Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro

Guide Manager Pro provides a quick method for creating a grid of evenly spaced guides on pages and spreads.

QuarkXpress example guides grid Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro

Guide Manager Pro makes it easy to create a grid like this one

To create a grid on the active page or spread:

  1. Choose Create Grid from the Guides palette menu.
    QuarkXpress db create grid Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro

    Create Grid controls

  2. In the Gridlines area, check Horizontal and/or Vertical.
  3. If you want the guides to start at a specific location, for example within the margins, check the Start and/or End fields and then enter the distance from the page edges to start and end the guides.
  4. To create evenly spaced guides, choose Number and enter the number of guides you want in the field. To create guides that are a specific distance apart, choose Step and enter the distance in the field.
  5. Use the Type, Range, Color, View Scale, and Locked controls as you do in the Guide Attributes dialog box (see “Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro“).
  6. Click Preview to see the grid on-screen, and then click OK.

Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro