Rulers only per artboard, not over every artboard

[pruus]

I would like to make e few designs. And therefore i use rulers to mark the positions. I would believe if you have more than 1 artboard that a ruler-line could be placed all over all artboards. But that does not work. Do i something wrong? See enclosed document with two artboards. Selecting an artboard shows the ruler for that artboard.

 

test-ruler-lines.afdesign

[Aammppaa]

I believe that Guides are local to an artboard by design, in the same way that Grids are local to an artboard.

To work around this try one of the following…

1. Don't use a guide. Instead draw a straight line with the pen tool across all the artboards.
   Ensure that you have appropriate snapping options set.
   Don't forget to turn off your drawn guides before exporting / printing!
2. Set up the guides on one artboard, and then duplicate that artboard as required.
   Guides will also be copied, but any modifications will only apply to one artboard at a time.
3. Don't worry about guides at all, just rely on Affinity's excellent snapping, which works seamlessly across artboards.

[pruus]

Thanks, that is a workaround. Better is an option in ruilers to make them global or local for one artbard. Still work to do for Affinity. Allthough i am verry happy with this tool.

[fde101]

Rulers are global...  guides are local to the artboard, or to the page in Publisher.  In Publisher you can put guides on a master page to make them available across multiple "normal" document pages which have the master page assigned to them, but Designer doesn't have an equivalent to that.  Note that as artboards can be different sizes, guides might not always match up between them in a meaningful way.

[silkentrance]

You can group your artboards and then have global guides but they won't show in the individual artboards, though.

 

There is also 

 

but this will work only with same size artboards.

The guides/their relative distance will scale with the artboard, something that will not work with differently scaled artboards, also, changing the margin/guides on one artboard will not replicate that setting across all artboards.

Perhaps this would be a feature, i.e. inherit guides from parent group or something along that way.

Edited February 1, 2021 by silkentrance