Creating guidelines

You can create guidelines using the rulers or accurately, the Layer Gallery.

Creating guidelines using the rulers

either:

drag from the ruler onto the editing window. For example to create a vertical guideline, drag from the left-hand ruler.

or double click on the ruler to create a guideline aligned at the click point. For example, to create a vertical guideline, double-click on the top ruler.

Create guidelines using the Layer Gallery

Note that the Layer Gallery is not available in Animation Documents - see Drawing and Animation Documents for more details.

1. Right-click on the guides layer in the Layer Gallery to open the layer pop-up menu.

2. Choose Properties to open the Layer Properties dialog box.

3. Open the Guides tab.

4. Select Horizontal or Vertical.

5. Click New.

6. Type in the required position for the new guideline.

Tips

After creating guidelines you can prevent them being accidentally moved. To do this, use the Layer Gallery to turn off the Editable setting for the guides layer. See Hiding Layers.

You can turn the rulers on and off using Rulers on the Window menu.

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Related Topics

Guides

Layer Gallery