Unhelpful Guides

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Unhelpful Guides

I have some issues with the guides in Keynote. 1) They always show up on top of objects, completely obscuring the object if it is a 1 pt. horizontal or vertical line directly under the guide, making it difficult to select directly. (when you put the mouse over the line, the 'move guide' tool always appears) 2) There seems to be no option to hide the guides. 3) when using the color selection pallet for guide the 'opacity' option disappears. Gee, if I could set the opacity to less than 100% at least I could see objects underneath the guides!

This rant was more of a suggestion than a question and I also posted it to Apple's feedback page. I posted it here in case anybody had any helpful ideas.

iMac 24", Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Dec 27, 2006 6:08 PM

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Answer 1

Tulse

Level 5

5,812 points

Dec 29, 2006 10:43 PM in response to David Richmond

The guides can be hidden -- the option is in the Keynote Preferences, under Rulers. There is unforunately no hotkey option to make them appear and disappear.

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Answer 2

Dec 29, 2006 11:41 PM in response to Tulse

I'm not seeing it in the prefs, (v3.0.2), I see "Show guides at object center" and "Show guides at object edges", and the color box, but none of those make the guides go away.

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Answer 3

dook

Level 1

75 points

Dec 30, 2006 4:58 AM in response to David Richmond

I'm not seeing it in the prefs, (v3.0.2), I see "Show
guides at object center" and "Show guides at object
edges", and the color box, but none of those make the
guides go away.

Make sure both of those options are not selected.

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Answer 4

Dec 30, 2006 9:03 AM in response to dook

I'm not seeing it in the prefs, (v3.0.2), I see

"Show

guides at object center" and "Show guides at

object

edges", and the color box, but none of those make

the

guides go away.

Make sure both of those options are not selected.

I did, but the guides are still there.

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Answer 5

Kyn Drake

Level 7

21,597 points

Dec 30, 2006 9:26 AM in response to David Richmond

Are you putting guides on your master slide or on each individual slide? If you put the guides on the master, they will only show up when you're attempting to align something. And, since they're on the master, you can't accidentally select them to move them either.

If there's a certain object that you DON'T want aligned, hold down the command key before you click and drag and it won't snap to the guides.

I used this in order to create the shapes on this page.

http://web.mac.com/makentosh/iWeb/tipsfromtheiceberg/Blog/98EAF0E6-F09D-43F4-90E 9-CD258FB62A81.html

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Answer 6

Dec 30, 2006 3:46 PM in response to Kyn Drake

There is only one slide. I may be dealing with the 'master' slide, I don't know, I really just wanted to use Keynote as a drawing program for a quick little task, which it probably wasn't meant for. Anyway, it seems like the guide functionality in Keynote is still a long way off from maturity, I hope they address some of this stuff in future updates.

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Answer 7

Kyn Drake

Level 7

21,597 points

Dec 30, 2006 6:15 PM in response to David Richmond

Under "View" choose "Show Master Slides". If you then place guides there, when you choose "Hide Master Slides" those guides won't be in your way. Keynote might not be a drawing program, but almost all the imagery on my site I've done in Keynote 🙂

http://www.makentosh.com

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Answer 8

Dec 31, 2006 4:37 PM in response to Kyn Drake

That graphic of Mario is very cool.

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Answer 9

Kyn Drake

Level 7

21,597 points

Dec 31, 2006 6:30 PM in response to David Richmond

Thanks! Perhaps the next version of Keynote will have a grid and I won't have to work around it like this 🙂

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