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Posted on 24/10/06 8:36:58 PM
paul_2006
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Placing guides with an action.
Hi.

I need to place 4 guidelines on images to help me crop them ready for printing.

They need to be a fixed distance, 3.75cm, from each edge regardless of the image size.

Top and left are no problem but how can I get the bottom and right ones in the correct position.

When I recorded the action, after positioning the top and left guides I moved the ruler origin to the bottom right of the image and then added the right and bottom guides.

Looking at the recorded action I could see it placed the right and bottom guides with a negative distance. Great I thought. This should work.

Not so great. It didn't record the fact I moved the origin, so when I play the action on a new file, half of my guides are outside of the image area as the negative values for positioning them are based on 0,0 being top left

Is there a way round this?

Posted on 24/10/06 11:54:16 PM
paul_2006
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Re: Placing guides with an action.
Well I have found one way around it.

Do the top and left guides then rotate the image 180 degrees and do top and left again

Posted on 25/10/06 00:55:10 AM
David Asch
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Re: Placing guides with an action.
Now there's lateral thinking..literally!

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Posted on 25/10/06 11:11:18 PM
Pierre
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Re: Placing guides with an action.
Clever man you are!

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