Dragging guides

Hi, I'm trying to learn InDesign and I have the Adobe Indesign CC classroom in a book.
It says that when you want to drag a guide from a ruler you should drag a ruler guide down and the value is displayed next to the pointer while you are dragging it. That 's not happening. What am I doing wrong?

So, it makes a guide, but you can't see the X or Y position number updating as you drag? It should be doing that, so does this happen on all documents, or just the one you are working with at the moment? Try with a new document and with a previously-saved doc to see. If it's not working in any doc, try this: Troubleshooting 101: Replace, or "trash" your InDesign preferences

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Dragging guides out crashes Indesign CC

Hi,
I've just updated to Indesign CC and whenever I try to drag guides out onto my document the programme crashes. Any ideas?
I am on a Mac Pro 3.1 running Mountain Lion with a quadro 4000

Thanks for getting back to me Michael.
The update appeared in Creative Cloud shortly after you answered and has solved the problem.
Kind of you to assist. Thank you.

I am unable to get dragging guides from rulers when using CS6 InDesign. Is anybody else getting this problem?

I am unable to get dragging guides from rulers when using CS6 InDesign. Is anybody else getting this problem?

Try restoring your InDesign preferences:
Trash, Replace, Reset, or Restore the application Preferences

Dragging guides from rulers in CS6 InDesign

I am unable to get "dragging guides from rulers" when using CS6 InDesign. Is anybody else having this problem?

I tried restoring my InDesign preferences, but it still doesn't work. I used both the Ctrl+Atl+Shift method and the manual method (by replacing the files), but the draggable guides are still not showing. I have made sure to turn guides on in the settings as well. I've looked everywhere online and the only conclusion I can come up with is that it's a bug. By the way I'm using Windows 8. The strange thing is that my Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop are working fine (including guides), however InDesign has been causing problems, so there has to be something wrong with the program. But I don't know what it is

Keeping Boxes Active while dragging Guides

I am just starting to use AI CC version 18.0.0. In previous versions (CS 5.5) you could click on a box and the six little boxes would show...one on each corner and two in the middle. Then you could easily bring guides to the center of the box by dragging them to the center boxes. In the new version, the box does not stay active when I drag out a guide. Does anyone have a workaround? Thank you.

Ava,
It just occurred to me that the issue may be the Live Rectangle bug that is limited to one of the MAC versions starting with 10.7 and 10.8, but not 10.9 (Mavericks), see this thread linked to below.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1595973
So a switch to Mavericks with a reinstallation might be the way to solve it here and now.
It is possible to Expand the Live Rectangles to get normal old fashioned rectangles.
A way round that is to create normal old fashioned rectangles, after running the free script created by Pawel, see this thread with download link:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1587587

INDD Guides dragged from Ruler stop showing sporadically

Working on a iMac 27.5", Retina, OS 10.10.1 in InDesign CC
Dragging guides from ruler, suddenly the guides stop showing right in the middle of working on a document. And no, I didn't change any preferences or settings. Also, on a multi-page document, the guides will show on one page but not on another.
Aaaarrgh! Frustrating!!!
Anyone know how to fix this?
Help?

Is it only ruler guides, and not margin and column guides? And the shortcut Cmd+; (semicolon) doesn't make them hide/and/show?
It isn't because you are in Preview mode, is it?
The only time I have ever had quirky trouble with guides was whenever I made a new document, and in the new document dialog box, I had turned on the Preview switch. If I leave that off, I don't see the come-and-go problem of disappearing guides.

Facing issue in PDF print on using Guided Navigation Link on dashboard

Hi,
I am facing one issue on using Guided Navigation Link on dashboard.
I have created one Guided Nav. Link on dashboard and renamed it as "RAW DATA".
It was working fine.It is coming as RAW DATA link and when I am clicking on the link it is drilling down.
Till now it is working fine and good.
But in Printer friendly option of dashboard when I am selecting PDF option( To save it as PDF) it was showing text "Guided Nav Link 1" instead of "RAW DATA" in the downloaded pdf.
Please give me some solution.
Thanks in Advance
Santanu Manna

Try this:
1) Drag Guid. Nav. Link to dashboard in a new section.
2) Click on properties of the Guid. Nav. Link object.
3) For the source request, click on browse and navigate to the report.
4) In the Link Properties, check the "Use Dashboard Oject name as link object" checkbox and click "OK."
5) Click on the Rename button of the Guid. Nav. Link object.
6) Type in the name you wish to appear in the link and click "OK."
When you click on Print>PDF, the name of the link will appear in the pdf instead of "Guid. Nav Link 1."

