Looking at the "Default New Doc Sizes" file in Photoshop’s "Required" folder should give you a clue. The presets with guides have trailing numbers and "h" and "v" corresponding to horizontal and vertical guides, respectively. However, it appears that guides can only be placed at percentage-based locations. So, for example, "5.0 h 10.0 v" would place a horizontal guide at 5% and a vertical guide at 10%.
Hope that answeres your question.
Simon,
the only way i’ve seen to do it is with a "template" approach. Create and save an empty file with the guides in place to use as a template. Open the template and immediately do a "Save As" to rename it (or duplicate document) when you need to use it. You might also want to make it "Read Only" by checking it’s property in windows explorer so you don’t accidentally overwrite it.
dave
Guys
Thanks for the responses, I’ll give them a go.
Cheers
Simon
Ooh! I didn’t know that trevor (don’t know when I’ll USE it, but it’s good to know! <g>)
BTW, nice message clustering! 🙂
Thanks, dave
"BTW, nice message clustering!"
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Trevor Morris – 05:15am Jan 13, 2004 Pacific (#2 of 6)
dave milbut – 05:16am Jan 13, 2004 Pacific (#3 of 6)
Hey Trevor, just wanted to let you know that I added a new item into the New Doc Sizes as suggested, set the guides at the right % and it worked no problems.
Thanks for your help.
Simon
Dave:
😉
Simon:
Out of curiousity, which platform are you using (Mac or PC)? If PC, what text editor are you using?
I am using the PC and I used Visual Interdev to edit the text as Notepad didn’t display the text correctly.
Thanks Simon. I was curious because any modifications that I make to the "Default Doc Sizes" file – even just resaving it – does not work (i.e. Photoshop fails to recognize the file and hence my preset list is virtually empty). I have tried editting it with TextPad and with UltraEdit, neither of which worked…has anyone else tried?
trevor, chris said that cs’s file uses unicode text. i think wordpad can handle unicode, but haven’t tested it.
Yeah, I knew that, and both TextPad and UltraEdit both support Unicode. I just tried it in WordPad (opening as Unicode) and it appears as Japanese/Chinese characters (excuse my ignorance).
