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Why are my guides disappearing when I select them?

M_G6
Enthusiast ,
Feb 18, 2020 Feb 18, 2020

(Mac Catalina, Illus. 24.0.1)

 

Why are my guides disappearing when I select them?

 

If I click on my artboard they reappear.

 

What's going on?

 

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Ton Frederiks Community Expert
Community Expert , Aug 14, 2020 Aug 14, 2020

Vote here:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/39740689-realtime-preview-makes-rulers-and-objects-disappea

And you can use these workarounds in the meantime:

Switch to Outline preview or CPU preview to see what you are moving and creating a special layer for guides and putting the layer in outline preview works too.

 

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jacobl54338525
New Here , Jan 27, 2021 Jan 27, 2021

Thanks Kurt! Show/Hide Edges (ctrl+H) did the trick for me. Toggling the Real Time Drawing setting on and off did not prevent the guides from vanishing, neither did switching from Previewing on CPU or GPU. 

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Ton Frederiks Community Expert
Community Expert ,
Aug 14, 2020 Aug 14, 2020
In Response To richardf48537383

Just noticed when you move text - the bounding box vanishes as well.

That has always been like that.

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richardf48537383
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Aug 14, 2020 Aug 14, 2020
In Response To Ton Frederiks

I don't think it has - but you're the expert. So I bow to your knowledge

[bowing]

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Ton Frederiks Community Expert
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Aug 14, 2020 Aug 14, 2020
In Response To richardf48537383

🙂

Always is as far as I can check (CS4)

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Adorable_sincerity98A2
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Aug 14, 2020 Aug 14, 2020
In Response To Ton Frederiks

Isn't it amazing when we buy top notch GPUs and then have to go clicking Ctrl+E just to see the guidelines when we need to set up? I bought Affinity design, maybe it's time to start using it more often.

-- * -- More colour-coded stuff in all Adobe apps, please. --*--
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mikirk
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Apr 13, 2021 Apr 13, 2021

mikirk_0-1618339305341.pngexpand image

 

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ndunn219
Community Beginner ,
Nov 30, 2022 Nov 30, 2022

In Illustrator 27.01, it seems to help to turn Snap to Grid off. Then, when you hover over the guides, you get the little guide title:

ndunn219_0-1669859169059.pngexpand image

And when you select the guide, it stays visible (and turns pink).

 

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