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June 30, 2020
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Guides not showing in Indesign

  • June 30, 2020
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I have an illustrator document with Guides. When I place this in InDesign, these lines are not visible. I tried, checking and unchecking Smart Guides. I have everything checked in the Preferences> Guides and Pasteboard. Please help. Thanks in advance.

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Correct answer Jongware

Only visible content gets imported into InDesign. Guidelines are just that -- guides, for use with Illustrator.

 

If you want the exact same lines visible in InDesign after importing (and you do not mind that they will not work as guidelines -- because they are not), you will have to actually draw them as proper lines in the Illustrator document.

 

Do so on a separate layer so you can turn them off in InDesign, or else they will be visible in print.

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Sheena Kaul
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Sheena KaulCommunity Manager
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July 10, 2020

Hi there,

 

I hope your issue is resolved already but in case you need more assistance please reply to this thread. 

Else, if any of the solutions above helped, please confirm. 

 

Regards,

Sheena

Jongware
JongwareCorrect answer
Community Expert
June 30, 2020

Only visible content gets imported into InDesign. Guidelines are just that -- guides, for use with Illustrator.

 

If you want the exact same lines visible in InDesign after importing (and you do not mind that they will not work as guidelines -- because they are not), you will have to actually draw them as proper lines in the Illustrator document.

 

Do so on a separate layer so you can turn them off in InDesign, or else they will be visible in print.

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nigelfrench
Community Expert
June 30, 2020

That is to be expected. Guides are nonprinting visual aids. You can show and hide Illustrator guides in Illustrator and you can show and hide InDesign guides in InDesign, but you will not be able to control Illustrator guides when viewing a placed Illustrator file in InDesign.

If you really need to see them, return to IL, make sure the guides are unlocked and choose View>Guides>Release Guides. BUT… they are no longer guides, but printable artwork.

If you put these "guides" on a their own layer in Illustrator, you can toggle the layer visibility of the placed AI file in InDesign using Object>Object Layer Options. 
Hope this helps.

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