Draw margin guides in Illustrator
Padding Guides v1.0.5
Draw a guide rectangle inset from every artboard — a safe area, a print margin or a content well.
Included in every subscription · Windows 10 and 11 · Illustrator 2020 and later
Release history
- v1.0.5 15 August 2026 Republished so the licence check finds the token after the desktop app was renamed in 1.0.26. The app's user-data folder moved from plugin-console to designer-shortcuts. The licence check injected into this plugin read the old path, found nothing, and showed its sign-in wall to customers who were signed in. It now accepts either name, for the token and for locating the app.
- v1.0.4 11 August 2026 Panels now sit at the top of the dock. The action bar follows the last control instead of being pushed to the panel's bottom edge, so a short panel no longer shows a band of empty space above its buttons. Command-key shortcuts now work in panel text fields on macOS. Cmd+C, Cmd+V, Cmd+X, Cmd+A and Cmd+Z were being taken by Illustrator before the panel could see them, so pasting into a field did nothing. Windows is unaffected. Added a FEATURES.txt summary of what the plugin does inside the extension.
- v1.0.3 8 August 2026 Panel title restored; licence check now runs in Illustrator.
- v1.0.2 8 August 2026 Signed, with licence verification.
- v1.0.1 5 August 2026 Initial release.
Every tool, one subscription
Padding Guides is one of the tools in Designer Shortcuts. The subscription covers all of them, including the ones not built yet.