On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> wrote:
For the people who use guides a lot: do you indeed like guides to become visible whenever you create them? (I would think so, but one never knows)
Yes - that's a nice touch. I rarely want to drag a guide out and have it vanish ;)
Recently, a GSoC project started working on guides, including adding a much improved Document Properties tab. Please hold off with big changes to guides and evaluate the UI after GSoC has finished.
I'm eagerly awaiting the results :)
FWIW, I have three main uses for guides:
1. Temporary. When designing a shape/object/layout/whatever I'll sometimes need temporary guides. Inkscape serves me quite well here. My only wish is an easier/quicker method to delete a single guide. I generally drag them back to the ruler.
2. Margins. Sometimes I'll want a bleed and/or safety or some other guide that is persistent. Wish list here is locking guides and/or assigning guides to layers. I try to keep the handles just outside of the work area and that works OK.
3. Shapes. Scenario: item with circular or complex imprint area (think sticker, balloon, door hanger, etc.). I want a non-printing guide for those. Illustrator has a 'Make Guide/Release Guide' set of functions that converts from paths to guides and vice-versa. I work around this with masks, or paths that I delete before sending to print.
But these are all trivial wishes that I assume would be non-trivial to implement ;) For the most part, I'm quite happy with the guides as they are.
Chris