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Different ways of achieving mm-perfect positioning in Affinity Publisher


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I have to apologize in advance for being Monk or maybe my genes are to blame, but I HATE positioning of elements when there are too many decimal places at the position.

Scenario: Document with baseline grid enabled (Display treshold at 90%), Snapping is set up properly for margins and baseline grid.

Workflow A: I move the text frame with the mouse to the top left corner of a column (x 16 mm, y 16 mm). Result: Several attempts to get the element to the exact desired position. And I mean x 16 mm / y 16 mm and not x 16 mm / y 16,1234 mm.

Workflow B: I zoom a bit out and position the text frame by moving the text frame handles to the desired position. Result: Monk-perfect position at the first attempt. ;)

Workflow C : Positioning via Transform panel. Yes, but sometimes I am faster with the mouse instead of typing x and y position into the Transform panel.

A problem could be that there are too many snapping options like margins, baseline grid etc., as elements always tend to snap to the wrong direction. A preference to snap either top or bottom would be useful in my opinion.

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Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta

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You could set up a millimeter grid, and just use Snap to Grid, perhaps?

You can save different Snapping presets, which might help.

Regarding your suggestion: If that were implemented, snap to top or bottom of what? The choices seem myriad: Page, Canvas, Artboard, Frame, Column, ...

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44 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You can save different Snapping presets, which might help.

One of the reasons why I like this community: Asking a "stupid" question and someone gives a helpful answer. Don't know why I did not found out myself.

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Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta

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