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Adobe XD: Feature Requests (Read-Only): 01 : Design mode

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Drag guides from anywhere

It would be great to be able to drag guides from anywhere, not just the top and left of an art board. Sometimes I am editing a master component on the pasteboard and I cannot grab any guides. Other times I am zoomed in or at the bottom of a long page and I have to zoom out go and grab a guide and then find my place again. I would like to be able to get guides no matter where I am, I am thinking of allowing them to be pulled out globally from the top of the interface where the home/design/prototype buttons are and from the left where the layers/tools are.

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  • Kristian Pettyjohn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Not having the quick ability to drag guides from the bottom on tall artboards (which what isn't today), makes horizontal guides all but unusable. Such a simple feature, so much frustration.

  • mjb commented  ·   ·  Report

    XD is incredibly inconsistent with the way its interface behaves. It breaks every rule in the book of UI design. The people responsible should read Nielsen or Raskin urgently.

    I won't go into an in-depth list of inconsistencies and plain incongruencies, that's not my job, it's Adobe's, but as an example:

    - I select something in the layer stack
    - I paste something
    - the pasted element is placed at the very top of the layer stack independently of what I had selected.

    Then:
    - I select something which is inside a group in the layer stack
    - I paste something
    - the object is pasted UNDERNEATH the selected object
    ?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?

    this kind of behaviour is inexcusable and shabby.

    While I'm at it, stop reinventing the wheel.

    Every other Adobe product has rulers and guides that work perfectly well. Why change the way they work in XD? why the inconsistencies within the Adobe suite?

    It's beyond frustrating to have to scroll all the way up to the top of a several thousand-pixel high artboard just to drag a horizontal guide down to where I'm working, especially when this hasn't been a problem in any other software of the last 25 years!

  • mjb commented  ·   ·  Report

    Interface consistency

    XD is incredibly inconsistent with the way its interface behaves. It breaks every rule in the book of UI design. The people responsible should read Nielsen or Raskin urgently.

    I won't go into an in-depth list of inconsistencies and plain incongruencies, that's not my job, it's Adobe's, but as an example:

    - I select something in the layer stack
    - I paste something
    - the pasted element is placed at the very top of the layer stack independently of what I had selected.

    Then:
    - I select something which is inside a group in the layer stack
    - I paste something
    - the object is pasted UNDERNEATH the selected object
    ?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?

    this kind of behaviour is inexcusable and shabby.

    While I'm at it, stop reinventing the wheel.

    Every other Adobe product has rulers and guides that work perfectly well. Why change the way they work in XD? why the inconsistencies within the Adobe suite?

    It's beyond frustrating to have to scroll all the way up to the top of a several thousand-pixel high artboard just to drag a horizontal guide down to where I'm working, especially when this hasn't been a problem in any other software of the last 25 years!

  • david stein commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes - make rulers persistent like other CC apps and also the way in which one can grab a guide from any where on the ruler in Sketch could also be ideal.

    Why would anyone have to / want to zoom out when they're near the bottom of an artboard and have to pull a guide from the top?

  • 岩井直人 commented  ·   ·  Report

    XDのガイドを引くときにアートボードの上部まで戻って引き直すのが面倒です。

    デザイン画面の上部から引けるようにしてほしい

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Report

    I've finally bit the bullet on Adobe Subscription. Started working in XD and immediately noticed how stupid this guides implementation is! Put them to the edge of the window not the friggin artboard!

  • Florian Pürschel commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is really a frustrating topic. When you're working in the middle or bottom of an artboard the it is incredibly interrupting to scroll to the top of the artboard, then drag a guide somewhere near you need it and finally place it at the correct position. This needs to be fixed asap

  • Matza commented  ·   ·  Report

    Sorry, but is there a trick do set guides on bottom of the page and zoomed in, so that no borders of the page are visible? There have to be a trick otherwise i can't explain why Adobe didn't changed this till now … and just 12 votes …

  • Some Guy Online commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey you know what would be a great idea, if you could use guides to guide from any side of the art board, so the user does not have to constantly zoom in or zoom out; even better, why not ALLOW GUIDES TO BE DRAGGED FROM THE TOP OF THE SCREEN AND LEFT OF THE SCREEN ON THE GLOBAL LEVEL LIKE SAY PS!

  • Dashanan commented  ·   ·  Report

    A designer needs to be able to quickly pull-in and push-out a guide while at any level of zoom on the artboard.

  • Matza commented  ·   ·  Report

    At the moment just vertical guides are possible to drag from the left, when I'm zoomed in. Please make horizontal guides to drag from the top (and bottom) and vertical guides also from the right. At the moment, I have to zoom out, place the guide horizontal guide and zoom in to place it exactly. Two unnecessary steps that make me slow …!! These small missing things make me wonder how the Adobe XD crew do not realize …