Moving several guides at once

[timo.heil]

Is this possible? Like moving all guides 10px to the left.

[timo.heil]

Is this possible? Like moving all guides 10px to the left.

[gwpriester]

Unfortunately this is something CorelDRAW does quite well as they treat guides as objects which can be rotated and duplicate using Ctrl R.

You can do something like this in Xara by creating your own guidelines on the Guides Layer in the Layer Gallery. Then you can select the Guides layer and treat all the guides as individual objects.

One thing that Xara can do that takes about 4 or 5 steps in CorelDRAW is to eliminate all the guides in one step. Right click on the screen rulers and select Delete All Guidelines.

You can also enable snap to grid and double click on the screen ruler where you want your guide to be and it is automatically added.

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[Egg Bramhill]

You can do it in a way....On the ruler at the top left corner there's a 'cross hair'. You can drag this across the page area and it resets the orign. so if you drag it 100 pix x 100 pix down and right it alters all the guides by 100 pixels. See attachment.
Egg

[jens g.r. benthien]

that's absolutely fantastic. The non-plus-ulta. Thanks for the trick. I think this should be the tip of the month in Xara Zone. So obvious, yet not discovered until you digged deeper!

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[Egg Bramhill]

Thanks for that, but I did say 'You can do it in a way..' because it doesn't physicaly move the guides in relation to the page, just resets the origin, so it may be of limited value. Give it a try to see what I mean.
Egg

[gwpriester]

Not exactly as Egg used it, but as a way of resetting the X and Y axis of an image using the "Drag 0, 0, Point" tool.

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[roman]

I didn't know this either!! ;-)

[jens g.r. benthien]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Thanks for that, but I did say 'You can do it in a way..' because it doesn't physicaly move the guides in relation to the page, just resets the origin, so it may be of limited value. Give it a try to see what I mean.
Egg<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I know the advantages and limitations - coming from the CAD world I don't have any problem with absolute and relative coordinates ;-}. The advantage is obvious: you can move all guides at the same time i.e. 10 or 20 pix up/left, finish your drawing or part of it, add crop marks or cutting marks, then restore the origin to 0,0,0, select all, move it with the arrow keys 10 or 20 units and you are done, because you don't need the guides for printing or exporting. It's a real time saver.

Now imagine you could set up different origins for different layers like in CAD/3D...

I've discovered a trick to add a second set of guide lines:

open your standard doc, rename the 'guides' layer to 'guides01' and add the additional guides you need. Save this doc as i.e. 'extra-guides.xar'. Now open -> new -> your standard template. Then go to the menu -> utilities -> options and check 'maintain imported layer name', and import your 'extra-guides.xar' file. You should have a second guide layer now. Save this as your new standard template. Now you can use the seconde guide layer for your drawings.

It's a bit complicated, but Xara X can't just create a new guides layer, even if you will pull a normal layer to the guides layer section.

jens

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[This message was edited by jens g.r. benthien on April 07, 2003 at 01:28.]

[jens g.r. benthien]

Egg,

here you go with the additional guides layer.

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