Setting up guidelines

Guidelines are lines that can be placed anywhere in the drawing window to aid in object placement. In some applications, guidelines are known as guides.

There are three types of guidelines: horizontal, vertical, and slanted. By default, the application displays guidelines that you can add to the drawing window, but you can hide them at any time. You can also use objects as guides.

You can set guidelines for individual pages or you can set guidelines for the entire document. For more information about local and master guidelines, see “Local layers and master layers.”

You can add a guideline wherever you need one; however, you can also choose to add preset guidelines. There are two types of preset guidelines: Corel presets and user-defined presets. Examples of Corel presets include guidelines that appear at 1-inch margins and guidelines that appear at newsletter column borders. User-defined presets are guidelines whose location you specify. For example, you can add preset guidelines that display margins at a distance you specify or that define a column layout or grid. After you add a guideline, you can select it, move it, rotate it, lock it in place, or delete it.

You can have objects snap to the guidelines, so that when an object is moved near a guideline, it can only be centered on the guideline or lined up on either side of the guideline.

Guidelines use the unit of measure specified for rulers. For information about ruler settings, see “To customize ruler settings.”

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Guidelines can be placed in the drawing window to aid in object placement.


To display or hide the guidelines

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Click View CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Guidelines.
A check mark beside the Guidelines command indicates that the guidelines are displayed.

To add a horizontal or vertical guideline

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Click View CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Setup CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Guidelines setup.
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In the list of categories, click one of the following:
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Horizontal
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Vertical
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Specify the guideline settings you want.
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Click Add.

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You can also add a guideline by dragging from the horizontal or vertical ruler in the drawing window.

To add a slanted guideline

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Click View CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Setup CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Guidelines setup.
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In the Guidelines list of categories, click Guides.
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From the Specify list box, choose one of the following:
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2 points — lets you specify two points to be joined to create a guideline
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Angle and 1 point — lets you specify one point and an angle. The guideline crosses through the point at the angle specified.
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Choose a unit of measure from the list box.
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Specify the x and y coordinates and, if applicable, the angle.
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Click Add.

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You can also add a slanted guideline by dragging from the horizontal or vertical ruler in the drawing window, and typing a value in the Angle of rotation box on the property bar.

To use an object as a guide

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Click Tools CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Object manager.
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In the Object Manager docker, click the Guides layer on the page you want.
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Draw and position the object you want to use as a guide.

To set guidelines for the entire document

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Click Tools CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Object manager.
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In the Object Manager docker, click Guides on the Master page.
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In the drawing window, add the guidelines you want.

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The guidelines that you set on the Guides layer of the Master page appear on all pages of the document. These guidelines appear in addition to any guidelines that you set for individual pages.

To add preset guidelines

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Click View CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Setup CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Guidelines setup.
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In the Document, Guidelines list of categories, click Presets.
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Enable one of the following options:
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Corel presets
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User defined presets
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Specify guideline settings by enabling the corresponding check boxes.
If you enable the User defined presets option, specify values in the Margins, Columns, or Grid areas.
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Click Apply presets.

To modify guidelines

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Do the following
Select a single guideline
Click the guideline with the Pick tool CorelDRAW pgx pick tool Setting up guidelines.
Select all guidelines on a page
Click Edit CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Select all CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Guidelines. The local guidelines and master guidelines are selected.
Move a guideline
Drag a guideline to a new position in the drawing window.
Rotate a guideline
Using the Pick tool CorelDRAW pgx pick tool Setting up guidelines, click the guideline twice, and then rotate the guideline when skewing handles appear.
Lock a guideline
Click a guideline with the Pick tool, and click Arrange CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Lock object.
Unlock a guideline
Click a guideline with the Pick tool, and click Arrange CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Unlock object.
Delete a guideline
Click a guideline with the Pick tool, and press Delete.
Delete a preset guideline
Click View CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Setup CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Guidelines setup, and click Presets in the list of categories. Disable the check box beside the preset guideline that you want to delete.

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You can also lock or unlock a guideline by right-clicking the guideline and then clicking Lock object or Unlock object.
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You can access the guidelines setup directly by right-clicking a ruler and then clicking Guidelines setup.

To have objects snap to the guidelines

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Click View CorelDRAW onestep Setting up guidelines Snap to guidelines.
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Drag the object to the guideline.
To snap the center of an object to a guideline, select the object, and move it over the guideline until its center of rotation snaps to the guideline.

Setting up guidelines