Hi, I’d like to create an action that sets guides 3cm from each edge of a file regardless of its size BUT I don’t know how to. Any help would be gratefully received.
Set units to cm. View>New Guide, make guides at 3cm, on the left and top. Image>Rotate 180. This will place the guides on the right and bottom. At the left and bottom. Create new guides 3 cm from the left and top again. That’s it.
This is in CS and below. If there is a better way in later versions I don’t know it.
You would probably need to do this using a script if you don’t want to do it manually.
When you choose "New Guide" from the View menu you can specify the orientation and position of a guide, but you will have to work out manually where the 3 CM position is for the right hand and bottom should be. For example if you have a document which is 39 CM by 27 CM, you would specify 3 CM for the left and top guides, but you would need to subtract the 3 CM figure from the width and height of the document to ascertain the the position of the other guides, which, in this example, would be 36 CM for the right hand guide and 24 CM for the bottom guide.
It would be possible to script this function to asses the size of a document and the place the guides as required.
There may also be some scripts or action on the Adobe Exchange which might already do this.
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