cameronmcefee/guideguide-support — Issue #14: Improvement suggestion
Author: synthview
Created: 2012-02-19 18:10:56+00:00
State: open

Hello,
your plugin is fantastic for fast grid seting.
However, I’d like to suggest 2 improvements to make your plugin perfect for webdesign:

1. the first is about "remaining pixels". I’d find really useful (=read as necessary) to have the choice between giving priority to total width, or to exact column values. For instance, if I’m designing a new web page, I don't care having the total page’s width 2 or 3 pixels wider, but I really care having all the columns the same width. Actually to do that, I have to pre-calculate my selection’s width before launching your script, and it’s a pain.

2. it would be a killer feature to be able to generate 1 pixel-wide lines on a new layer and not guidelines only. As a guideline stays between pixels, you can’t place a guideline in the middle of your gutter, but you have to place 2 of them (you imagine the visual mess).
Why should I do this?
As on the web your elements are inside rectangular DIVs, it’s handy to have a limit for texts and another for its box’s padding.
If possible, the best would be to have a 1pixel-wide dotted line, and to be able to chose its colour.

Thanks