[Tip] Guides are your friend...

[angelize]

You can also add a button to toggle rulers on and off by going to the Window menu > control bars chose button palette from the dialog, hold Alt and drag any button to any control bar. This also works in Xtreme.

[steve.ledger]

You can also add a button to toggle rulers on and off by going to the Window menu > control bars chose button palette from the dialog, hold Alt and drag any button to any control bar. This also works in Xtreme.

I think Frances mean't that any button can be dragged to the control bars, but of course only the Page Rulers button will toggle rulers off/on..

[angelize]

Yes that's what I meant. Thanks Steve, apologies for any confusion.

[dogbertbh]

Guidelines and guide objects can be assigned "repeating items" status.

This was a GREAT tip for me.

Thank You.

[camelot217]

For those who don't know ---> the other alignment aid in Xara-WD is the Alignment Tool. You can find it under the 'Arrange' Menu. The alignment tool has a rivalry with the guides. They both want to be your bestest friend! Xara has made both increadibly intuitive to use to good effect. Visit Xara's help files if you want explanations of their usage.

Regards, Ross

Alignment...one my all time fav tools.

Tom

[Spinny]

Interesting thread. This is the first I've heard of rulers and alignment guides in XWD. None of this seems to appear in the "getting started" or online guide docs. Thanks for posting it!

PS: no criticism of the documentation implied, only of my lameness in how I was trying to access it.

[steve.ledger]

Guidelines and guide objects can be assigned "repeating items" status.

Curtis I missed this last month
Can you show me how guidelines (not guide objects) can be assigned as a repeating object?

[nickydude]

I've dragged the ruler icon in the toolbar at the top of XWD, that way it's always handy.

[cursor]

Can you show me how guidelines (not guide objects) can be assigned as a repeating object?

I should have said guide lines, rather than "guidelines," perhaps. That said,

• All elements that reside on the Guides layer are shown with the distinctive dashed red outline. Any fills are ignored, but not forgotten -- that is:.
  • Create a circle (with solid color fill) on MouseOff
  • Moving it to the Guides layer will make the fill inaccessible.
  • Move the circle back to the MouseOff layer, and it's full attribute set is restored.
• Lines (and other objects, including text) can be created or positioned on the Guides layer that have one or multiple control points that snap to guidelines (or grid positions, or other objects ... on any number of layers).
  All of these objects can be made repeating.
• By attaching both start and end points of horizontal or vertical line segment to a single guideline, you can create a overlapping guide line that can be made repeating.
• While guidelines can't be named (and consequently can't be [formal] repeating objects), all guidelines that reside on the current page are automatically duplicated when doing an Edit > Pages > New page.
  • The page is inserted directly after the current page.
  • All page attributes from the current page are duplicated (size, background, etc.)
• Note that doing an Edit > Pages > Duplicate current page will behave exactly the same as > New page, except that in addition to the above, all graphic elements from the current page are duplicated (in place) ... including guidelines.

[steve.ledger]

Thanks Curtis, I knew about objects (boxes, circles and lines) drawn in the guide layer. It was guidelines that had me stumped as they aren't selectable objects, so couldn't be assign to repeating status.

This will be useful to other members too.
Thanks again for taking the time.