .25-inch outside the page boundary ("bleed guides"), then select those guides, copy them, jump to a different page, and paste themthe guides will appear in exactly the same place. (You might need to do this because in InDesign, as in XPress, guides on the pasteboardlike any object on the pasteboardaround a master page don't appear on the document pages.) Note that you might get unexpected results when copying guides and then pasting them into a different-sized document.

Deleting Guides

XPress lets you delete a guide by dragging it outside of the document window. You can't do this in InDesign (the document window just scrolls!), so to delete a guide, just select it and press the Delete key.