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Where is the Guides Layer?

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SETTING UP A NEW DOCUMENT Units & Display Performance preferences let you choose your measurement system. Using guides and grids Guides help you align text and graphic objects. You can create ruler guides (straight vertical or horizontal lines) and guide objects (vector objects that you convert to guides). You can choose guide styles and color. By default, guides are unlocked, and can be moved, modified, or deleted. Lock guides in place by choosing View > Guides > Lock Guides. Additional indicators called Smart Guides assist you while you work. Align objects and artboards with each other using Smart Guides and see on-cursor readouts showing location coordinates. You can also see rotation angle, and relation to nearby objects according to your selection's edge rather than cursor position-continuously, while you transform your object. Smart Guide options are set up in the Preferences dialog box. Smart Guides preferences enable customization of Smart Guide behaviors and display. Tip: To emulate the snapping feature in FreeHand, activate Smart Guides in Illustrator by choosing View > Smart Guides. Smart Guides are temporary snap‑to guides that help you create, align, edit, and transform objects relative to other objects. Tip: You can perform simple math in any box that accepts numeric values using a single mathematical operator, such as + (addition), − (subtraction), x (multiplication), / (division), or % (percent). Smart Guides with on-object readouts enable fast, accurate positioning of objects in relation to each other. When you choose View > Show Grid, a grid appears behind your artwork in the illustration window. Change the spacing between gridlines, grid color, and grid style using the Preferences dialog box. Grids and guides do not print. Where is the Guides Layer? In FreeHand, there is a default layer called Guides that allows you to move guides over or under the artwork. In Illustrator, guides belong to the layer on which they were created; to emulate FreeHand's behavior, create a layer and name it Guides. You can add guides to that layer, turn the layer on or off, and move it over or under the layers of your artwork. FreeHandtoIllustratorMigrationGuide-SettingupaNewDocument18

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FreeHandtoIllustratorMigrationGuide
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SettingupaNewDocument18
SETTING UP A NEW DOCUMENT
Using guides and grids
Guides help you align text and graphic objects. You can create ruler guides
(straight vertical or horizontal lines) and guide objects (vector objects that you
convert to guides). You can choose guide styles and color. By default, guides
are unlocked, and can be moved, modified, or deleted. Lock guides in place by
choosing View > Guides > Lock Guides.
Additional indicators called Smart Guides assist you while you work. Align
objects and artboards with each other using Smart Guides and see on-cursor
readouts showing location coordinates. You can also see rotation angle, and
relation to nearby objects according to your selection’s edge rather than cursor
position—continuously, while you transform your object. Smart Guide options
are set up in the Preferences dialog box.
When you choose View > Show Grid, a grid appears behind your artwork in the
illustration window. Change the spacing between gridlines, grid color, and grid
style using the Preferences dialog box. Grids and guides do not print.
Where is the Guides Layer?
In FreeHand, there is a default layer called Guides that allows you to move guides
over or under the artwork. In Illustrator, guides belong to the layer on which they
were created; to emulate FreeHand’s behavior, create a layer and name it Guides.
You can add guides to that layer, turn the layer on or off, and move it over or
under the layers of your artwork.
Tip:
To emulate the snapping feature
in FreeHand, activate Smart Guides in
Illustrator by choosing View > Smart
Guides. Smart Guides are temporary
snap-to guides that help you create,
align, edit, and transform objects relative
to other objects.
Tip:
You can perform simple math in any
box that accepts numeric values using a
single mathematical operator, such as +
(addition), − (subtraction), x (multiplication),
/ (division), or % (percent).
Units & Display Performance preferences let
you choose your measurement system.
Smart Guides preferences enable customization
of Smart Guide behaviors and display.
Smart Guides with on-object readouts enable fast,
accurate positioning of objects in relation to each other.