JBL08 Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Just wondering why it's so difficult and no solution in changing the unit of measurement e.g to INCHES. Why do we have to set it up when we first start a document? I don't know how other users prefer their pages and other stuff but we as designer/printers in Nort America uses and buy paper in inches not in Picas nor mm or cm, etc. We can do it in other software program that we use and we can even change the measurements of different page in the same document file. We bought Affinity Publisher knowing it's a great program but with this simple task, it is so inconvenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 30 minutes ago, JBL08 said: I don't know how other users prefer their pages and other stuff but we as designer/printers in Nort America uses and buy paper in inches not in Picas nor mm or cm, etc There are Presets in File > New that are intended for European use (the various "A something" sizes) and others intended for US use (like Letter and Legal). The European sizes are in mm, as specified by the standards, and the US ones are in inches. If you're working in the US can't you just use the Presets intended for our use? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 I don't understand the question? When you create a document, you can specify the unit of measurement to be used throughout the document. This can also be changed later. And different page formats in one document are also possible. For example, if you create the document in A4, all pages are in A4 format. With the spread setup you can give all or selected pages a new/own page format. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikerbudmatt Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 21 hours ago, JBL08 said: Just wondering why it's so difficult and no solution in changing the unit of measurement e.g to INCHES. Why do we have to set it up when we first start a document? I don't know how other users prefer their pages and other stuff but we as designer/printers in Nort America uses and buy paper in inches not in Picas nor mm or cm, etc. Um, there is a solution, and very similar to that used in the <cough> other major publishing application. Point at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical rulers in the upper-left corner of the document window. (If they are not visible, select View->Show Rulers, or type COMMAND/CTRL + R) Right-click or CTRL-click on the intersection. From the contextual menu that appears, select your preferred unit of measurement. Everything from rulers to information boxes will now display in that unit. Unsolicited bonus: If you want to change the "page origin" (the point from which the H and V rulers measure "0"), click and drag from that spot. Again, exactly like the other, captive-subscriber-hobbled application. Finally, know that many of us here in North America very much design and think in picas and points, and campaigned hard to encourage Serif to include it in the program. Quote -- Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Off topic, but picas and points is the traditional measurement system for professional page layout in North America. It's ideal since type is already measured in points. Bikerbudmatt 1 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikerbudmatt Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 23 hours ago, MikeTO said: Off topic, but picas and points is the traditional measurement system for professional page layout in North America. It's ideal since type is already measured in points. It took me a day to learn how to think in points and picas when I was learning typesetting on a Compugraphic machine in 1981. It properly remains the way I spec and set everything I do to this day. That includes Microsoft Word documents, where setting margins and hanging indents in points is so much easier and faster than doing the same in decimal inches. I would probably find metric measurements workable, but they are discouraged in the USA and so they are not a go-to. It doesn’t matter, though—Serif provides enough measurement systems (including yards!) to keep everyone happy, and they are all available on the fly with a single right-click. MikeTO 1 Quote -- Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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