subetha

+1 from me. It's ridiculous this tool is still missing!!! It has been asked for for 2 years now!

Ah, thanks for the information! Another lesson learned...

Yesterday I bought a clipart file which was delivered as .ai - when opening it in Designer (1.8.3 and 1.7.3) it was shown as an empty canvas, both on Mac and PC. So I re-activated Adobe Illustrator, which opened it correctly including some kind of conversion. The saved file then finally could be opened with Designer. I can't upload the file here publicly because this would infringe the copyright, but maybe the developers would like to have a look? Axel Hess

This option is included in Publisher, but missing in Designer. Including the automatic update of externally changed files, please...

Thank you so much!!! And have a good day!

Got it!

I found the linking possibility, but not how to batch update.

I am trying, but where exactly do I find this in publisher?

So you open the designer file in publisher, make changes, save it and open again in designer?

Okay, I just had a close look into my files. Somehow I managed to place the logo as "linked" into one of my layouts - unfortunately I don't dig how to reproduce this, can anybody help me, pleeease? 🙏 When I open this document I get about 7 notices that it has been changed outside - how can I update all of them at once? Or have them updated automatically?

I'm searching for a solution to the same problem. Is there REALLY no possibility to place a designer document into another without embedding??? I am working on a corporate design for a client, including quite a few different media items. If for instance i change some detail of the logo or another repeatedly used graphic object, of course I want it to be updated in every file where I placed it - no problem in Illustrator or Indesign. Do I REALLY have to update the file manually everywhere?? That would not only be tedious, but extremely prone to errors.

I completely second Keito64's wish! The main reason for me is the buggy version 1.8.0 of Publisher on Windows right now - it did not even start after a few times of usage. I had to downgrade the complete Affinity suite on two computers just because of that - not only on that Windows machine, but also on my mac to still be able to work with both computers on the same files. Luckily I noticed the problem before converting all the recent files... else I'd really had been f***ed! I can totally understand that problems in new versions of any software may occur - but in that case it's an absolute necessity to have some kind of interchange of files between versions!!! Maybe a possibility to import newer formats, or a separate conversion app?

I knew it had to be so simple... 😂 this did the trick. Thanks again!!

Thanks! Don't know if this is practical for documents with many artboards, but for now very helpful advice!

Is there a keyboard shortcut available to navigate between artboards in Designer?