Hi folks,
I'm using Affinity Designer to draft sewing patterns as well. I used to draft these on Illustrator, now on AD I'm exploring the basic tools and functions that are necessary to start a draft and then finally print them in A4 pdf patterns. So this post is particularly for the Printing/Artboard layout side of it.
So far, I have drafted some simple shapes and and I'm looking to make this into a pdf doc so I can print it on my A4 printer.
For this to work, (as I did on Illustrator), I need tiled artboards lined up, side to side(Both horzontally and vertically) and I will then place my pattern shapes on these A4 sized artboards and make my continuity marks and page numbers so I can line it up correctly after they are printed.
The issue is this: I line up the artboards as I want but then when I paste the shape on the artboards, it is pasted on only the "active" A4 artboard and not pasted or overflowing to the other A4 boards.I tried several things. For example, I selected all the tiled artboards and drew shapes cutting across artboards, which worked fine. But even when all artboards are selected, and then I paste my vector shapes, it only gets pasted on to the 'one active artboard and the 'overflowing parts' are not seen. Also, selecting all artboards is not a good viable option because I will have 50-100 boards based on the pattern and I can't select all of them all the time to draw on these artboards.
Could anyone please let me know how to go about this? Please see attached image for what I'm trying to achieve.
PS: I have several issues with Artboards, I'll write them in another post..
Regards,
Pree
