On the View menu, select the equivalent option.On the main toolbar, click Show Baseline Grid Manager.For example, choosing 100% will make the baseline grid visible at a zoom level of 100% or above. Display Threshold-adjust the zoom level below which grids will not be displayed ( Baseline Grid Manager only).Show Baseline Grids-ticking on this checkbox will show or hide baseline grids ( Baseline Grid Manager only).

Drag the slider to set the opacity of the line color.

Color-click on the swatch to display a pop-up panel to set the line color.

Grid Spacing-specify how far apart consecutive horizontal grid lines are.

The Top of Page option is used for facing page spreads arranged vertically-you can restart the grid from the top of the second page in the spread.

Relative To-specify what the baseline grid's starting position is in relation to.

Start Position-specify the offset of the first grid line from the origin at Relative To.

Use Baseline Grid-ticking this checkbox will enable the baseline grid.

The following settings can be adjusted from the Baseline Grid Manager: The text frame baseline grid is controlled via the Text Frame panel.īaseline grid settings are applicable for Frame Text only. for caption text, quotes, etc), where the frame text will adopt its own independent baseline grid rules and not those of the document baseline grid. You can adjust your baseline grid from the Baseline Grid Manager for a baseline grid spanning across a whole page, or from the Text Frame panel for a baseline grid that has been applied to an individual text frame.įrame-specific baseline grids are useful for text frames that use a different font sizes (e.g. If you increase the font size of any text to be greater than the current Grid Spacing size, Publisher will set the line height to be twice the baseline height. The baseline grid is blue by default but can be any color you choose. Setting the grid spacing to the same size as your body text leading means that your frame text should snap to, and perfectly align with, the baseline grid. The baseline grid's Grid Spacing option overrides the leading value of frame text. A baseline grid can be applied to the entire document or individual text frames within it, and will align baselines across linked or completely separate text frames. It's not just a few pixels - it's really visible to the naked eye.The baseline grid is overlaid over your page to help you align text. It's clear that when something is aligned using the center green line, it's not centered at all. I do not have the grid enabled otherwise - I only did that for the screenshot and screen rec here. In the screen rec I also show the Snapping settings. I have also enabled the grid so you can see that whatever the green snap line is finding is neither the grid nor the guide. I've attached a screenshot and screen rec. I've enabled them all and turned off one by one to see if anything changed.) I have already tried all kinds of other things based on searches here and nothing fixes this (eg, Force Pixel alignment, Snap to spread, Snap to layer geometry, etc. The only option I have set in Snapping is 'snap to guides' for All Layers. I've checked if it was still aligning to the grid for some reason and it's also not aligned to the grid lines. My expectation is that when I am moving an object, once it is centered between the two closest vertical guides, the green line will appear to let me know.

On another layer, I want to be able to select the Artistic Text and have it center in the table cell - this would be done by having it center between two vertical guides.

I have a table on its own layer, which I then used to create the guides.

Affinity designer grid and snap