Change guides color and dashing

Build 1501 on 14/Nov/2017  This topic last edited on: 17/Mar/2016, at 16:50

On the Edit menu, click Preferences, and then on the Grid tab, select colors and dashing for the user defined (layer) guides and master guides. The user defined guides are the guides you add on the layer level. The master guides are defined on the master.

Color of the page margins is dark red. You cannot change it.

You cannot set the bleed and slug area color, but you can add nonprinting boxes in any color to every master to simulate bleed and slug area (if required).

Click to toggle expandMaster guides in more than one color

Fred4 natively does not support multi-colored guides. Anyway, you can simulate them by adding to every page a layer for colored guides, and then use the thin colored rules to simulate guides, by drawing them manually, or by dragging them from a custom library of objects.

Then, to hide those guides, just hide the  "guides layer" on the Layers palette.

Of course, "guides layer" must not be printed. Therefore your printing script has to be amended by adding to it the command that will hide the layer with guides before printing, and show it after the printing is over. An example of such modification could be:

HideShowLayer "guides",0

PdfGenerate ""

HideShowLayer "guides",1

 

The above example requires a custom function you can put in the CUSTOMPAGE.VB:

Sub HideShowLayer (layername,isvisible)

   dim currentlayer as Integer = page.GetCurLayer

   For x =  0 To Page.GetLayersCount-1

    page.layerselect (x)

      If Page.GetLayerName = layername Then

        page.LayerToggleVisible (isvisible)

      End If

    Next

    page.layerselect (currentlayer)

End Sub