Managing Guides
• Click the + button to add a new guide
• Click the - button to remove the selected guide
• Click the Duplicate button to create a duplicate of the Guide
• Click the Color field to define the color for the selected guide
• Change the name for a guide in the Name field
To define a guide
When selecting a guide in the list, you can change its settings underneath
• Orientation: Vertical or Horizontal
• Relative to: the page box used as reference, or another guide
• Anchor Point: The reference point on the page box. Top/Center/Bottom for Horizontal guides,
Left/Center/Right for Vertical guides.
• Guide Name: if Relative to is set to "Other Guide", you can select a guide from the dropdown.
Only guides with the same orientation will be available. Moving a guide will also move the
guide(s) that are "Relative to" this guide.
Note:
If the "Relative to" guide is removed, the depending guide’s settings will change to Relative to
Media box
• Offset: Distance from the reference point. A positive value is to the top/right, a negative value
to the bottom/left.
• Mirror on even pages (only for vertical guides): mirror the guide horizontally over the center
line of the crop box on even pages
• Color: the representation color for the guide
To define or change a guide manually
You can change guides in the active Design Layout using the Edit Design Layout tool
• Click and drag a guide to move it.
• Click and drag the intersection of two guides to move them both
• Click and drag a guide holding the Shift key to create a duplicate
• Type V to add a vertical guide, or H to add a horizontal guide. The new guide will be centered
on the page.
Zones
Zones can be used to define a safety box and safe type zone, and for any other specific areas (punch
holes, etc.)
Safety box and safe type zone
The safety box is not really a page box in the strict sense of the word: it is not a page box type which
is stored in the PDF document. The safety box is a visual area which is a bit smaller than the trim
box. It contains all text, or other objects, which must always be visible on the printed and finished
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