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When selecting measurement units as mm, the rulers are mostly unusable, they don't seem to be designed for human use. Example - I want to set content at 5 and 10 mm from the edge. I was not able to easily do so by using a ruler. Neither 5mm nor 10mm are marked on it. Instead, the following values are highlighted: 4mm, 8mm, 12mm, 16mm Instead of being divided into 4 segments, its divided into 5, which results in the wrong values being highlighted. This makes absolutely no sense. In order for 10mm highlight to appear, I had to zoom for over 300%, which is ridiculous. It should be visible at default zoom. Here is a reference of how a mm ruler designed for humans looks like (from Adobe Illustrator): and here is whatever it is that Affinity is doing:

I've tried changing the units in Publisher to mm, but the ruler is subdividing in units of 4. So the larger markings are not for every 5 mm, but for every 4. So between a 20 mm gap there are 5 sections of markings, rather than 4, which is confusing. See images if this is as unclear as it sounds. Is there a way to fix this?

Hi all, I'm new to playing around with DTP, so this might be a very basic question. In Affinity Publisher I've created a new A4 document and turned on the option 'Show Rulers'. Looking at the rulers, I notice that every 4mm is represented by a longer line. In other words, every 4mm is emphasized on the ruler. See my screenshot below. I would have expected a round number, such as every 5mm. Does anybody know what is special about every 4mm? Is this something that has been agreed upon in the publishing world?

Hello all - Recently moved form ID to A Pub and am enjoying things 🙂 Having a question about ruler scales - With Measurements set to mm, my rulers are showing divisions of 4 and not 5/10? (The orange dot shows the cursor position to avoid any confusion about ruler lines.) Im on v1.8.4 on Mac.

As discussed in the general Requests, Suggestions & Discussions or in the Questions: Metric system was created at our Revolution to unify with a simple design and simple way to count, and stop using all the old and complicated other systems with difficult conversions or no concordance between mesurements. It's a decimal system, with a standard meter as reference. Using non decimal mesurement is heresy and a bug  I feel ridiculous to post thrice the same post. It would be nice if bugs affecting all the apps and discussed in the general parts of the forum was taken in account.

I am really beginning to enjoy the suite of softwares immensely and finally managing to produce what I want. I am working on OS Sierra on a 27- inch Mac running ve 1.7.3 The art work was viewed at 100% in Navigator. See attached screen shot: why are the 20 divisions between 220 mm and 240 mm grouped into units of 4 and not 5? Ok I know when you drag a guide across you have a readout as to where you are.....but that's not really the same thing as having a large graduation at 5 mm and 10 mm. Has no one else noticed this, or is this just my dyslexia kicking in? Thanks for all the good work, Antony

As discussed in the general Requests, Suggestions & Discussions or in the Questions: Metric system was created at our Revolution to unify with a simple design and simple way to count, and stop using all the old and complicated other systems with difficult conversions or no concordance between mesurements. It's a decimal system, with a standard meter as reference. Using non decimal mesurement is heresy and a bug  I feel ridiculous to post thrice the same post. It would be nice if bugs affecting all the apps and discussed in the general parts of the forum was taken in account.

Hi, I've already read about this, but can't find the post. Can we have standard millimeter units on the rulers? The metric system is a decimal system, and everything we use for mesure use longer graduation for decimal and half ones for middle as in 5, 15, 25… Usually I sort of don't need to finely read the graduations when placing a guide or an object on a page, but since AD/AP/APub graduations vary depending of zooming option, it's difficult to do. I usually need to do this adding a guide, let it go, select it, to check with the Transformation panel and move it again, or create an objet and use the Transformation panel to give it the desired value. Standard:

When I see rulers, it looks strange for my continental eye. Divisions are unusual. By example I can see 20 mm divided by 5, giving 4 mm steps. Normally we would have 10 mm divided by 2 (5 mm step), or by 5 (2mm step) or by 10 (1 mm step). Can you change this ?

Currently (as of Novembre 2018), the 'Affinities' display nice-looking and readable rulers (fine). Unfortunately, the subdivisions of these rulers are often a bit odd, so that seemingly obvious and important numbers are not shown (it's better than with some programs, but worse than with others). Let's take the millimetre rulers as an example: Here, the 4 subdivision ticks appear at the values 44, 48, 52 and 56, which is not so nice. It would be nicer if there were only three ticks, at 45, 50 and 55. Similar problem here: The large ticks appear as above, so that the number 50, which I myself would expect to be more important than 52, gets a short tick instead of a large one. In order not to get too many ticks, I would suggest a large tick at 50, and small ticks with a distance of 2. Similar problem here: The large ticks show up as above, being 8 times the distance of the small ones. Powers of 2 work quite well with people who are used to work with inches, but all units that usually use powers of 10 yield strange results with halfening as shown. In this case, I recommend an additional number at 50 (there's lots of space for it), large ticks at 45 and 55 and small ticks with a distance of 1. Overall, more than 4 small ticks in a row more or less make my eyes glaze over in confusion... Unfortunately, the algorithm for really nice ruler divisions is rather complicated and sometimes even depends on the preferences of the user. An old vector illustration program I know (Professional Draw from 1992) therefore even offered two subdivision styles for inches: Inches (with continuous halfening) and decimal inches... Andreas Weidner