Is there a proper baseline grid tutorial?

[Joop Vos]

Hello, I'm new here. I'm working in Affinity Publisher 2 on a brochure. I'm using text, images, quotes and several headings within two columns per page. I don't know how to adjust all elements so that all text on every page ends up on the same baseline. There must be a method, I guess. Is there a manual on YouTube or wherever that covers this in detail? Thanks for helping me out here.

[MikeTO]

Hi @Joop Vos and welcome to the forums.

I've written detailed instructions for baseline grid and much more in the free Publisher manual I've shared in this forum. The link to it is in my signature below.

Cheers

[Joop Vos]

Wow, this is great ... :)) ... thanks for all the work.

 

[Joop Vos]

Hi, Mike

It seems that the styling I've come up with is too complicated to get every element on the same baseline grid. I guess I'm doing something terrible wrong ...

Would you be so kind to take a look into the attached document? It's not finished, but you'll see what I mean. Thanks in advance.

Kijken dan Zien verslag.afpub

[MikeTO]

Click on each text frame and in the Text Frame panel under Baseline Grid, you'll see that some of them have "Use Independent Baseline Grid" selected. You need to turn that off because the baseline grids of those frames is conflicting with the document's baseline grid. That feature is normally used for small text objects such as an image caption that shouldn't be part of the baseline grid's, not for the main text frames.

Also you might want to consider creating your main text frames on the master pages rather than directly on the document pages. It would make things simpler for you because then you can turn a setting such as Use Independent Baseline Grid off in one place and all pages would be updated. Now you'll have to click on the frames on each page to determine which have the setting wrong.

Good luck

[Joop Vos]

Thanks a lot ... PDF is on its way to the print shop ...