Is it possible to lock guides to each other? Or make selections based on guides??

Hi,
I am curious if there is a way to lock guides to one another. By this I mean: lets say I have a guide at 10px down and another at 20px. I am looking for a way to lock them, so if I move the first guide down 5px the second guide will move with it and continue to maintain the 10px gap.
Also I am wondering if there is a way to make selections based on guides. For example, I want to make a selection that starts at the top guide and goes to the bottom guide.
Thanks to anyone that can help!
G

There is no way to link guides directly. Here are some guide tips for you which may help…
• Setting the ruler increment can be done by control clicking (yes control) on the rulers themselves,
• Holding down the SHIFT key while dragging guide lines will snap those guides to ruler increments. So if you have pixels selected as the increment as in the tip above you can easily snap quides to 10 pixel steps. Where the guides will snap (how fine the increment) is dependant on how close you are zoomed.
• As Christoph has said, you can snap to Guides - so in your example a 10 pixel marquee selection, definable in the marquee tool options bar (fixed size) can easily be snapped to a guide, and then another guide can be snapped to that. With the move tool active this is a very easy process

Guide behaviour

I do not always like the way guides behave. I would like to see these options:
Option to put guides on dedicated layer automatically.
If this layer is locked it should still be possible to add guides to it, but not to change them without unlocking them.
Option to exclude guides from marquee-style selection (drag selection)
I liked the dedicated guide editor panel in Freehand a lot, maybe something like this could be added to AI as well. (A separate guides layer would go half-way towards this wish.)
The best feature I ever saw in respect to guides comes from a freeware program, Google Sketchup: There is an option to change guides (and other geometry, btw) immediately after creating them by just typing the numerical position value. This would easily work for horizontal and vertical guides, and is *very* handy. Actually, their whole concept to drag guides out of any straight path is quite impressive. Talk about ease of use. (Please note that I do not compare AI to Sketchup as a whole, of course, just this single feature and their general attitude towards usability.)

Blasted blank emails. I tried to edit the blank email and was told I don't have permission to do so.
This is what it should have said:
No Bob. That's a document-wide setting isn't it? This happens inconsistently through the document.
I've got a step closer. At some time in history the document was set up with an A master which simply defined page dimensions, and a B master which added running footers. All the other masters are based on the B master.
If I base the B master on [None] instead of A, and then format the guides in the B master, fewer pages act erratically.
In fact it looks now as if just a couple of pages are misbehaving. These use masters which change the number of columns from the B master they are based on. But another master in the set, which differs only by the running head, behaves properly.
So unless someone can point to a rule that says don't change the number of columns when basing masters on another, this will remain a mystery with somewhat less of an irritation than half an hour ago.
k

Rulers, the grid, and guides

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-74cda.h tml

polymechmanasdsafafsfa wrote:
I want to know how to specify a guide position AFTER changing the origin. I have moved zero, yet every time I drag or specify a guide, it shows or places in the reference to the original origin. NOT what I expected! CS6.
That bugs me, too. Thankfully, the X,Y coords in the Info Panel are relative to the rulers origin, but having to watch that defeats the purpose of the pointer coords display.
Other problems with coords...
The pointer coords display doesn't show when dragging the origin.
"View > Snap To > Layers" and "View > Snap To > Document Bounds" are ineffective when dragging the origin
"View > Snap To > Layers" is ineffective when dragging guides.
For some objects being dragged, the Info Panel coords will go blank when the pointer goes off the canvas.
When a transformation pivot is being dragged, the Info Panel coords do not update. The pointer coords display does update, but as noted above, that does not honour a non-default origin.
(Note to self: stop whatever I'm doing and report these problems as soon as they're noticed.)

