- setting a new origin for the ruler by pulling from the left top corner of the page.
- dragging in vertical and horizontal guidelines
- then going to tool to open the guidelines settings and going to vertical and horizontal settings windows and precisely moving the guidelines to values I enter. Plus entering new guidelines in those same vertical and horizontal guidelines windows.
Yes, thanks. I now see that double-click on the guide-line works, although it seems you have to remember to do a Duplicate first and reselect the line to move the duplicate a relative amount. it would be better if you didn't have to reselect the line after you duplicated it.
Let's say I want to put in 10 vertical guidelines evenly spaced. it looks like I would double-click the guideline to open the window. hit duplicate then check Relative change, then enter the X value, then Okay for the first one and then select the new one created and do the same thing for the next and next and next..... doesn't look like there is easy way to do that within the guideline double-click, although I guess the work around would be do it with another object tool, arraying a line or box or something and snap more guidelines the objects created, then delete the objects. Anything better than that?
Although honestly I don't know how often I would need multi guideline control. I'm just used to corel.
(btw, I posted a short video of how corel does it in the feature request part of this forum)
Let's say I want to put in 10 vertical guidelines evenly spaced. it looks like I would double-click the guideline to open the window. hit duplicate then check Relative change, then enter the X value, then Okay for the first one and then select the new one created and do the same thing for the next and next and next.....
I guess the work around would be do it with another object tool, arraying a line or box or something and snap more guidelines the objects created, then delete the objects. Anything better than that?
A slight improvement to this workflow would be:
Create straight Bezier paths where you want the guides. You can use the usual tools to position and distribute them. You can even use the tiled clones dialog if you want a lot of them or with complex positions, but you'll want to unlink them afterwards to turn them back into real paths.
With all these construction paths selected, Object > Objects to Guides.
The paths are still selected, press the Delete key to remove them.
Edit > Preferences > Tools has a "Keep objects after conversion to guides" option. Looks like the default is off, and I must have turned it on at some point. I rarely create objects purely for the purpose of turning them into guides, so I can see why I would have changed it from the automatic deletion behaviour. Depending on the state of this checkbox, therefore, the workflow becomes even simpler as there may not be a step 3.
Beyond the Basics Controlling guidelines in a table or list?
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It has been recommended that I ask this as an Inkscape feature request. I made a video showing: (unfortunately it didn't upload my audio.)
https://imgur.com/avoCzU5
- setting a new origin for the ruler by pulling from the left top corner of the page.
- dragging in vertical and horizontal guidelines
- then going to tool to open the guidelines settings and going to vertical and horizontal settings windows and precisely moving the guidelines to values I enter. Plus entering new guidelines in those same vertical and horizontal guidelines windows.
Mmmh - a double-click on a guide-line offers a bunch or opportunities. If that´s not enough maybe these extensions might help along:
https://inkscape.org/~jjbeard/★label-guides
https://inkscape.org/~Moini/★guide-creation-tools
Feature requests and bug reports can be submitted here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues
Yes, thanks. I now see that double-click on the guide-line works, although it seems you have to remember to do a Duplicate first and reselect the line to move the duplicate a relative amount. it would be better if you didn't have to reselect the line after you duplicated it.
Let's say I want to put in 10 vertical guidelines evenly spaced. it looks like I would double-click the guideline to open the window. hit duplicate then check Relative change, then enter the X value, then Okay for the first one and then select the new one created and do the same thing for the next and next and next..... doesn't look like there is easy way to do that within the guideline double-click, although I guess the work around would be do it with another object tool, arraying a line or box or something and snap more guidelines the objects created, then delete the objects. Anything better than that?
Although honestly I don't know how often I would need multi guideline control. I'm just used to corel.
(btw, I posted a short video of how corel does it in the feature request part of this forum)
This was addressed in a reply to your first post: https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/controlling-guidelines-in-a-table-or-list/#c17097
The guides generator extension can create but does not offer the tabular edit function.
A slight improvement to this workflow would be:
Object to Guides deletes the object (raster image or vector drawn shape) automatically here on macOS.
Edit > Preferences > Tools has a "Keep objects after conversion to guides" option. Looks like the default is off, and I must have turned it on at some point. I rarely create objects purely for the purpose of turning them into guides, so I can see why I would have changed it from the automatic deletion behaviour. Depending on the state of this checkbox, therefore, the workflow becomes even simpler as there may not be a step 3.
Haha - been into Preferences before posting but obviously missed the first entry. 😔 So all fine and dandy.