rui_mac Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Being able to only drag guides from the ruler with the Move Tool is not desired. We should be able to drag guides from the rulers even when using any other tool. Being able to create guides (while using other tools) with Alt+click on the ruler is nice but not accurate enough and doesn't work with snap. Nichod and Grapefruit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 21, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 21, 2014 This was already requested and closed by design. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nichod Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Which I think is wrong. Right now I'd say it's one of the most frustrating limitations. You have to constantly switch to the move tool to access guide creation. Illustrator, Sketch, etc don't require the move tool to be active. It's a weird quirk that is a bad design choice, and UX. B4ttleCat and Grapefruit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 5, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 5, 2014 I've also been very frustrated by it when trying to use the program - but I do completely agree with the reasoning behind why it is the way it is. I can't accept that I would start editing a guide in the Shape tool just because I started my drag near it. There would have to be a modifier to say that I intended to drag the guide now - and we don't have any modifiers left across all tools! I'm definitely open to hearing ideas for resolving this. Thanks, Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 It makes sense Matt, sometimes, some tools are in need of "working outside the main panel" and finding that new guides appear everytime... can be annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Here comes an idea: You may drag drag guides from the ruler within any tool you’re in but changing them on the canvas is only allowed with the move tool. Have a nice day, Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 5, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 5, 2014 We were just talking about this - but with the additional extra of being able to edit the position of the guide if you start dragging it from the ruler area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 By the way... would be great being able to change the guide's color. I don't mean one by one (multicolored guides) but , all the guides at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 5, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 5, 2014 Yes, that's not a bad idea! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted September 5, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 5, 2014 The only thing I'd say to counter that idea - snapping uses colour coding to show when you've made a snap in either the X or Y axis, so red and green are used to show that a guide has been used in a snap. I went with blue because it isn't one of the colours we currently use to denote snaps (red, green, yellow and purple). Arguably we could have all of that fully customisable, but where do we stop? Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nichod Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 We were just talking about this - but with the additional extra of being able to edit the position of the guide if you start dragging it from the ruler area. This was my original idea, and how I presented it in my feature request. (linked to above) I'd also welcome the guide appearing on hovering over the corresponding ruler. This is incredibly useful to quickly check alignment without having to create a guide, and unnecessary visual clutter. I've attached a gif that illustrates the guide on hover, and it also shows the pixel guide (as requested here: that Sketch provides that are incredibly useful. The tool + ruler guide feature, and the distance based guides are probably the two tools I'd miss the most if I switched to Designer from Sketch. And would probably prevent me from using Designer at work since precision is key with UI design. B4ttleCat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I understand Ben, it was just an idea. I can wait 6 versions for that to come :D That looks fantastic Nichod :D would be a dream come true!!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B4ttleCat Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 +1 from me. This is infuriating, along with guides not snapping to a marquee (of which I made a separate post about). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I've attached a gif that illustrates the guide on hover, and it also shows the pixel guide (as requested here: that Sketch provides that are incredibly useful. The tool + ruler guide feature, and the distance based guides are probably the two tools I'd miss the most if I switched to Designer from Sketch. And would probably prevent me from using Designer at work since precision is key with UI design. +1, it's a new and higher level for rulers and guides... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 What do I do if I need to place a guide on a node? Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 What do I do if I need to place a guide on a node? This has always been one of my greatest frustrations in DrawPlus. You can only see the nodes on a line or a shape when the Node Tool is selected, and you can't move a guide when in that mode. I can understand the rationale behind placing limitations on the movement of guides, but I think we should be able to move them with the Node Tool as well as the Move Tool. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted July 15, 2016 Staff Share Posted July 15, 2016 Ability to edit guides in other tools will be coming soon. When it is done, you'll be able to place a guide on a node when in the Node/Pen tools. CartoonMike, evtonic3 and Alfred 3 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiredframe Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Also guides should snap to the grid as soon as I drag them out, that's not the case right now. And yes, locking guides is really important ;) Any plans to add customizable layout grid overlays (like bootstrap) to artboards like in Sketch? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted July 18, 2016 Staff Share Posted July 18, 2016 Just to be clear - the thing that is not working is snapping when creating a new guide - any kind of snapping. It's an area of our tool framework that needs to be reworked. Due to the way we separated our back end and front end code for cross-platform, the action of creating a guide is front end driven, whereas everything else done by tools is back end driven, and it is the back end that does the snapping. We are going to address this in the future. Until then, there's no point in describing every way in which a new guide doesn't snap. It'll also be the same for dropping symbols from the UI onto page, or for drop placement of image files from outside Affinity. Once you have a guide, it will snap to anything that other objects can snap to - same as with all other objects that already exist on the spread. Wiredframe 1 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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