InDesign Tips: Making the Most of Rulers and Guides

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InDesign Tips: Making the Most of Rulers and Guides

Using rulers and guides is so engrained in the design process that most of us take them for granted. But Adobe InDesign has a slew of guides- and ruler-related features that are worth uncovering. Here are 11 of them.

Written by Tim Cole on September 11, 2003

Categories: Print, Print Design & Layout, How-Tos

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Rulers and guides are essential for positioning objects with precision in your page-layout program. Anyone who uses QuarkXPress, PageMaker or InDesign is familiar with basic ruler operations like changing units of measurement, resetting the zero point, or dragging guides onto pages.

But there's more to rulers and guides than picas and inches. Adobe InDesign offers many ways you can leverage rulers and guides when designing a page layout or creating a document template. For instance you can color code guides, use guides on layers, and save them in libraries.

This batch of tips from Adobe InDesign evangelist Tim Cole shows you 11 different ways to get the most out of InDesign's ruler and guides, including how to use the Create Guides feature and how to use guides with the Align Palette.

We've posted this story as a PDF file. All you do is click this link "Getting the Most out of Guides" to open the PDF file in your Web browser. You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing.

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