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Swift Publisher can show vertical and horizontal rulers on every page. To show or hide rulers, use the menu commands View > Show Rulers and View > Hide Rulers. You can select the units of measure (inches or millimeters) for rulers in the Preferences dialog.
The zero point coordinates correspond to the top left corner of the page.
Rulers are also used for adding layout guides.
You can add vertical and horizontal guides to the design. Guides make it easier to align objects on the page. Every page has its own guides. Guides are displayed as blue lines.
There are several ways of adding guides:
To add a guide in the middle of the page, click somewhere on the page holding down the Ctrl key (or click right mouse button), then select Add Vertical Guideline or Add Horizontal Guideline in the context menu.
Place the mouse pointer on the vertical or horizontal ruler, press the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer onto the canvas. Release the button where you want to place that guide.
To delete a guide, drag it onto the ruler until the guide disappears. Or place the mouse pointer over the guide, bring up the context menu and choose Delete Guide.
Swift Publisher can add a grid of guides to form columns of text and pictures more easily. Select Insert > Layout Guides menu to set how many rows and columns you want to get. If you set 2 in Columns, that means, three vertical guides will be added to mark up two columns. Gutter is the space between columns or rows. If you need to make some space, set Gutter to more than zero.
Remove existing layout guidelines - if checked, existing guidelines will be removed. If not checked, new guides will be added to the existing ones.
You can also select an area that will be marked up with guidelines: Margins area or Whole page.
You can lock guides to prevent them from accidental moving: Format > Lock Guides, they change the color to black. To unlock, select Format > Unlock Guides menu.
The program displays the coordinate of a guide when you move it with the mouse.
Page margins are set up differently for pages that have master
page and those that don't have it.
Margins of pages without master are set in the Document Setup dialog (the File > Document Setup... menu).
Margins of pages with master are set for every master page via the Page Preview panel.
The measurement units for margin size can be changed in program preferences.
Page margins can be used to mark non-printable area on the sheet of paper (useful if your printer can not print from edge to edge). Or you can use them as guidelines.
You can hide margins and guides using the menu View > Hide Margins and Guides, to make them visible select View > Show Margins and Guides. Margins and guides are not printed.
Use the Toggle Preview Mode button in the toolbar to make margins, guides and object borders visible/invisible.