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Creating More Guidelines
Follow these steps to finish off the template so you can get down to drawing characters for your font:
 Tutorial #2: Adding Guides
- With the Artistic Text selected with the Pick Tool, press CTRL+C to copy and then CTRL+V to paste the text in exact alignment with the original text.
- With the Text Tool, highlight both characters of the duplicate text, then type g, then type a hyphen.
- With the Pick Tool and the text selected, apply a color other than black so you can see what you’re doing; red is good.
- Drag a guideline from the horizontal Ruler to the point where the descender of the g ends.
- Drag a guideline to the bottom of the hyphen. Choose Window | Dockers | Object Manager for your next move. Now your screen should look like this illustration.
- Click-drag the Artistic Text titles, one at a time, to a position on the Object Manager directly below the Master Guides layer, as shown here. By doing this, you’ll have the characters you typed as a visual guide on all the pages you create for the different characters in your font.
- Lock the Master Guides layer from editing (and from accidentally moving the guide characters) by clicking its Pencil icon.
- Save the document again as a template (File | Save As Template), overwriting this file as it existed earlier.
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