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dane13860245
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July 16, 2023
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How do hide page-specific guides with specific item names?

  • July 16, 2023
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How can I "hide" a specific guide that has been rendered under an event handler?

 

Maybe I can't delete guides, but I can try hiding them if anyone can provide an example of page-specific guides being hidden. 

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    m1b
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    m1bCommunity Expert
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    July 16, 2023

    There doesn't appear to be a way to hide an indivisual guide according to the api for Guide but there may be a workaround: you could "hide" a guide by coloring it the same color as the paper:

    // just an example guide
var guide = app.activeDocument.guides[0];
// this stops the guide being visible into the pasteboard
guide.fitToPage = true;
// make this match your paper
guide.guideColor = [255, 255, 255];

    - Mark

     

    (I have posted this on your other question, but it is more pertinent to this thread, so I'll repeat it here in case anyone finds this question.)

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      dane13860245Author
      Known Participant
      July 16, 2023

      I'm still confused here, I have little experience with JS. I'd like to hide a select number of guides using an onChange function of a slider on a specific actively selected page.


      Currently the way I add several guides at a time is using the following loop

       

      for (var i = 1; i < 5; ++i) {
              app.activeWindow.activePage.guides.add({ name: "Blah" + i, location: docWidth * i * 0.1, orientation: HorizontalOrVertical.VERTICAL });
          }
       
      Now, once these guides are drawn, is there a way I can create a button that will hide a variable number of them?
      m1b
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      m1bCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 16, 2023

      Hi @dane13860245, you can remove specific guides. See my answer on your other post.

      - Mark

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      dane13860245Author
      Known Participant
      July 16, 2023

      Thank you for the reply, but I would still like to know how to hide/unhide guides as an option to explore.

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