

The Guides Manager, with examples of filled (left) and outline (right) guide styles behind. Those margins can be adjusted in the Guides Manager’s mid-right section. On the manager’s right-hand side, click the Column setting’s arrow and drag the slider the guides on the current page will update instantly.Ĭolumn guides sit within the page margins. To set up column guides, choose View> Guides Manager.
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How to set up guides in Affinity Publisher Let’s look at how to work with column guides in Affinity Publisher.ĭon’t confuse column guides with baseline grids, a separate design aid in Affinity Publisher that keeps the baselines of text in vertical alignment-even across multiple text frames.

Use them as a starting point to ensure you have a fundamentally good page design in the first place and then experiment to add flourishes to your layout.įor example, an image might become more impactful if it breaks out of the grid formed by column guides. In practice, like many design ‘rules’, column guides can be broken if there’s a good justification. As a design aid, they are a non-printing overlay on your document that is used to position and size elements to fulfil desirable design qualities like balance and harmony. Column guides are a crucial feature of Affinity Publisher designed to help you with that.Ĭolumn guides divide a page into evenly spaced columns and rows, whose numbers you choose. For your publications to please, it’s important that they follow fundamental design principles.
