Ikikuru Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Hey Guys, Am I missing something super obvious. I can't see anywhere on screen that shows the ruler measurements for the X and Y axis. It great having a ruler, but just looking at it is not accurate enough. I'm sure I'm missing something here. Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 For all apps you need to have a document open and then View > Show Rulers is available, it is a toggle on/off. To change the units which is what you may actually want use the cursor to go to the upper left corner and control click on the intersection. Ulysses 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikikuru Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 3 hours ago, Old Bruce said: For all apps you need to have a document open and then View > Show Rulers is available, it is a toggle on/off. To change the units which is what you may actually want use the cursor to go to the upper left corner and control click on the intersection. Hi, Thanks for the reply. This is not my problem though. I have the rulers up. I can see them. What I'm getting at is I thought / think there should be a dynamic readout somewhere that shows the actual X & Y measurements. All I can do at the moment is look at the floating line on the ruler that of course moves as I move the cursor. Surely somewhere it should tell me these measurements? Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Bohn Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Check the transform panel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Transform panel is not dynamic - on the fly. In Affinity Photo is Info panel. https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Panels/infoPanel.html Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Bohn Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 I don't know what you mean by that because it most certainly is. I draw a box, the Transform panel shows me the X and Y coordinates. As I move the box around, the coordinates change dynamically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 But when there is no selection the X, Y coordinates do not reflect the position of the mouse. So, it is not possible to start an object at a known point. Instead we have to draw the object and then move it to where we want it. Compare with the Info panel in Photo (or other apps such as Xara Designer) where the coordinates of the pointer are always shown. Pšenda 1 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 15 hours ago, Ikikuru said: Thanks for the reply. This is not my problem though. I have the rulers up. I can see them. What I'm getting at is I thought / think there should be a dynamic readout somewhere that shows the actual X & Y measurements. All I can do at the moment is look at the floating line on the ruler that of course moves as I move the cursor. Surely somewhere it should tell me these measurements? I'm not sure if this is what you want, but as with the other Affinity applications, if you have Snapping enabled, and an object selected, you can press the Ctrl key (on Windows; possibly Cmd on Mac) and hover the mouse over other objects and you get a dynamic measurement showing you the distances from the selected object to the one you're hovering over. Quote -- 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...
Ikikuru Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 Hi, Thank's, that goes some way to enabling what I'm looking for, though maybe more so for the other topic I had open about measuring against different anchor points. What I did just figure is that when you drag from the top left corner of the screen to reset where the ruler begins on the page, you get a dynamic read out of the X & Y as you drag the ruler into place. What I was getting at is that I'd like to then see that dynamic read out all the time as I move the cursor once the ruler is set. That way say I could move an object and know that say it's exactly say 30mm on the Y axis. At the moment if I'm dragging an object around, I can't see accurately see the measurements as I drag it. I use Corel Draw and there you can always see a read of the ruler measurements relative to the cursor position on screen. I hope that makes sense!?! Cristina_D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikikuru Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 On 6/29/2019 at 3:59 AM, Aammppaa said: But when there is no selection the X, Y coordinates do not reflect the position of the mouse. So, it is not possible to start an object at a known point. Instead we have to draw the object and then move it to where we want it. Compare with the Info panel in Photo (or other apps such as Xara Designer) where the coordinates of the pointer are always shown. Yes, That's what I mean Aammppaa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikikuru Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 On 6/29/2019 at 3:14 AM, Jeremy Bohn said: I don't know what you mean by that because it most certainly is. I draw a box, the Transform panel shows me the X and Y coordinates. As I move the box around, the coordinates change dynamically. See the post below Aammppaa, that's what I mean, however your advice helps massively. I did not even see that panel!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STU H Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Double click on the object and you get a box near the top of the screen that displays the dimensions of the object. Click on the very small box with the arrow inside it next to the word 'size'. This opens a 'Format AutoShape' box. Click on 'Layout' and you can enter the horizontal and vertical measurements and click 'okay' to place your object exactly where you want it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 2 hours ago, STU H said: Double click on the object and you get a box near the top of the screen that displays the dimensions of the object. Click on the very small box with the arrow inside it next to the word 'size'. This opens a 'Format AutoShape' box. Click on 'Layout' and you can enter the horizontal and vertical measurements and click 'okay' to place your object exactly where you want it. Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Stu. That sounds interesting, but I don't think I've ever seen something like in the Affinity applications. Can you provide a screenshot that shows it? Thanks. Quote -- 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...
Cristina_D Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 (edited) @Ikikuru did you mange to find out how to bring the dynamic readout on the X / Y axis is Affinity Publisher? I've come across the same thing and I can't seem to find a way to activate this on the actual axis. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks Edited April 16, 2023 by Cristina_D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 @Cristina_D: If I understand what you're asking, it's explained in this Help topic: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/DesignAids/measuring.html By the way, to "tag" another user, you must: type an @ sign start typing their username select the name you want from the dropdown list of matching names. It will then appear as a gray-highlighted field, as at the beginning of this post. Cristina_D 1 Quote -- 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...
Cristina_D Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Hello @walt.farrell- thank you for your reply. This is exactly what I was looking for; honestly I thought it's a setting that needs to be switched on but it turns out the 'dynamic measurement' shows up if the object is selected and you try to move it by using the keyboard arrows. Thank you walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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