Skyesofrock Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 The one thing that stops Affinity Designer from being the perfect tool for UI design for me is the lack of an ability to set up a guide layout. There is almost this functionality in the grid set up options, just without the ability to make grid tiles the full height of the artboard and add a default margin on the left/right/top/bottom independent of the gutter. The ability to save a guide layout preset in the Guide Manager and load it up in future documents has been mentioned previously, and this is potentially another great way to solve the problem, so +1 to that idea too. My issue is just that when setting up a new document I need to be able to quickly set up the bootstrap grid as guides before I start. My current workaround is to set up the guides in a document and use that as a template for any web UI work I need to do. Please consider adding a Guide Layout feature and/or Custom Guide Presets (honestly the Guides Manager is currently brilliant, it just needs extending). I'm so very close to being able to replace PS/AI with AF. Cheers Soulofjazzman, Bauke, Highvoltage and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted October 25, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 25, 2016 Dynamic guide tools will be coming soon. Skyesofrock, Highvoltage, Soulofjazzman and 1 other 4 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyesofrock Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 Dynamic guide tools will be coming soon. That's brilliant news, I've been waiting for this feature for a while (used Mac AD since beta). Is there any chance of an ETA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted October 25, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 25, 2016 Not as yet. But once we start working on 1.6, we will decide which features to prioritise. Soulofjazzman 1 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyesofrock Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 Not as yet. But once we start working on 1.6, we will decide which features to prioritise. (please add this in 1.6) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highvoltage Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 For the developers: Please check out this great grid calculator if you don't already know it: http://gridcalculator.dk/#/980/12/20/20 You can use the arrow keys to inc/decrease the values and all relative values are updated accordingly. A similar functionality would be insanely useful for web design. Skyesofrock 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyesofrock Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 For the developers: Please check out this great grid calculator if you don't already know it: http://gridcalculator.dk/#/980/12/20/20 You can use the arrow keys to inc/decrease the values and all relative values are updated accordingly. A similar functionality would be insanely useful for web This is exactly the sort of functionality I'm after. Great reference! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted October 26, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 26, 2016 That's already in the plan... Skyesofrock 1 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbert123 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Looking forward to this - without it is very inefficient to create column grids for designs and web layouts. Will formulas be supported so that a grid can be applied that automatically updates when the page dimensions are changed? And will guide presets be available to the user? A bit like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyesofrock Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 That's already in the plan... Just what I wanted to hear ;) Cheers for your replies on the topic Ben! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted October 27, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 27, 2016 @Herbert123 Whatever we do, it will be dynamic. I've looked at various grid/guide styles and I hope we'll be able to incorporate the common ones. Just like our shapes, customisation will be key. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbert123 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 @Ben Sounds good. A couple of questions about the current implementation of guides in AD: Currently guides can only be dragged from the rulers when the move tool is active. It is a hassle to switch tools if a quick guide is needed while working in a different tool mode. Will this be reconsidered? Guides seem to live in their own invisible layer. Often it is handy (almost required) to have multiple guide systems with different colours in the same document. When the guide grid creator option is added, will it be possible to have multiple layered grid systems as well? Highvoltage 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highvoltage Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 @Ben Sounds good. A couple of questions about the current implementation of guides in AD: Currently guides can only be dragged from the rulers when the move tool is active. It is a hassle to switch tools if a quick guide is needed while working in a different tool mode. Will this be reconsidered? Guides seem to live in their own invisible layer. Often it is handy (almost required) to have multiple guide systems with different colours in the same document. When the guide grid creator option is added, will it be possible to have multiple layered grid systems as well? And offcourse toggle shortcuts for it. Herbert123 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zk433 Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Sorry if it has been mentioned elsewhere, but does the option to save guides already exist? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 26, 2017 Staff Share Posted July 26, 2017 Hi Zk433, No. You can save a document with the guides already set and use it every time you want to start a document with them as if it was a template. Zk433 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KishZera Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 @Ben the new dynamic grid is great (as implemented in 1.7.3.481), but still not ideal. I'm working on an icon collection. I had setup a custom advanced grid (which is still not dynamic) with 64x64 pixel tiles for the icons that have a slim 16 pixel gutter horizontally just for visual separation and a bigger 32 pixel gutter vertically to have space for a icon name label. Within the 64x64 tiles my only option is the number of divisions. I chose 16. Symmetry and centering is a big thing in icons, so having instead the dynamic subdivision based on zoom would be much better. With maybe two parameters, 1) number of divisions per zoom level, 2) number of zoom levels visible (currently only two, up to three of four would be nice, getting progressively faint). That way I can get clear lines at the center of each icon, level two at quarters and level three at eights. And it all jumps by a factor of 0.5 when I zoom in more. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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