Change guide colour

[anto]

Can I link guides to a specific layer or master page?

[ronnyb]

On 7/21/2023 at 10:08 AM, SVVector said:

A tick box "show guides" can be useful also in case they are not activated so you can see what you're doing. Grid setting have it why not for guides also

Makes sense, how else can one confidently edit guides without seeing them?

[joe_l]

Personally I would like to see, that you can change the position of guides via the Transform panel instead of approximating the position manually or entering a menu for a precise position more than having colors for guides, which is fine and obviously a wanted feature.

[Return]

38 minutes ago, joe_l said:

Personally I would like to see, that you can change the position of guides via the Transform panel instead of approximating the position manually or entering a menu for a precise position more than having colors for guides, which is fine and obviously a wanted feature.

 

[walt.farrell]

5 hours ago, anto said:

Can I link guides to a specific layer or master page?

You can put Guides on a Master Page, and they will then appear on any page which has that Masater Page applied.

[Return]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You can put Guides on a Master Page, and they will then appear on any page which has that Masater Page applied.

But the color will still be global so no blue on mp1 and red on mp2 if that's what you want to achieve.

[anto]

1 minute ago, Return said:

But the color will still be global so no blue on mp1 and red on mp2 if that's what you want to achieve.

And not only that. I also want to have different guides on different master pages.

[Hangman]

7 minutes ago, anto said:

And not only that. I also want to have different guides on different master pages.

That you can do as @walt.farrell alluded to above, though not of differing colours as @Return mentioed...

[Return]

2 minutes ago, anto said:

I also want to have different guides on different master pages.

You can have horizontal on mp1 and vertical on mp2.
Apply both mp1 and mp2 to a page and you can see them both>hide them both and edit linked to match on other pages or edit detached to edit on one page.
 

[Return]

You can set up colored lines on your mp's and use that as (snapping) guides.

[Finrach]

On 7/17/2023 at 4:35 PM, Pšenda said:

Is this the color for all guides in the document or just one specific guide? I think the option to set different guides with different colors would be very useful.

Agreeing with Pšenda here - changing individual guides would be nice, like an A3 that folds to an A6 or DL and you can differentiate between fold guides and column margin guides.

[PjMcIntosh]

On 7/14/2023 at 1:44 PM, fde101 said:

It would not be logical to do this in application preferences when you might want light-colored guides in a dark-colored document but dark-colored guides in a light-colored document.

To borrow a paraphrase questionably attributed to a famous physicist, things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler...

If you want to avoid setting these repeatedly, the ideal solution is to set them in a template that you use to create new documents.

I'm new to Affinity Publisher, having used Adobe InDesign for decades. I agree with @Barry Newman that being able to change guide colors in the program preferences would be really helpful. Adobe uses a bright cyan guide color that I have found to be visible when working on just about any color background, with the exception of cyan and those colors too similar to it, of course. But it's rare that I need to change the guide colors in InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop. One of the issues I have so far with Publisher is that all of the text frames, margin guides, and custom guides are all the same color. Sure, I can figure out what's what, but different colors would mean I wouldn't have to.

[walt.farrell]

20 hours ago, PjMcIntosh said:

One of the issues I have so far with Publisher is that all of the text frames, margin guides, and custom guides are all the same color.

Just so you know: 

1. You can change the Margin colors when creating a document, or later in Document Setup. 

2. You can change the color of Text Frames and other bounding boxes, and curve lines, by putting them inside a Layer (Layer > New Layer), then right-clicking on the Layer in the Layers panel, choosing Properties, and setting a color.

Edit: 3. You can change the color of Guides in the Guides Manager (View > Guides), though all Guides will be the same color.

 

[PjMcIntosh]

On 5/28/2024 at 5:42 PM, walt.farrell said:

Just so you know: 

1. You can change the Margin colors when creating a document, or later in Document Setup. 

2. You can change the color of Text Frames and other bounding boxes, and curve lines, by putting them inside a Layer (Layer > New Layer), then right-clicking on the Layer in the Layers panel, choosing Properties, and setting a color.

Edit: 3. You can change the color of Guides in the Guides Manager (View > Guides), though all Guides will be the same color.

 

Thanks, Walt. I did that, but was hoping I could set it for all future docs.

[walt.farrell]

17 minutes ago, PjMcIntosh said:

Thanks, Walt. I did that, but was hoping I could set it for all future docs.

You can create a Template with those colors, and then create new documents using the Template.

[Eugen]

On 5/28/2024 at 11:49 PM, PjMcIntosh said:

I'm new to Affinity Publisher, having used Adobe InDesign for decades. I agree with @Barry Newman that being able to change guide colors in the program preferences would be really helpful. Adobe uses a bright cyan guide color that I have found to be visible when working on just about any color background, with the exception of cyan and those colors too similar to it, of course. But it's rare that I need to change the guide colors in InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop. One of the issues I have so far with Publisher is that all of the text frames, margin guides, and custom guides are all the same color. Sure, I can figure out what's what, but different colors would mean I wouldn't have to.

I second this. Currently, I have to adjust the guide color every time I open an image to edit because the default color is barely noticeable. Every other graphic app allows you to change the default color, so why doesn’t Affinity? It’s very uncomfortable to work with guides in Affinity apps at the moment. This issue must be addressed by the developers.

 

[Eugen]

On 6/5/2024 at 2:27 AM, walt.farrell said:

You can create a Template with those colors, and then create new documents using the Template.

@walt.farrell

Do you know that people also open images to edit them? What should be done in this case? Personally, I work this way 95% of the time.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Eugen said:

Do you know that people also open images to edit them? What should be done in this case? Personally, I work this way 95% of the time.

In that case, you must adjust the Guide settings for each non-Affinity image that you Open. 

[fde101]

5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

In that case, you must adjust the Guide settings for each non-Affinity image that you Open. 

Currently, yes.

I suspect the best way to deal with this, not only for these but for other similar properties, would be to have a preference where you can specify a template to use when importing a file which is not in a native Affinity format.  The effect would be to create the new document using the template, resize it to match the imported file, and place the file in the new document, but to treat that as a single-action starting point (not showing it as modified or undoable).