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How do you get rid of these purple rules in InDesign. They look like tab lines or column rules. They are driving me nuts. These files are from China, so I am not sure what they have going on.
You help would be great!
budafist
10-16-2006, 08:41 PM
apple :
should do the trick. They're margins.
Unless the Chinese do things differently?
Oh wait I am Chinese! I'm lost then...
In the end it had something too do with the master files. I did something, but have now forgot what it was. Isn't that helpful.;)
doubting_thomas
10-17-2006, 05:29 PM
Late to the game, but...
Those purple lines are probably the Margins and/or Columns that were set
up using the New Document dialog box. There must be a way to get rid of them
once the document is made, but I don't know it.
capezio
10-18-2006, 10:20 AM
Are they guides that have been put in? if so just click them and drag off the page towards the ruler but make sure they aren't locked to the page otherwise they won't budge. I spent yonks trying to figure out why I couldn't get rid of some when I first came to ID from Quark
unchained
10-18-2006, 10:21 AM
I think view/screen mode/preview should work.
rickself
10-18-2006, 12:30 PM
Also, you can remove all ruler guides by simply going to "Layout->Create Guides->Remove Existing Ruler Guides" and that will take care of any guides that have been manually dragged onto the page.
Like Buda said, Apple-; or CTRL-; That will hide all guides and margins.
The purple guides are margins, as was speculated. The light blue ones are "user guides", that you've dragged in, and the dark blue ones are column guides.
Soccer37
10-18-2006, 10:40 PM
They could be margins. Also try looking in any master pages if they used those they could be put in there. You can go to Layout>Margins and Columns> and set those to 0 maybe that would work.