Affinity Designer: fast way to clear all guides?

[Erica]

Hi,

Am I missing something? I can not find a fast way to clear all guides...? Selecting them one by one and dragging them up to the ruler is very laborious...

Thanks in advance.

[G13RL]

Hi Erica,

"View", "Guides Manager", "Remove All guides".

[Greg@AshwoodPhotographics]

The guide manager also in AFFINITY Photo it's a brilliant few a feature. 

Greg 

[firstdefence]

4 hours ago, Greg@AshwoodPhotographics said:

The guide manager also in AFFINITY Photo it's a brilliant few a feature. 

Greg 

Dude, I wouldn't use your email addy as a user name unless you love being spammed.

[firstdefence]

@Erica I'm on Mac and I have Control + G assigned in Keyboard Shortcuts for the Guides Manager but you can assign whatever keystroke you want as long as it doesn't clash with one already assigned, you'll know if it clashes because it will display a yellow triangle, mousing over it tells you what it's already assigned to.

[Greg@AshwoodPhotographics]

4 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Dude, I wouldn't use your email addy as a user name unless you love being spammed.

That's not my email address memattie 😁

[R C-R]

12 hours ago, firstdefence said:

a I'm on Mac and I have Control + G assigned in Keyboard Shortcuts for the Guides Manager ...

FWIW, I use Shift + G for that, & Shift + A for the Grid & Axis Manager. Works well unless I am in text edit mode.

[Erica]

Thank you all and especially to G13RL for posting the screenshot...got it instantly!  Erica

[G13RL]

@Erica You're welcome!

[Lintrezza]

Interestingly, it only clears the guides on each page for me, not all the guides on the doc. I'm going to have to put up with them or remove them page by page...

[carl123]

24 minutes ago, Lintrezza said:

I'm going to have to put up with them or remove them page by page...

View > Show Guides works across all pages

You can also make all Guides invisible by changing their colour in the Guides manager (View > Guides...)

[Lintrezza]

I thought of that. But I do want to retain some 🙂

[carl123]

 

2 hours ago, Lintrezza said:

Interestingly, it only clears the guides on each page for me, not all the guides on the doc

 

1 hour ago, Lintrezza said:

I thought of that. But I do want to retain some 🙂

Error: Does not compute!

What exactly are you trying to do?

You can't delete all guides in the document but retain some of them

If some or all of the guides are the same on all pages you can place the guides on a master page and then just delete them from the master when you no longer need them

[Lintrezza]

Of course you can't retain any of them. But they were a mess. They turned up out of no where. Some weird glitch. I'd been putting them at 70mm for chapter header pages and then spontanously a whole heap turned up, all at different places, but mostly 70.1mm 70.2mm and so on through to 90mm+. I cannot begin to understand how this occurred . Clearing all guides did nothing. (I wanted to avoid having to explain the weirdness). But nor do I need one on every page. So I wanted to clear the lot and place one on each page of a new chapter. Now done. Thanks.

[Handyann]

I also had the issue of unwanted guides appearing on each page, after I changed the layout from facing pages to single page. A guide showed up halfway down each page. I don't know if I've read this right, but in V2 Remove All Guides only removes them from the current page, not document-wide. Or is it supposed to take them off every page at once?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Handyann said:

I also had the issue of unwanted guides appearing on each page, after I changed the layout from facing pages to single page. A guide showed up halfway down each page. I don't know if I've read this right, but in V2 Remove All Guides only removes them from the current page, not document-wide. Or is it not supposed to take them off every page at once?

Guides are page-specific. 

Is the Guide solid or dashed? If dashed, it comes from a Master Page, and would have to be removed there, I think.

[R C-R]

42 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Is the Guide solid or dashed? If dashed, it comes from a Master Page, and would have to be removed there, I think.

Your thinking is correct!

[Handyann]

@walt.farrell it's solid and isn't on the Master - I checked. Every page had one after changing from facing to single. 🤷‍♀️ IS Remove all guides supposed to delete all the guides in a document, or only the current page please? Mine only does the current page, but I don't know if I'm missing a setting somewhere.

 

[walt.farrell]

35 minutes ago, Handyann said:

IS Remove all guides supposed to delete all the guides in a document, or only the current page please?

As far as I know, only on the current page. But someone from Serif will know for sure. 

The real question, to me, is what created them. 

Are you sure they're Guides? Do they go away if you turn off View > Show Guides?

[Dan C]

18 hours ago, Handyann said:

IS Remove all guides supposed to delete all the guides in a document, or only the current page please?

The Guide Manager in Publisher is spread-specific, meaning the 'Remove All Guides' option will only affect the currently selected Spread.

Unfortunately there's no option I'm aware of to remove all guides from your document with one click, however as these are only design-aids they can all be hidden in one click using View > Show Guides as Walt mentions above

[MSchmid]

I have the same problem. For a reason I don't understand, my guides seem to be carried over with new pages (bug? I dunno). They can be removed manually, though. A "Remove all guides from Document" would be really useful.

[Dan C]

On 5/25/2024 at 9:36 PM, MSchmid said:

For a reason I don't understand, my guides seem to be carried over with new pages (bug? I dunno)

Are your guides applied to the Master Page, that is associated with your newly created spreads? As this would cause the Master guides to appear on the regular spread pages when created.

Master Page Guides are indicated with a dotted line on the spread, whereas regular page guides are solid -

[MSchmid]

1 minute ago, Dan C said:

Are your guides applied to the Master Page, that is associated with your newly created spreads? As this would cause the Master guides to appear on the regular spread pages when created.

Master Page Guides are indicated with a dotted line on the spread, whereas regular page guides are solid -

Nope, all on regular pages.

I was so far not able to reproduce the issue consistently and reliably, so I have no idea what's happening (or if I imagine things...).

[Dan C]

Thanks for letting me know - I've tested this in a few documents within 2.5 and I've equally been unable to replicate this issue thus far, so if you do find a reproducible recipe please don't hesitate to update us here  

[MSchmid]

Will do!☺️