Apply to selected pages guides of the specified page

[Jensen Head]

Is it possible to manually set guides for several pages in PDF-XChange Editor, using one page as a template?

I understand that in general pages can be of different sizes. But in my case, most often the documents consist of pages of the same size. It would be convenient for me to select the page with the largest filling, drag the guides from the rulers to the document so as to outline the area with data, and distribute these guides to all selected pages of the document or the entire document. This is necessary for the final formatting of documents saved in PDF without preparing the layout at a sufficiently high level, and when the original document is not available.

I tried exporting and importing guides, but when importing, you cannot specify pages, they are rigidly tied to the original ones. That is, the .xcgls file is like a document from which all data has been removed, except for the guides themselves.

It would be convenient for me to select the pages in the thumbnails panel before dragging the guides from the rulers.

Or the page in the thumbnails panel would have a "Copy guides" action, which could then be pasted into the selected pages. Some kind of analog of copying formatting styles when editing text.

If the page sizes are different, you can focus on the percentage of the page length. Or the linear distance from the origin of the page coordinates. Probably, the user should be given a choice between these two options.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Jensen Head

Thank you for the post. I do not believe there is a way to do this currently, but I have passed it along to the Dev team for consideration.

Kind regards,

[rakunavi]

Hello Jensen Head,

Since PDF-XChange Guide Lines files (*.xcgls) are in text format, you can edit them as much as you like. For example, if you create an autohotkey (v1) script that creates a guideline for a specified number of pages from a one-page guideline file, it would look something like this.

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#NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
; #Warn  ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

FileSelectFile, SelectedFile, 3, , Open File, PDF-XChange Guides Lines (*.xcgls)
if ErrorLevel
	ExitApp
FileSelectFile, OutputFile, 2, , Save File As, PDF-XChange Guides Lines (*.xcgls)
if ErrorLevel
	ExitApp
InputBox, TotalPages, Total Pages
if ErrorLevel
	ExitApp
FileRead, input, %SelectedFile%
RegExMatch(input, """\d+"" : {(.+])\n", match, 1)
Output := "{`n"
Loop, % TotalPages
{
	Output .= "`t""" . (A_Index-1) . """ : {" . match1 . "`n`t}"
	if (A_Index!=TotalPages)
		Output .= ",`n"
	else
		Output .= "`n}"	
}
FileAppend, %Output%, %OutputFile%.xcgls

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• SampleFiles.zip

Best regards,
rakunavi

[Jensen Head]

@rakunavi, thank you, this is too similar to magic not to be magic.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

[Jensen Head]

I have passed it along to the Dev team for consideration.

What was her verdict?

[mCHSNUg5Pz8cPap]

I have passed it along to the Dev team for consideration.

What was her verdict?

Wasn't this enabled with the addition of the duplicate guides option?

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, mCHSNUg5Pz8cPap

Indeed it was - you beat me by a few minutes:

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Kind regards,

[Jensen Head]

Wasn't this enabled with the addition of the duplicate guides option?

Thank you for letting me know about adding the suggested feature! And to the Tracker Software team, for their excellent work!

[Sean - PDF-XChange]