Lost text line 'guides' in the text box, how to show hidden paths

[K***@adobeforums.com]

I have managed to loose the text line guides (the blue little guide that shows the path/line the text is typed on) and I cannot remember how to get it back. In illustrator the control H command shows/hides the text bounding box and line guide, but in ID only the box is affected. It is especially annoying when you are trying to type text on a path, and the path you are trying to click on is invisibele.

Please help.

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Do you mean you have lost the page grid (View > Grids and Guides) or have you lost all page guides, in which case you have probably slipped into preview mode. With nothing selected hit W. Or click on the last tool in the toolbox.

k

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for your reply Ken. No, what I mean is... imagine making a text box, put in some type in it, you have the square around the box denoting how large the text box is, then you also have the lines denoting each line of type inside that text box.

The same goes if I make a design using the pen tool. I can see the blue line when I am in the process of making the deisgn, but when selected with the selection tool all I get is the blue boundary box where the squiggly line I made is contained.

Make more sense?

[K***@adobeforums.com]

None whatsoever.

"then you also have the lines denoting each line of type inside that text box."

Not that I've ever seen.

Unless, I wonder if you mean "greeking" which is when type below a determined size is replaced by a grey bar. But you can't type on it because there is already type there.

I know what you mean for the pen tool. If you use the selection tool you see the boundary box only, but if you select it with the direct selection tool (white arrow) you will see the line inside.

k

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Or are you talking about the baseline grid? View > Grids and guides > Show baseline grid.

k

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Sorry for the confusion... take a look at this image and it will be clear. <Loading Image...>

Thansk!!

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Are you seeing them just in the text frame, or do they extend across the whole page?
What version of InDesign?

k

[K***@adobeforums.com]

That's Baseline Grid.

[K***@adobeforums.com]

But it should show outside the frame - unless he's put it right on the edge of the page and the page has got no margins.

k

[unknown]

You can set a baseline grid for a single text frame.

Bob

[K***@adobeforums.com]

How do you display it?

k

[Robert Tkaczyk]

there is no option to show only for TextFrames or only for Page - both or none

robin

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Robert Levine - That was it! The baseline grid for one text frame solves my dilemma.

Thank you all for playing! :)

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Now I'm stumped. How are you displaying the baseline grid for a single frame?

k

[j***@adobeforums.com]

Sure, it is possible -- use "white" as grid color for 'all' frames, and Layer color or a custom one for the single one you want to see.

I can't imagine how you accidentally can set this.

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Or why you would want to do it deliberately.

k