Peter Werner Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I may have missed something, but it would be incredibly helpful if the snapping options recognized column boundaries as snap targets. I think this is something that should definitely be in the 1.0 release. Also, a grid feature for layout grids with not only support for just vertical divisions for columns, but also horizontal rows would be fantastic. It should be possible to use different grid options per spread or master page. Ideally, there would also be an option to also rotate this grid at an angle and have rectangular text frames, shapes, images etc. be created and transformed and snapped at that angle to make layouts with slightly rotated content really easy without the need to place nested documents (and all the ugly workarounds that come with that like duplicated styles). Burny and spamjim 2 Quote www.peterwerner.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affinity Fan Boy Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 First of all: OMG so happy that this product is coming! The last tool I need to get rid of Adobe! Thanks so much for the great work! I absolutely agree with Peter on snapping to text column. Also, I can't find a way to change the text column width; that will hopefully be a feature I would have loved to see a columns / margins setting like they do with Indesign, but i guess the text frames with columns would do just as well if snapping was a thing I was actually looking for gutter width, but you answered that question as well. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 @Affinity Fan Boy You can resize columns on page by dragging the gutter between columns. For more control open View > Studio > Text Frame Affinity Fan Boy 1 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 @Peter Werner Publisher has all the usual grid options plus baseline grid. View > Grid View > Grid and Axis Manager View > Baseline Grid Manager Perfectly possible to set up a rotated grid, and then snap text / picture frames etc to it. However the Grid seems to be document based rather than per Page / Master Page. Shapes, and Picture Frames can be created at the rotated angle (create along a line by holding rightmouse during creation) but this doesn't seem to apply to Artistic Text / Text Frames / Placing images. So… +1 for Snapping to Column boundaries. +1 for creating everything along a line. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Werner Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 @Aammppaa Thanks for the tip with the rotated grids for angled layouts, I'll have to look into those options! However, what I'm looking for in addition to these settings is a layout grid that allows me to set up guides for text columns and image positioning, such as six columns with an x mm gutter, similar to what InDesign has. It has to work in addition to the regular document grid. Just like the "Margins and Columns" settings in InDesign, but with the additional option to do the same thing also with horizontal divisions, not just vertical ones. For instance, it would be common for a page layout to have 7 grid columns for a 3-column page. Then text frames, sidebars, image descriptions and so on would be created spanning one or more columns of the layout grid. This can be done manually with guides on master pages of course, but adjustments are rather time consuming. Mr. Doodlezz 1 Quote www.peterwerner.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spamjim Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 This is a weird omission and I'm wondering if I'm just not seeing where the function actually exists. For those uncertain of what page grids look like... The workaround, for now, appears to be creating a text frame with columns on a master page. Then drag guides from the rulers to align with the text frame columns. Delete the text frame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 UPDATE: You can already load and save grids in the Grid Manager, so not too much hassle to switch between a square grid and a rotated grid @Peter Werner I have never used InDesign, so I'm afraid that I can't make direct comparisons. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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