Inch ruler marks are too small to see correctly

[Mr. Paul]

The rulers in Affinity Designer are not designed for easy use. ( Actually the rulers suffer the same problem in all Affinity programs: Photo, Designer, and Publisher ). The problem is that when viewing them, there is a major tic mark at , the inch positions and at the 1/2 inch positions but all the other tics are the same height - Are we supposed to zoom in and squint and COUNT THE TICS to see where we are in the ruler ( i.e. to get to the 1/8 inch position or the 1/16 inch position???  This situation is very poor and renders the programs unusable in this area. - - - The rulers in Adobe Illus, Photoshop, and InDesign are much superior. Please if at all possible, can you look into this and redesign the Affinity rulers? - and please send updates to all who have purchased, especially the businesses out there, such as Office Depot and Office Max. ( I would attach sample images that I screen shot - but I do not see a way to do that. ) ( please email me - the courtesy of a reply is requested) and I can email you back the images of what I am talking about if you like. - Thanks

[Gear maker]

Mr. Paul, welcome to the forum.  FYI I had the same issue when I started and put in a request to have it changed: 

Unfortunately I believe the majority of users are using metric units so they don't see the problem, so it's not an important issue.  And has never been changed.  I don't mean to disparage the Affinity people they have done a wonderful job of creating a great package of software in a relatively short period of time.  There are so many requests that they have to work on high priorities first.  An issue that has only been brought up by, I believe, 3 people in 6 years naturally gets a low priority.  Is this picture about what you were trying to show?

[Wosven]

Hi,

I reassure you, us, user of the metric system, found errors in the implementation of the metric rules — we think that's because the majority of user don't use the metric system —, and it wasn't adressed either!

[Mr. Paul]

Yes, that's basically it - there are a ton of same height tics between 4.875 and 5 ( except for the slightly taller tic at 4-15/16 - which should be taller so as to be seen better )

p.s. this ruler is in inches, not metric  - but how did you get it to be seen in decimals? 

I see now where to attach some images - I will do so

the first image is the Affinity Photo ruler - you can see it has the same problem - many tiny, "all same height" tics

the second image is Adobe Photoshop ruler - with a much easier to read layout

[Gear maker]

1 hour ago, Mr. Paul said:

p.s. this ruler is in inches, not metric  - but how did you get it to be seen in decimals? 

I zoomed in further which causes the decimals.  Like your second picture but a bit further.  The ticks are so close together I haven't had luck in using the mouse cursor to count them.  The PS one is better in so many ways.  That is something I haven't said in 6 years, anything good about PS.   Glad to see i'm not the only one with a problem in all the ticks.

[Sean P]

9 hours ago, Mr. Paul said:

Yes, that's basically it - there are a ton of same height tics between 4.875 and 5 ( except for the slightly taller tic at 4-15/16 - which should be taller so as to be seen better )

p.s. this ruler is in inches, not metric  - but how did you get it to be seen in decimals? 

I see now where to attach some images - I will do so

the first image is the Affinity Photo ruler - you can see it has the same problem - many tiny, "all same height" tics

the second image is Adobe Photoshop ruler - with a much easier to read layout

Hi Mr. Paul,

Thanks for letting us know - I've passed your comments and screenshots over to development and have bumped the issue with them.

With regards to your question about metric, the ruler will always show the units the document was created with. So if you create a document in millimetres, centimetres or meters your ruler will be in metric (albeit with the issue Wosven has mentioned, which we're also aware of).