guides from indesign to illy
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- spifflink
so i have a us letter sized document with an awesome grid setup in the guides and a 12pt baseline grid as well, but i'd like to take it into illustrator for this project i am working on, is there a way to easily take the guides over?
- monospaced0
nope
- damn it all to hellspifflink
- Couldn't be TOO hard to recreate. If it's text heavy and requires a baseline grid, keep it in InDesign and place the Illy file.monospaced
- Knuckleberry0
Maybe:
unlock guides
select all
cut
then paste in illy?- probably not thoughKnuckleberry
- that would be an easy waymonospaced
- it would be easy if it worked. this works from document to document in illy but not between apps so well. :(spifflink
- DeSiard0
import a screen shot into illustrator
- kinda defeats the PURPOSE of the guides with that method as they don't actually functionmonospaced
- yeah, but it'd give you an easy way to redo them.DeSiard
- doesnotexist0
just redo it
- yes i may just do that. why hasn't adobe addressed my laziness??spifflink
- philkiel0
print a PDF with the guides on?
- I looked for that option but couldn't find it in the export dialog anywhere.monospaced
- lajj0
Export your page in .pdf, make sure to check "visible Guides and Grid", open it in Illustrator, it will import your grid as strokes. Select the strokes and hit "command + 5"
bon appetit
- philkiel0
you cant do it in the Export bit, you have to "print" it
- where is this "Visible Guides and Grid" check box in the Print PDF dialog?monospaced
- horton0
not any help but a lot easier to do the other way with the Illy release guides cmnd.
- lajj0
- oh shit, we're not even TALKING about InDesign manmonospaced
- actually, we are...so that is helpfulmonospaced
- lajj0
command + 5 is to transform shapes into guides
- lajj0
hahaha sorry for the waste of time
- not a waste of time...that worksmonospaced
- ok nice, for a moment I thought I was going to be flamed for my poor english understandinglajj
- horton0
neat trick, never noticed the visible guides checkbox.
thanks lajj and phil.
- monospaced0
For all the years that I've been using Illustrator, I never knew that objects could be turned into guides. We all learn something.
- spifflink0
you guys are wonderful human beings
- noRBG0
I've had to do this before, and the solution is quite simple actually.
You will want to export your INDD file as a PDF, but you have to use a rather unknown functionality of the export dialog. There's a "Make Guides Visible" option that you can select/deselect.
When you open the PDF in Illustrator, the guides will be converted into strokes. Select one stroke, then go to the "Select" menu, and choose Same > Stroke Color. Then hit Apple+5, and it will release the shapes selected into active guides inside your Illustrator file.
Viola. Done.