How to always show rulers in Photoshop CS5 and other problems

Does anyone know how to make Photoshop CS5 always show rulers in mac? I have not have this issue with any other PS. I need the rulers to drag guides contantly, but photoshop cs5 would not show the rulers automatically. Everytime I have to go to View --> Show rulers or the shortcut command + R. Is there a way to instruct Photoshop to always show rules with any file I open or create?
I have many other issues with Photoshop CS5 that CS2, 3, and 4 had out of the box... It is very frustrating that I spent all this money and instead of working, I have been on the phone with Adobe for hours... I am very disappointed so far.
I have had CS5 Master's Collection for 2 months now on Mac 10.6.7. I have reinstalled Photoshop 3 times as some shortcuts were not working like shift plus scroll to inscrease to 100%, 200%, etc.
The other thing that still does not work and Adobe has not offered a solution is that my Photoshop would not append extensions. Regardless of the Preferences settings, all my files get saved as JPG instead of jpg... I wonder if any of you out there have this issue as well?
Thank you.

I believe my computer and its account are healthy. I just bought the mac pro with solid state and the only programs I have installed are the Master Collection CS5.
I have good news though - After two months of waiting, I was finally able to speak with Adobe specialists yesterday and they changed the shortcut for Save As that Photoshop ships with from Command + Alt + S to Command + Shift + S - and miraculously now Photoshop appends extensions!!!
However, my question about always displaying rulers remains. We got disconnected and I didn't have a chance to ask them (I was on hold for an hour and a half!)

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Not all of the listed email recipients on my contact form are receiving the inquiries.    Muse allows me to add several email addresses separated by a semi-colon (see below from Corey Wrote) but only one of the three addresses are receiving the contact form inquiries.
Corey@Adobe wrote:
Forms
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Are there plans to update livecycle designer to conform with the CC Family of Tools?

I am relatively new to using adobe LiveCycle Designer. I have to say it's a pretty great piece of software. There are some things in it that really bother me though.
For example, you can't just drag guides from the rulers. There's no smart guides. The shortcuts that work in every other program don't work for LC.
The design is 1990 ish and a myriad of other small annoyances. I was just wondering if Adobe has plans to rework LCD to conform to the CC Family Standards.
Don't get me wrong LiveCycle is the only program in it's class and has been a tremendous help. I just feel it's not up to adobe standards.
Also, Where's the mac version? I've been having to run ES3 in VMWare due to the fact I only wanted LC Designer and not all the other phooey that comes with it.

Hi,
Designer was initially a product from a company named JetForm which was acquired by Adobe in 2002 and its interface hasn't been changed that much by Adobe.
Here some hints for you:
If you double click a ruler you'll be able to edit the Drawing Aids.
You can set snap to grid or to guideline etc.
In ES3 and newer you also can activate orientation by page center or other objects which is quite similar to the smart guides you may know from InDesign.
Draging guides from the rulers also works, but only from the upper left corner, not for every ruler separately.
From the Extras menu you also can create your own shortcuts.
There has never been a MAC version of Designer and I think there never be one.

Photoshop CS4 constantly crashing in Bootcamp

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I am running Vista 32 on a 15" MacBook Pro through Bootcamp.
I installed CS4 and available updates, and even updated my video driver -- i am using an Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT.
My problem is that Photoshop crashes frequently during such benign tasks as dragging guides, creating new layers, etc, thus rendering the software unusable.
I've searched everywhere for known issues, followed the troubleshooting steps on Adobe's OpenGL and GPU support pages but nothing's seemed to work.
Any guidance offered is greatly appreciated.
Salvo

Check your mouse settings in the respective control panel! You may just need to lower the speed/ sensitivity. If you are on one of those newer MBPs, you may also need to disable the fancies of the trackpad.
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How does one "micro nudge" text boxes?

I am creating an extensive form fill-able PDF (a few hundred fields) and am using the "create multiple copies" button. The problem is when I create multiple copies it is impossible to get the fill fields to line up with the actual fields on the sheet (even with changing the height). I have to nudge them into place but there is normal nudge (arrow keys) and big nudge (shift and arrow keys), but I need a micro nudge. If micro nudge is possible in Acrobat pro what is the keyboard combo? I have tried click and drag with the mouse but 50% of the time I mis-align the fields with the other fields in the columns. Then I have to go through and re-align every field, which is really time consuming. A micro nudge would be the best way to go right now. Thank you ahead of time.
Bruce

Explore the other positioning possibilities that are available when you select multiple fields and right-click. Things like Distribute Vertically/Horizontally can save a lot of time.
Also, if you display the rulers (Ctrl+R), you can drag guides from them. When you drag a field or field border close to one, the field border will snap to the guide. The exact behavior depends where the cursor is in relation to the field borders when dragging fields.
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