Trigger "view guides" when adding one from rulers
Hey everyone, this might be a little request coming from a silly designer, let me explain :
When I was using illustrator guides lately, I found something that bugged me out, I tried to drag a new guide from the "rulers" on the corner of the canvas, I placed it where I wanted to, and to my surprise it wasn't showing, then I quickly remembered the "show guides" option inside the "view" tab was on "hide".
Of course it displayed every guide that I previously dragged in when I switched it to "show", but speaking in UX terms, it should be ideal to trigger 'show guides' option whenever this one is the opposite whilst adding a new guide from the rulers like is shown on the pictures below, freshers in illustrator could get lost easily ! (Speaking from personal experience lol )
Best Regards,
Tamir - UX/UI Student
Tamir Rojas Alvarez
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Egor, you described it perfectly ! Just by curiosity I checked if InDesign had the same behaviour and it did what an user would expect due to their intentional action of adding a new guide (trigger the "view guides" option)
Thanks for the thumbs up :) !
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Makes sense!
It will help us to avoid error with accidental guides (because we can immediately see these appear), and save us some nerves (because it it’s intentional, we definitely wanted to see guides).Illustrator should also a 'shy message' about Guides being shown, on a gray background at the top of the viewport, the same way it does when a Live Shape gets expanded.
