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FEBRUARY 05, 2004 Manipulating Guides in Illustrator CS
And voila! Your guides are now spaced evenly across your canvas, giving you five equal areas regardless of the dimensions of your page. You can use the "Vertical Distribute Center" button to do the same thing with horizontal guides as well.  [an error occurred while processing this directive]Alternately, if you have only one guide (and therefore nothing to distribute), you can use the Align buttons to place the guide in the center of your canvas. Just place your guide, and then click the "Vertical Align Center" or "Horizontal Align Center" button to get the job done. Method 2: Make guides from object The problem with the Align and/or Distribute method is that it can't be automated. You have to create the guides and then align/distribute them manually with each new document because Illustrator doesn't record the creation of ruler guides when creating Actions. However, there are other methods that can be completely automated. One of them is through the use of objects that you then convert to guides. Remember, we're pursuing this method for the purpose of automation (recording as an Action) and for generalization, meaning that whatever document size you create, you'll be able to divide it up evenly with the click of a button or F-key. So our method may seem circuitous the first time around, but it will save a lot of time in the future. To begin, open up your Actions palette. Click the New Action button to create a new Action and start recording. Then follow these steps. (Each one will be added as a step in your Actions palette.)  1. Choose Object > Crop Area > Make. This will set crop marks at the edge of your document.  2. Choose Object > Crop Area > Release. This will convert your crop area to an object the exact dimensions of your page.  Prev 1 2 3 Next Related sites: • Creative Mac • Digital Media Designer • Digital Producer • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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