request: guide lines in angle

[martin draax]

Wouldn't it be great if you could use guidelines in an angle? Now w just have 'horizontal' and 'vertical' but why not angles? I's use it a lot, also in other Adobe programs...

thanks for considering,

Martin

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

This is just the user forum, and I'd guess that most users would welcome some added flexibility in ID's already pretty capable guideline, grid and snap system. You might want to post it in the Requested Features forum, where it can gain upvotes and thus the attention of the development team.

I am not sure it's a high priority notion, though. InDesign is a fairly "rectilinear" layout app and skewing things at angles is not as common or "useful" as it is in, say, Illustrator. It would be almost entirely for artistic layout, which would probably be done in a combination of ID and AI anyway... and you can draw guidelines on layers at any angle or in any direction you like if you're doing a fancy layout, especially using the document grid to align and snap those angles.

But I woudn't mind if it could be integrated into the guideline system without costing too much precious development time. 🙂

[Laubender]

Hi @martin draax ,

there are some tricks to add guides with an angle other than 0° or 90°.

But as soon as you do this, the guide's property to dectect an object and pull it to the guide's position is not working anymore.

Example 1:

Select a guide and export it to IDMS (InDesign Snippet format).

Draw out a text frame, select the insertion point with the Text tool and place the exported IDMS.

Then rotate the text frame.

Caution:

When you IDML such a document the guide inside the text frame will vanish.

Example 2:

Draw out some guides on a separate parent page.

Rotate the parent page with the Pages Tool and Transform functionality.

Apply the rotated parent page to an ordinary page.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[martin draax]

Thank you, Uwe! Those are quite useful ideas!