![]() ![]() I figured out that you can just go to - View - Guides Manager - type 3 columns, 1 row, 0 gutter, Style outline, and color light blue, to recreate her guides. You can copy it twice to recreate her 3 rectangles that she then converts to guides. You can create a rectangle and when dragging it horizontally Designer will tell you when you hit 3.66. I came across this video and translated the instructions to Designer. I started thinking that it would be easier to find an Illustrator tri-fold template so I search for those. Most people I know who could benefit from a desktop publishing application will look elsewhere. As something of a computer and publishing geek myself I might find that fun. It seems basic templates could be created in minutes by experienced professionals and the rest of us would not have to stumble around figure everything out from scratch. The reasons for not including templates are not clear to me. Whether Serif will supply templates, or encourage others to produce them, depends on how much Serif wants to restrict the market for AFPub. I am a rank amateur who thinks templates are important, as in Microsoft Publisher that I have used on and off for the past couple of decades. ![]() ![]() Does a program become more professional by leaving out useful features that would appeal to a broader range of end-users? Why would a software developer limit its market when simple additions to the product would broaden the market? Others say professional publishing applications should not have templates at all. And you'll find a lot of opinions about templates that began a year ago during AFPub's beta testing. ![]()
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