RoelBego Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Hello everybody, I was wondering if there is an function, short cut in AD to create guides from shapes. Like cmd+5 in illustrator. Thanks in advance! eb.artserv, Lotte, shaLtai and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 28, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 28, 2016 Hi RoelBego, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Currently it's not possible to create guides from objects. I'm moving this thread to the Feature Requests section. sujithta 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_H Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 +1 Before doing any layout job, I always create very detailed guides grid that margins and columns just don't allow. A simple example is a DL leaflet. Using strokes, I create: Fold guides page margins panel margins top of paragraph guides I select all and paste them onto a second, third fourth artboards for consistancy I then select them all and convert to guides. I can't leave them as strokes because as guides they are: Non-printing Easy to hide/reveal with keyboard shortcuts Snappable (Is that a word? I can snap to them) If I try do this with regular ruler guides, the guides only display on the selected artboard. TIt's a fight to get them nicely positioned since I find when I drag them onto the artboard, they snap to guides on other artboards – even though I can't see them. Attached is a screenshot showing my preferred set up versus what I currently have to do. Even if my workflow is rare, the addition of this feature allows for creating diagonal guides, curved guides, short guides and a general ability to copy-n-paste guides onto other artboards and even other documents. All are super useful. Ben, eb.artserv, Fixx and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_H Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 However, I realise that using my own argument in another thread (view here), I shouldn't actually be using Designer to do a flyer layout – I should be using Publisher, so creating advanced guide layouts shouldn't really be a feature request at this stage. Of course, if Publisher doesn't deliver advanced guides like I need, I'll repost my feature request. ;) cadobir 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotblack Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 This a very important feature for me too. Handling the guides as an extra layer would be nice, Just move a shape to that layer and it is a guide. Petar Petrenko, Rivka, cadobir and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadobir Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 It would be great to be able to designate layers as non-printing, as you can in InDesign and some other advanced graphics programs. Krustysimplex, Stephen_H and Petar Petrenko 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protonsnow Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 +1 Yes, we need this feature. I'm old-school. I used to work with Macromedia Freehand, which already had this feature back in 2003... Yes, That's over 16 years ago. And the way it worked was brilliantly simple: All guides were automatically put on a special 'guides' layer. All you needed to do to convert an object to a guide was to move the object to the guides layer. Quick, simple, no hassle and a very useful feature. Personally I don't like Illustrator (the last version of Freehand - v11 - hasn't been updated since 2004 and is still better and faster than recent versions of illustrator. I purchased Affinity Designer 2 days ago, but the lack of this feature is a bit disappointing. eb.artserv 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceNoise Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 +1 I very need this feature. I very often create custom guidelines for example icons grids. Quote Mac Os 10.15.X — Affinity Designer 1.8.X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaLtai Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 This thread will celebrate 5 years anniversary soon. Any hope this feature will be realized? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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