Adjusting margins on master pages by drag'n'drop

[Petar Petrenko]

Hi,

let say I created a 9 x 9 grid on master pages. Now, I would like margins to snap to any of the guides and doing that by changing numeric values needs much more time than draging them to the desired positions.

[GarryP]

Can you explain how you created the grid, what sort of guides you are using, and give an example of a use-case for what you are trying to do?

[Petar Petrenko]

7 hours ago, GarryP said:

Can you explain how you created the grid, what sort of guides you are using, and give an example of a use-case for what you are trying to do?

As first, I created this example in InDesign because there is no option in Publisher for creating grids that span the whole page or spread -- only to the margins. The grid color is Cyan, the margins are in magenta and I drew the green rectangle to show where I need the margins to be repositioned. Repositioning them by entering numbers is too slow and not so precise.

Why I do need this? Maybe for interior part of a book design?

[Old Bruce]

In this case I would do away with Margins and just use the Column Guides on Master Page(s) to set up the Grid(s). View > Guides and choose the number of columns and rows with 0 (zero) for the gutter and Outline instead of Filled.

[Petar Petrenko]

19 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

In this case I would do away with Margins

And how would Publisher know what are the boundaries for adjusting the text frame?

[Old Bruce]

1 minute ago, NNN said:

And how would Publisher know what are the boundaries for adjusting the text frame?

To the best of my knowledge Publisher doesn't pay any attention to the Margins when I adjust the the size of the text frame. Make a document with text frames the size of the margins, alter the size of the margins. The text frames will remain the size they were before.

[Petar Petrenko]

24 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

To the best of my knowledge Publisher doesn't pay any attention to the Margins when I adjust the the size of the text frame. Make a document with text frames the size of the margins, alter the size of the margins. The text frames will remain the size they were before.

Thanks, Bruce. Because of you I will change my way of thinking regarding this matter. I will work this way from now on:

1. margins will always be set to 0 when creating a new document;
2. I will create a grid on master pages;
3. draw linked text boxes that snap to the guides of my choice;
4. import the text on the main pages.

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

To the best of my knowledge Publisher doesn't pay any attention to the Margins when I adjust the the size of the text frame. Make a document with text frames the size of the margins, alter the size of the margins. The text frames will remain the size they were before.

Right. As far as I can tell, the Margins are just visual guides for the user, and another snapping candidate.