Guide, margin and frame visibility

[louismac]

Toggling the visibility of margins, guides and frame edges is something that designers working by eye need do be able to do easily. Publisher has a keyboard shortcut for guides, but this doesn't affect the visibility of margins (in ID, the same shortcut toggles both simultaneously). To toggle the visibility of margins requires a separate operation involving manual selection in the View menu. This seems unduly cumbersome, so it would be good if there were a keyboard shortcut for this. Having for years had the visibility of margins and guides governed by the same ID keyboard shortcut, I have never myself encountered any reason for them to be treated separately; a margin is, after all, a kind of guide.  As for frame edges, which admittedly are something else, their visibility in Publisher seems to be governed only by the hand tool, which Publisher unusually calls the 'View tool'  (when this tool is selected, frame edges disappear ). This can be activated with the tool palette shortcut keystroke-H, and deactivated with another toolbox shortcut, such as Keystroke-T (one of the text tools) or Keystroke-V (the 'Move tool' - dark arrow). But if you happen to be keying in or editing text in a text frame, you obviously can't use these simple alphabetic keystrokes - unless you come out of your editorial operation first, they will just add a T or a V to your text content, and the ESC key seems not to get you out of this for some reason. The combination of an alphanumeric key with a modifier key  would be a more convenient way of toggling frame edge visibility.

Louismac

[walt.farrell]

View > Hide All Guides (ctrl+shift+W) hides guides, margins, and text frames in Affinity Publisher for Windows.

[louismac]

Thanks Walt. That would be a perfect solution. I've had a look but can't find that view menu option on the Mac beta, andon my Mac keyboard neither cmd+shift+W nor ctrl+shift+W has any effect except an audible clonk. Maybe the Windows version is ahead of the Mac in this respect?

Louismac

[walt.farrell]

Mac and Win should be the same codebase, but I suppose there could be differences. On the Windows View menu, Hide All Guides is right below Show Text Flow and above Studio.

In the Preferences dialog, Layout/View, you can look for the shortcut keys that should work for you.

[kpaul]

It’s ctrl + w on the Mac.