Guides not showing in Indesign

[tejoa31474572]

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.

[nigelfrench · Accepted solution]

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.

[Jongware · Accepted solution]

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.

[Sheena Kaul]

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