Column Gutters

[PeteV1945]

Trying to create a 6 col. newspaper page. How the heck do you change the gutter width?

This just the first thing I can't figure out. I've produced stuff in Quark XPress PageMaker and Indesign since forever and this program is even less intuitive than Scribus, at least for publication production.

In my never humble opinion your tutorials are laughable and useless. Maybe you should get someone that actually uses a publishing program to explain things.

[StuartRc]

Gutter Width is editable from the Text Frame Panel [ATL+T] or View/Studio/Text Frame

[walt.farrell]

As clearly shown in the Columns tutorial you use View > Studio > Text Frame, and you'll find the Gutter setting(s) in the Columns section.

[PeteV1945]

It is not clear. It may be if I was viewing the thing on a 30" monitor but the black UI style is unreadable to my old eyes.

 

Now that I have seen the setting, I must say it is very cumbersome. There needs to be a way to change all the gutters at once and not change the text box size. Or the gutter setting should be an integral part of the initial setup like Quark and Indesign

I hope you don't taker offense at my criticism, just that it is very exciting to be a beta tester on another layout program. I bettad InDesign 2, Quark 5 and some other stuff. Good job so far but you have along way to go.

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, PeteV1945 said:

There needs to be a way to change all the gutters at once and not change the text box size.

I have not tried it yet, and am not at my computer right now, but I recall a "balance page" option in that panel. I wonder if that might do what you want?

[h_d]

21 minutes ago, PeteV1945 said:

There needs to be a way to change all the gutters at once and not change the text box size.

Agreed. The only way I can see to do it is to reduce the number of columns in the text frame (say six) to one, then increase to two, then type in the gutter width that you want, then set the number of columns back to the original number. Which is a bit cludgy.

@walt.farrell: the "Balance columns" checkbox doesn't appear to do anything in this situation. Maybe I'm missing something though.

[nwhit]

+1

[karanatsios]

I can't create a now topic in this forum. But i want to know where can i define my columes and can i import indesign documents

[Andrew Simpson]

5 hours ago, PeteV1945 said:

It is not clear. It may be if I was viewing the thing on a 30" monitor but the black UI style is unreadable to my old eyes.

Small note on this....You can change the UI background from black to light in the Preferences > User Interface

[PeteV1945]

I know that but the tutor should too.  It's too had to see the UI in the tutorial. In my opinion, the dark UI is bad design no matter who does it.

[if.rivic]

Was wondering how to set up columns too. Found it as described above in the Text Frame Panel, but in my opinion the gutters need to be able to be changed all at once as well as without changing the overall frame width.