I can't pull guides from the ruler

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
June 23, 2009
3 replies
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I am using CS4. I can open a document with guides already in it and manipulate them. When I try to pull down a guide from the ruler nothing happens. Guides are shown, cyan in color not hidden, not locked. I have covered all the rest of the bases and am truly stumped! What am I missing?

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M-M-L

Participant

I had the same problem and I realised InDesign won't let you create guides if your View Treshold is more than 5% (Layout > Ruler Guides).

Edu Couchez

Inspiring

Three years later still with that... even this "view treshold" that suppose was useful in the 90's when computers were slow. But burying that option in the preferences menu, between hundreds of parameters is a complete waste of time and health (as all Adobe apps out there -except for Photoshop-). But hey... welcome to Adobe way of life.

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tmsoft

Participant

I just had your exact problem and I didn't realize guides were put into your highlighted layer as I was use to photoshop. So highlight a layer that is visible in your layers view and then create the guides and they'll be added to your highlighted layer. This layer needs to be unlocked and visible.

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Mike77Learning

Participant

tmsoft is correct! I was having the exact same problem, then I realized that I did not have the layer selected, once I actually selected the correct layer, i could create guidelines from the ruler!

Solution: Select the Layer you are working on to see/create new guidelines from the ruler!

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Jesseham

Inspiring

Are you trying to drag them onto a locked layer?