PeteV1945 Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartRc Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Gutter Width is editable from the Text Frame Panel [ATL+T] or View/Studio/Text Frame Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.2 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.5 2.2402 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 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. StuartRc 1 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteV1945 Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 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? -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 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. Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwhit Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 +1 -------------------- iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020 i7 72GB) • AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB • macOS Sonoma MacBook Pro, 13", M1 2020 • 16 GB • macOS Sonoma iPad Air 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karanatsios Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Simpson Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteV1945 Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
if.rivic Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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