guide

A guide.

Property	Type	Access	Description
class	integer	read	The class descriptor type.
fit to page	boolean	r/w	If false, a horizontal guide will extend across all pages in the spread.
guide color	list of 3 fixed (0 – 255), UI colors enumeration	r/w	The color of the guide.
id	integer	read	A unique number identifying the object.
index	integer	read	Index of the object within its parent object.
item layer	layer	r/w	The layer the object is on.
label	string	r/w	A label that can be set to any string.
location	number or string	r/w	The location of the guide.
locked	boolean	r/w	If true, the object is locked.
object reference	object	read	An object reference for this object.
orientation	horizontal or vertical enumeration	r/w	The guide’s orientation.
overridden	boolean	read	If true, this object originated on a master spread, was overridden, and is still linked to the object on the master spread.
overridden master page item	page item, guide, graphic, movie, sound	read	A reference to the original object on the master spread (for overridden objects).
parent	object	read	The parent of the object.
properties	record	r/w	Property that allows setting of several properties at the same time.
view threshold	fixed (5 – 4000)	r/w	The guide’s view threshold.

Method	Returns	Description
delete	Nothing	Delete the object.
detach	Nothing	Detaches an overridden page item from the master page item.
duplicate	object	Duplicates the object.
extract label	string	Gets the content of the label associated with the specified key (name).
insert label	Nothing	Sets the content of the label associated with the specified key (name), creating the label if it does not already exist.
move	Nothing	Moves the guide.
override	page item, guide, graphic, movie or sound	Overrides an item from the master page and places it on the page.
remove override	Nothing	Removes a locally overridden master page item.
select	Nothing	Selects the object.