Publisher: Why do ruler measurements not default zero to spine?

[mattspace]

I haven't been able to find (searching) a way to set an entire document to use spine as zero for spread measurements, so I'm assuming there isn't one.

I've been doing DTP since 1994 - Pagemaker, Quark, InDesign etc, I've never encountered anyone making a DTP app that doesn't default spine as zero, and doesn't let you change it on a document-wide basis. We measure books from spine for a reason.

So what's the thinking with Affinity having an unchangeable (document-wide) ruler zero as top left of left page of spread?

Unless this is a bug?

[Old Bruce]

With the rulers showing you should be able to drag the origin to the centre of the spread. You may be aware of this already, the sad part is there is no way that I know of to have this automatically set for all spreads/pages. Spread after spread.

[mattspace]

1 minute ago, Old Bruce said:

With the rulers showing you should be able to drag the origin to the centre of the spread. You may be aware of this already, the sad part is there is no way that I know of to have this automatically set for all spreads/pages. Spread after spread.

Yeah, I've been doing that where necessary (actually setting through the Guides... setting, but for my current 120+ page document, it's just baffling me that there's no document-wide setting, and why in the absence of a document-wide setting, spine-zero wasn't the default.

The why of it though... it's that Ghostbusters thing of "You're right Ray, no human would stack books like that."