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FEBRUARY 05, 2004 Manipulating Guides in Illustrator CS
3. Choose Object > Path > Split Into Grid. A dialog will pop up asking you how many rows and columns you want to create and how wide the gutters should be. Set the number of columns and rows you want, and make the gutters 0. Click OK when you're done. (Do not choose the "Add Guides" option. It will create problems.)  [an error occurred while processing this directive]4. Now go to View > Guides > Make Guides. This will convert your object into guides.5. If desired, you can add one final, step: View > Guides > Lock Guides. Apply this only if you had the guides unlocked previously and only if you don't want the guides getting in the way while you're working.  You now have a page full of evenly spaced guides and an action to create these guides anytime you make a new document. Now click the "Stop Recording" button in your Actions palette, and you're done. If desired, you can also assign an F-key to the Action by selecting the Action, then selecting the flyaway menu and then choosing "Action Options."  Incidentally, every time you play this Action, you will be presented with a dialog asking you how many rows/columns to set. If you simply want to use the number that you used when you created the Action, you can disable the dialog by clicking on the little menu icon next to the Action Step, as seen below.  That's it. To test it out, create a new document and hit the Play button (or F-key) for your Action. If you have any further questions, drop me a line or visit me in the Adobe Illustrator user forum here. Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the editor and producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several DMN Forums, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Apple DVD Studio Pro, Mac OS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Corel Painter, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at dnagel@digitalmedianet.com. Prev 1 2 3 Related sites: • Creative Mac • Digital Media Designer • Digital Producer • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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