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Saving guides as snippets

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    • April 21, 2010 at 1:52 am #55538
      Richard Stenlund
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      Hello. Sorry for my bad english since I work in the swedish version. I am currently working in CS3, eager to upgrade directly up to CS5. We have consultants at our company that suggests that we should start using snippets in our workflow instead of several master pages. It doesn´t seem to be a bad idea but I´m trying to save guides as snippets and can´t get it to work. Is it possible in CS3, and if not, will it be in CS5. Anyone knows? Appreciate any ideas. We try to have as few layers

      And by the way. Is there anybody who has an opinion if snippets has any pros and cons. Wouldd be great to know before we start changing our workflow.

    • April 21, 2010 at 5:48 am #55539
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      You should be able to save guides as snippets, even in CS3. I know you can in CS4. Remember to select them first! (However, because you cannot select guides and objects at the same time, you cannot have both guides and objects in the same snippet.)

    • April 21, 2010 at 8:57 am #55540
      Richard Stenlund
      Member

      Hello. Thanks for fast answer.

      We selected just the guides and dragged them into a folder but nothing more happens than that they disapper off the page and no snippet gets saved in the folder. The purpose is to create a bunch of combinations of columns and rows. Would it be smarter to create and keep the guides in layers? I saw that layers can be kept in groups in CS4. My thought was to create separate guides for columns and rows and then combinate them together. But back to the snippets. Is there some kind of keys to be held down when dragging them off the page maybe?

    • April 21, 2010 at 9:05 am #55541
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      I am unable to drag and drop guides in Windows to Explorer to create a snippet. I have to select the guides, then use File>Export>Snippet.

      But it works

    • May 16, 2012 at 9:42 am #62191
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      I am having trouble with this. I'm currently using CS4. I select my guides on a left hand page of a spread and export them as a snippet. When I try to place it on the page, if my grid orientation is set to page, the guides land on the right hand page of my spread instead of the left (I am sure I have the left hand page selected and I have position at original location selected in preferences). If my grid orientation is set to spread, the left hand guides place correctly, but now my right hand page guides also go to the left hand page instead of the right. If I select the guides on the whole spread and the orientation is spread, it works just fine. But I want to keep them separate in case my layout requires only one or the other. Am I missing something?

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