dehskins Posted June 2, 2023 Share Posted June 2, 2023 I have created several documents in Affinity Publisher and one thing remains consistent in every single case. Margins and guide settings get inherited by the initial master page and not through new master pages or pages without a master applied. As far as I can tell, there is no way to fix this. This is extremely frustrating and adds an immense amount of work to create consistent looking pages. I am having to drag guides around these independent pages where the margins are supposed to be. Document setup shows the margins as set from every single page in the document and yet they will not display on these pages. I have to add additional guides for where I want the center of the page. Please tell me there is a way to fix this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 2, 2023 Share Posted June 2, 2023 23 minutes ago, dehskins said: Margins and guide settings get inherited by the initial master page and not through new master pages or pages without a master applied. Margins are a Document wide setting, not for individual pages be they Master or Regular. When you say Guides do you mean the Column Guides? They are related to, and therefore controlled by the Margins. Ruler Guides may vary from page to page again be they Master or Regular. They show up on Mac OS 11.7 dehskins 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehskins Posted June 2, 2023 Author Share Posted June 2, 2023 The guides are not that important. It is the missing margins that has my work stalled. I set up my margins when I set up my document. The are set. Affinity shows that they are set when I go to document setup. It is set for the entire document. The setting will not be reflected on any new pages not using the first master that I created unless I make a copy of the master. On the very rare occasion I can click on a page without the margins displayed and click on document setup and click enter and the margins will display. This response is extremely rare. Other pages will never display what is set globally in document setup. These settings are definitely not document wide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 2, 2023 Share Posted June 2, 2023 The only ways I can get the Margins to not show are if I have Preview mode turned on or if I have Show Margins unchecked. Both in the View Menu. dehskins 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehskins Posted June 2, 2023 Author Share Posted June 2, 2023 It is of course set to show margins. That is the most basic thing of all. Margins are displaying on other pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 2, 2023 Share Posted June 2, 2023 All I can think of is if the pages are different sizes. Not much I can do just guessing. If you could post a file with the problem then I or others may be able to figure it out. dehskins 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehskins Posted June 2, 2023 Author Share Posted June 2, 2023 The file is quite large. I can tell you that all my pages are the same size with no irregularities. The unresponsive global margins has been a problem before the upgrade. Any page using a master page is displaying the margins and all other pages not associated with a master do not display any margins. This very specific problem has been an issue long before the upgrade. I can't force global settings other than document size and bleed to reflect through all the pages. I created a brand new document and of course it is responding as I suggested it does. lets play find the margin.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Return Posted June 2, 2023 Share Posted June 2, 2023 Just deselect and reselect the margin setting in the document setup. dehskins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehskins Posted June 2, 2023 Author Share Posted June 2, 2023 Thank you very much. That worked. I have to say that this is not very intuitive of Affinity and this weird step should definitely not be necessary. Good for you for figuring it out. Return 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Return Posted June 2, 2023 Share Posted June 2, 2023 1 minute ago, dehskins said: and this weird step should definitely not be necessary. I think this a bug for not bringing it over to all pages. dehskins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehskins Posted June 2, 2023 Author Share Posted June 2, 2023 Yes, I agree. You really helped me out a lot. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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