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Turn paths into guides with the right click menu "Make guides" like in Illustrator.

Pretty self explanatory. It's very useful for example if you need a marquee or an odd shape to serve you as a guide and most importantly, the snapping in InDesign between a line and a guide is so different and so hard to snap to a path.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Did this ever get fixed? Love to have this feature in InDesign would be so helpful like the right click in Illustrator.

  • Omar commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You can do this somehow by going to Window>Utilities>Scripts
    And when on the scripts panel, Application>Samples>AppleScript and double click on AddGuides

  • Anssi Kumpula commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I need this. I need easy and fast made custom made guides in Illustrator from simple rectangle shapes, and I need this in InDesign. Why it's still — after years — not available on InDesign?

  • LRSmith commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, please. In fact, I wish InDesign and Illustrator could be combined into one Super app. I keep going back and forth landing on one of them to finish my layouts.

  • Taylor commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I've decided that I can just create a bounding box, or a shape, and click "Lock", but it won't have snap-to functionality.

  • Vishu Aggarwal commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Add the feature...like we can align to guides in the illustrator, but same can't be achieved in Indesign

  • nicky commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Ability to convert tracks to GUIDE as already happens in Illustrator. Function that is missing and in my opinion very useful to determine reference guides with traced shape, oblique etc ... evaluate this proposal.

  • RY commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please! Currently working on a document with multiple diagonals on master page meant to act as guides. Having to work around the fact that it won't snap the path by putting intersecting vertical and horizontal guides at each point I want the shapes to be able to snap to. Illustrator has this feature is it so hard to introduce it into InDesign?

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