robskinn Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 I use column guides as a layout tool but there is no way to hide them except for toggling preview mode. Being part part of the 'Guides Management' pane I'd expect to be able to 'Show' and 'Hide' them by simply showing or hiding guides? Evil Pechenka 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 There are two kinds of guides, normal and column. They can be managed by the Guides Manager, as you mentioned, but the Guides Manager does not have facilities to hide guides. It only allows creating them or deleting them. The View menu has the UI for hiding or displaying both kinds of guides, and instead of using Preview Mode you could disable Show Column Guides via the View menu. And you can assign a keyboard shortcut to that function via Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts, if you want to. Quote -- Walt Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 22H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 22H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Affinity Photo 1.10.6 (.1665) and 2.2.0 and 2.2.0. beta/ Affinity Designer 1.10.6 (.1665) and 2.2.0 and 2.2.0 beta / Affinity Publisher 1.10.6 (.1665) and 2.2.0 and 2.2.0 betaiPad Pro M1, 12.9", iPadOS 16.6.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Affinity Photo 1.10.7 and 2.2.0 and 2.2.0 beta/ Affinity Designer 1.10.7 and 2.2.0 and 2.2.0 beta/ Affinity Publisher 2.2.0 and 2.2.0 beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robskinn Posted March 11, 2020 Author Share Posted March 11, 2020 I must be having one of those days. I totally missed that! Thanks Walt. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 You're welcome, Rob. (And it happens to me, too. Probably most of us, at one time or another ) Quote -- Walt Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 22H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 22H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Affinity Photo 1.10.6 (.1665) and 2.2.0 and 2.2.0. beta/ Affinity Designer 1.10.6 (.1665) and 2.2.0 and 2.2.0 beta / Affinity Publisher 1.10.6 (.1665) and 2.2.0 and 2.2.0 betaiPad Pro M1, 12.9", iPadOS 16.6.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Affinity Photo 1.10.7 and 2.2.0 and 2.2.0 beta/ Affinity Designer 1.10.7 and 2.2.0 and 2.2.0 beta/ Affinity Publisher 2.2.0 and 2.2.0 beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chloe_et Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Hi, would it be possible, if there isn't one I haven't found yet, to add an option to hide all types of guides at once in Affinity Designer, so designs can be previewed quickly as it exists in affinity Publisher? I often work with both guides, columns and margins in Affinity designer and I find it kind of complex (even with shortcuts) having to turn on then turn off 3 or more options separately. Hope this comment hasn't been done already and that it's useful to some other users. Thank you, Chloé Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Welcome to the forums @chloe_et You might be interested in: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/26240-preview-mode-in-ad/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 19 hours ago, chloe_et said: would it be possible, if there isn't one I haven't found yet, to add an option to hide all types of guides at once in Affinity Designer, so designs can be previewed quickly View > New View This will create a new document tab of the same file. In this document tab you can switch off guides, column guides, margins etc You now have 2 views (tabs) of the same document, one that shows guides one that does not Simply select the 2nd tab to get an uncluttered view of the document as and when required. Note: Modifications to the document's contents in either tab are applied to the same document and are also reflected in the other tab R C-R and walt.farrell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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