A powerful PowerScript to create Guides automatically using a flexible text based layout template system
Features
Template System
Examples
| Type in the column widths you want | 10mm | 95mm | 10mm | 95mm | 10mm |
| Add | to ends to add guides on the edge of the page | | 10mm | 95mm | 10mm | 95mm | 10mm | |
| Use auto to calculate the column width, this will create 3 columns, with 0.5cm gutters | 0.5cm | auto | 0.5cm | auto | 0.5cm | auto | 0.5cm |
| Use multiplying groups to repeat columns, below anything between the brackets is duplicated 3 times | 0.5cm | 3x(| auto | 0.5cm ) |
| Mix and match units - create 5 x 2 two inch wide columns with 0.1 inch gutters | | 0.1" | 5x(2inch | 0.1 in |) |
| Create fixed columns for Grids (turn on scale to width) | 30x(|0.5cm|) |
| Use autox as an auto multiplier to automatically calculate the number of items that can fit | 25mm | autox(|10mm|) | 25mm |
| 4 columns page, with 0.5cm gutters and 10mm gutters on outside edges | 10mm | 3x(auto | 0.5cm |) | auto | 10mm |
| Use percents, divide the Artboard into 5 columns 20% wide | 5x(|20%|) |
| Combine percentages with auto, 50% wide center column, then two 20% wide side columns | auto | 50% | auto | 20% | auto | 20% | auto |
| When creating lines (not guides) you can apply color Insert the color between two bars |color| as RGB:0,0,0 or CMYK:0,0,0,0 | 10mm |rgb:255,0,0| auto |cmyk:100,0,100,0| 10mm |cmyk:100,0,100,0| auto |rgb:255,0,0| 10mm |
| Use |none| to skip creating a guide | | 25% |none| 25% | 25% | 25% | |