Software

Layout.

The sheet a scheme leaves on, at the size it actually gets printed.

A crit board or a design and access statement is not a slide deck stretched to fit. Layout works at true sheet dimensions from the start, A1 landscape for a board, A3 for a document, with rulers, guides and a toggleable grid doing the job they do in a real page-layout tool. Drag imagery in from the gallery, set the type from a 300-family library, and export a vector PDF at the exact millimetre size a printer expects. Manual work costs no credits on any plan; asking Corb to write a frame or build a whole document from a prompt is the one thing that does.

Boards and documents, properly sized.

A real sheet, not a stretched slide

Sheet mode is one large surface at A1 landscape by default. Document mode is many pages at A3. Both, plus the full ISO A series, slide and social sizes, or a custom size in millimetres.

Type, grids and guides that snap

A 300-family self-hosted type library, four toggleable layout grids, and rulers you drag guides off, all snapping together so alignment is a property of the tool, not a habit.

Export at the size a printer expects

A vector PDF at true millimetre dimensions, with optional bleed and crop marks, is a different thing from a PNG scaled up and hoping. This is the former.

Seven founding templates, never faked content.

Image-led Board, Competition Board and Presentation Board for sheets. Design and Access Statement, Portfolio, Project Book and Client Deck for documents. Every one pre-populated with placeholder text and image frames only, so starting from a template never means presenting somebody else's fake project by accident.

Open Layout

Corb writes the copy, or the whole document.

Select a text frame and ask Corb to write it in its own named style, billed per step. Or switch Corb to Build and describe a document from scratch, working page by page from a template, for a quoted fixed fee, cheaper for a social document than an architectural one. Manual layout work stays free on every plan regardless.

Four layout grids, on by default.

Manuscript for a single text block, Columns for a three-column article, Modular for a module grid, Baseline for evenly spaced ruled lines that align type leading by eye. Elements snap to whichever is active the same way they snap to a guide, and grid lines never appear in an export.

Share as a webpage, or export the real file.

A read-only public link stays current as the document is edited, revocable and re-issuable at any time. Or export a vector multi-page PDF at true millimetre dimensions with bleed and crop marks, a PNG, or a ZIP of every page. Site plans, diagrams and other vector artwork for a board can be drawn cleanly in Vector first, then dropped straight in.

Open Vector

A Pen tool for diagram lines and arrows.

Click for a corner point, click-drag for a smooth curve, close the shape or press Enter to finish. Direct Select edits an existing line's own points and curve handles afterward. Both a drawn path and a plain straight line can carry an arrowhead at each end — circle, 15° or 45°, open or filled — the same preset set Vector uses, so a leader line or a diagram arrow reads the same whichever tool drew it.

What Layout gives you as a piece of software.

Sheets and documents, true size

One large A1 sheet or a many-page A3 document, plus the full ISO A series, slide and social sizes, or a custom millimetre size.

Seven founding templates

Boards and documents pre-populated with placeholder frames only, never faked real content.

A 300-family type library

Sans, serif, mono and display faces, openly licensed, with full size, leading, tracking and paragraph controls.

Four toggleable layout grids

Manuscript, Columns, Modular and Baseline, snapping alongside guides and never appearing in an export.

Rulers, guides and real snapping

To page edges and centre, to guides, to the grid, and to the edges and centres of other elements.

Corb writes or builds

Fill a selected frame in its own style, or build a whole document from a prompt working page by page from a template.

A true vector PDF export

At exact millimetre dimensions with optional bleed and crop marks, plus a PNG of one page or a ZIP of every page.

Share as a live webpage

A revocable, no-sign-in public link that stays current as the document is edited.

Autosave with conflict detection

Work saves continuously, with a warning if the same document is ever open in two places at once.

Frequently asked.

It covers the ground a practice actually needs InDesign for: real sheet and page dimensions, rulers and guides, a toggleable layout grid, a proper type library, and a true vector PDF export at exact millimetre size. It is not a general desktop publishing tool with InDesign's full feature depth, but for a crit board, a competition panel or a design and access statement it is built to finish the job, not start it.

Ready to start? Jump straight in.

Every ArchAdemia Tools plan includes everything on this page. From £29 a month, all in, with no per-tool fees and no surprise charges.

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