Calculating the position of the page number box / Affinity Publisher

[mdesigns]

I have page numbers on Master A and Master B. I want to make sure they are aligned. How do I find their position on the page so I can drag it to position? Maybe, there is another way.

 

[GarryP]

My suggestion would be to put the page number by itself on a Master Page, then apply that Master Page to your other Master Pages, then apply those Master Pages to the ‘normal’ pages.

By doing it this way, you only have the page number defined once.

[mdesigns]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

My suggestion would be to put the page number by itself on a Master Page, then apply that Master Page to your other Master Pages, then apply those Master Pages to the ‘normal’ pages.

By doing it this way, you only have the page number defined once.

Hi @GarryP, You mean instead of adding the "#" box on the 2 master pages, add it to just one?

I followed an Affinity tutorial that explained it to do it the way I did. How do I redo my setup to match what you said?

[mdesigns]

Solved!

Click on the number text box and on the right is the Transform panel with all the coordinates. Put the same values for both the master pages and they are all aligned.

 

[v_kyr]

8 minutes ago, mventures said:

Solved!

Click on the number text box and on the right is the Transform panel with all the coordinates. Put the same values for both the master pages and they are all aligned.

 

Either that way, or also making use of the alignment options.

• https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/ObjectControl/align.html?title=Aligning objects
• https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/ObjectControl/distribute.html?title=Distributing/spacing objects
• ... etc.

[walt.farrell]

57 minutes ago, mventures said:

You mean instead of adding the "#" box on the 2 master pages, add it to just one?

Create a 3rd Master Page, and apply that Master Page to both Master A and Master B.

I am curious though about your Master A and Master B which at the moment appear identical. Why do you need 2 of them?

[GarryP]

1 hour ago, mventures said:

You mean instead of adding the "#" box on the 2 master pages, add it to just one?

As Walt mentioned above:

1. Remove the text frames containing the Page Number Fields from the existing Master Pages;
2. Create a new Master Page;
3. Add a new Frame Text layer in the wanted position on that Master Page;
4. Add the Page Number Field to the text of that layer;
5. Apply the new Master Page to the existing Master Pages.

[mdesigns]

31 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Create a 3rd Master Page, and apply that Master Page to both Master A and Master B.

I am curious though about your Master A and Master B which at the moment appear identical. Why do you need 2 of them?

I was following along an online tutorial for this project I am working on. Master A and Master B were created as the masters for page 1 and page 2 when the setup was Facing Pages. That's how it showed up. But you are right, they are identical.

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, mventures said:

I was following along an online tutorial for this project I am working on. Master A and Master B were created as the masters for page 1 and page 2 when the setup was Facing Pages. That's how it showed up. But you are right, they are identical.

Thanks. If you're following a Facing Pages tutorial, perhaps you should be using Facing Pages. But if not, you don't need two Master Pages; one will suffice.

[Old Bruce]

6 hours ago, mventures said:

I have page numbers on Master A and Master B. I want to make sure they are aligned. How do I find their position on the page so I can drag it to position? Maybe, there is another way.

I would make the Text Frame the width of the Margins and then use a Paragraph Style for the page numbers and align it using the Spacing section of the Paragraph Style. What you are wanting is the actual text/glyph(s) of the number to be aligned, the frame is just a container.