Can you ROTATE a guide in Affinity Designer?

Hi,

Does anyone know if it possible to ROTATE a guide in Affinity Designer?

I am designing a font, which I started in Adobe Illustrator. I have opened the file in Affinity Designer and saved it in the AD format.

Currently, I have had to come up with another way of creating or 'faking' it. I have used angled lines to use as guides that extend beyond the canvas and have set the object centre points where they cross, from which I can then rotate each 'guide'. I have had to do this because you cannot set guides beyond the canvas (which is a pain). It's not perfect, and I just wondered if you can do it in Affinity Designer...

You couldn't rotate a guide in Illustrator CS6 either (I don't know about now). You have been able to rotate guides in CorelDraw since 2012 in version 12 (2018). They are called 'Dynamic' guides, and you just have to double-click a guide to bring up the rotation handle or type in the angle.

It's such a simple thing (and really useful), but I couldn't find any info on it....

Thanks, komatös,

That might work. I'll try that...

Yes, you're right, Old Bruce. There was that option in Illustrator. I'd forgotten that. That might even be better (for me, at least), because I need to set several guides, all at different angles...

Maybe in Affinity Designer 4, eh? Ha-ha!

Quote from loukash

FreeHand could already do that…

Freehand... Something else Adobe purchased, then retired...

Quote from loukash

You can easily work around by creating fake guides on a separate layer, then lock the layer so that you don't accidentally move them, and enable any snapping options you may need:

Thanks, loukash.

Yes, I have already done this, but as you can't set vertical or horizontal guides beyond the canvas in Affinity Designer, it makes rotating them from either end of the fake 'guide' impossible. I need precision and to be able to rotate the 'guide' from either end and there seems to be a bug which, if you've moved the centre point of a line outside of the canvas, then try to move it again, it seems to be locked and no longer accessible. It's NOT locked (nor is the layer), but it is stuck and you click on it and it won't move at all...

Quote from Maarten

Maybe after 30th of october there's full 'Creative Freedom' on the guides

Let's hope, eh? Maybe then you'll be able to travel out and set a guide beyond the galaxy...

Me too...

Freehand and CorelDraw is where I started. Then I bought Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign (which had just been released and was cheap) and taught myself those.

Freehand, Fontographer and a few other Macromedia apps I think I got in one package. It's also where I got my interest in font design.

CorelDraw too. You can export to .TTF (TrueType font) from CorelDraw ... from version 5!!!

Quote from loukash

Adobe killed FreeHand at v11/MX, after buying Macromedia around 2005 or so. I was genuinely pissed then.

I remember it well. That was the start of Adobe's menacing and controlling behaviour, buying up all the other graphic design software and then retiring them.

Incidentally, CorelDraw 5 still works on my gas-driven tilley lamp. I just have to remember to put a shilling in the meter once in a while...

Thinks: a... shilling? tilley lamp?

It's OldSpeak. A bit like George Orwell's '1984', but in reverse...

Quote from Old Bruce

Do tilley lamps have meters?

No. Not any more. And they don't have stairs either. I can remember climbing up the cold, dark tilley lamp stairs in my lime-green Hickadocky boots to light the candle so that the ships didn't crash into the rocks in my heart. Then I would hurry through the great hall of Tilley and approach the meter, which would open its eyes and yawn for me, and I would deposit a shilling and listen as the Tilley gulped and swallowed, and instantly the great hall was flooded with light... Oh, those were the days...