E9B6 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 I set up a new document (say) A4, units inches, margin 0.5in single page, and I set this as a user preset. If I now go to A4 to set up another preset, I again have to set measurements to inches, and margin to 0.5 etc etc There seem to be nowhere for me to store my publisher wide preferences, namely inches, margins etc. Why is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 The built-in A4 presets include a unit setting of "millimetres". If you pick an A4 preset, change unit to "inches" and then save a new preset, that (correctly) has no effect on the original A4 preset, and the "inches" choice is stored in the new preset. The app preferences will always be changed to those contained in a document preset when the preset is clicked. That's one of the reasons for presets to exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 1 hour ago, E9B6 said: If I now go to A4 to set up another preset, I again have to set measurements to inches, and margin to 0.5 etc etc Why did you go to A4, rather than going to the Preset you already made? Also, if you want to work in inches, why are you using the standard Eurpoean Presets that are in mm, rather than the US-based Presets that are already in inches? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E9B6 Posted February 21, 2021 Author Share Posted February 21, 2021 Because all paper in the UK uses euro sizes, but I was brought up in inches and cannot work with millimeters, so ideally I would like to set program wide units, like I used to in PagePlus. Also I need a number of different A4 and A5 set ups, and whilst I can use presets, it is very annoying to have to change the units on each preset I create Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 41 minutes ago, E9B6 said: whilst I can use presets, it is very annoying to have to change the units on each preset I create As Walt said: 22 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Why did you go to A4, rather than going to the Preset you already made? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E9B6 Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 because I needed to set up several presets, and it is annoying to have to enter all the same information on each one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 4 hours ago, E9B6 said: because I needed to set up several presets, and it is annoying to have to enter all the same information on each one Right. So, start with A4, and make some changes, and save it as, say, X1. Then, rather than starting with A4 for the next one, start with X1, which already has the basic set of changes. Modify X1, and save it as X2. Then either modify X2 to get X3, or modify X1 to get X3. Don't go back to A4, because if you do that you have to reenter all the changes. Alfred and Ron P. 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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