Tony Cotterill

Hi. I am so happy with AP. It's sooo much better than the previous rival whom we don't mention...
There is only one feature I still miss and you've probably guessed what it is from the title of this post.
Sometimes I need to switch on/off features across several different pages and it would be great to have globally linked layers to do this, instead of needing to remember where the relevant linked features are in the document. An example is language translations. Often I need to do layouts with alternate languages and changing each page of a 50 page document is a chore.
I know, I could have a separate file for the other languages but global layers would be better.
Is there anything like this in the pipeline?
Cheers,
Tony

Hi. I am so happy with AP. It's sooo much better than the previous rival whom we don't mention...
There is only one feature I still miss and you've probably guessed what it is from the title of this post.
Sometimes I need to switch on/off features across several different pages and it would be great to have globally linked layers to do this, instead of needing to remember where the relevant linked features are in the document. An example is language translations. Often I need to do layouts with alternate languages and changing each page of a 50 page document is a chore.
I know, I could have a separate file for the other languages but global layers would be better.
Is there anything like this in the pipeline?
Cheers,
Tony

Hi. I am so happy with AP. It's sooo much better than the previous rival whom we don't mention...
There is only one feature I still miss and you've probably guessed what it is from the title of this post.
Sometimes I need to switch on/off features across several different pages and it would be great to have globally linked layers to do this, instead of needing to remember where the relevant linked features are in the document. An example is language translations. Often I need to do layouts with alternate languages and changing each page of a 50 page document is a chore.
I know, I could have a separate file for the other languages but global layers would be better.
Is there anything like this in the pipeline?
Cheers,
Tony

Hi. I am so happy with AP. It's sooo much better than the previous rival whom we don't mention...
There is only one feature I still miss and you've probably guessed what it is from the title of this post.
Sometimes I need to switch on/off features across several different pages and it would be great to have globally linked layers to do this, instead of needing to remember where the relevant linked features are in the document. An example is language translations. Often I need to do layouts with alternate languages and changing each page of a 50 page document is a chore.
I know, I could have a separate file for the other languages but global layers would be better.
Is there anything like this in the pipeline?
Cheers,
Tony

Hi. I am so happy with AP. It's sooo much better than the previous rival whom we don't mention...
There is only one feature I still miss and you've probably guessed what it is from the title of this post.
Sometimes I need to switch on/off features across several different pages and it would be great to have globally linked layers to do this, instead of needing to remember where the relevant linked features are in the document. An example is language translations. Often I need to do layouts with alternate languages and changing each page of a 50 page document is a chore.
I know, I could have a separate file for the other languages but global layers would be better.
Is there anything like this in the pipeline?
Cheers,
Tony

Hi. I am so happy with AP. It's sooo much better than the previous rival whom we don't mention...
There is only one feature I still miss and you've probably guessed what it is from the title of this post.
Sometimes I need to switch on/off features across several different pages and it would be great to have globally linked layers to do this, instead of needing to remember where the relevant linked features are in the document. An example is language translations. Often I need to do layouts with alternate languages and changing each page of a 50 page document is a chore.
I know, I could have a separate file for the other languages but global layers would be better.
Is there anything like this in the pipeline?
Cheers,
Tony

Brilliant. Yes. Thanks.
I sent my reply via Ren's thread.

Hi. I am so happy with AP. It's sooo much better than the previous rival whom we don't mention...
There is only one feature I still miss and you've probably guessed what it is from the title of this post.
Sometimes I need to switch on/off features across several different pages and it would be great to have globally linked layers to do this, instead of needing to remember where the relevant linked features are in the document. An example is language translations. Often I need to do layouts with alternate languages and changing each page of a 50 page document is a chore.
I know, I could have a separate file for the other languages but global layers would be better.
Is there anything like this in the pipeline?
Cheers,
Tony

Well, embarrassingly, I can't remember exactly which files gave me the issue - I'm working on quite a few.
Also, I haven't encountered the problem recently, ever since I split the files into smaller sections, so I suspect it is a memory linked issue.
I only have 8Gb of RAM and I'm going to look at upgrading it after lockdown.
So.. Thanks for your reply but I may just be wasting your time.
Let's let it ride for now and if it happens again I'll come back to you.
Cheers,
Tony

Will do, Dan.
Fingers crossed and touching wood it seems to be okay SO FAR.
Thanks for all your assistance.

Okay. No worries. I don't know what was going on, but a de/re install fixed it.
Tony

I find layers VERY useful for design, but I don't quite understand how they work in Affinity, yet. I come from an InDesign/Scribus viewpoint.
Each article on the pasteboard seems to have its own layer - which is new - but in order to keep them in some kind of order they need to be grouped, it seems.
However when moved such that they nest inside other layers the nested layers become invisible, even though the visible tick is still showing. What am I going wrong?
Also... is there any plan to have a global layer option? I see why they are currently page specific, but sometimes it's useful to be able to amend the layers document-wide.