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@Catshill @Old Bruce I think the conversation is getting a bit muddled and out of context, so lets recap: The issue is that Publisher's Layer panel can get cluttered in spread mode, because it shows all the layers for the left and right pages. It was suggested that you can create a layer for "left pages" and put all your left page content in it. And then create a layer for "right pages" and put all your right page content in it. The downside with this suggestion is that you have to create a seperate "left page layer" and "right page layer" for every page. It was then suggested that master pages can be used to create a "left page layer" and "right page layer" for every page, which would avoid the need to create those layers manually on each page. However, if you do this, you cannot put objects into the "left page layer" and "right page layer" that are not part of the master page. I gave an example of a "letters to editor" page to illustrate. If you create a headline called "letters from the editor" that only appears in on page 3 of the magazine (and no other page of the magazine), there is no way to put this headline in the "left page layer" that comes from the master page. So the ability to organise content into left and right layers, without having to create these layers manually for each page is not possible. Although @Catshill @Old Bruce suggestions are correct, they do not relate to the topic discussion of organising content into left and right layers without having to create a seperate left and right layer for every page. I do appreciate that this is a complicated issue, so it's understandable that it's got a bit muddle. And I do appreciate everyone who took the time to provide those suggestions!

+1 for transform again, for all Affinity Apps. A very useful and handy feature.

@haakoo Thanks! The document you provided doesn't solve the listed use case. Example: I am making a magazine. I want all my layers to be organized into left and right layers, so I create these on a master page (With Master-Left and Master-Right). I then apply to this to whole document, so every page has Master-Left and Master-right. Page 3 of the magazine is going to be the "Letter from the editor page". This is the only page that will have a letter from the editor in the whole magazine. I draw a headline titled "Letter from the editor". There's no way of putting this headline in the Master-left layer. With the document you provided (SimpleMpS.afpub) I would have to create a brand new master page just for the headline "Letter from the editor", which is not good workflow.

Hmmm... When I try to open your file it says "The file includes features from a later version of Affinity."

I just tried it: 1. I created a master page spread that has two layers: one named "Master-Left" (for the left page); one named "Master-right" (for the right page) 2. I applied this master page spread to all pages in the document. 3. I went to pages 2-3 of my document 4. I added a box to page 2 (that's only supposed to be on page 2 and nowhere else on this document). The box appeared on top of "Master-Left" layer. There didn’t seem to be anyway to put the box into the "Master-Left" layer. Just to recap the context of the conservation, as I think it's getting confused: I said I would like to see an improved layer panel interface that gave the option of displaying on the content that's on the right/left of a spread and not the whole spread, otherwise it ends up with a mess of layers. @haakoo suggested I can just use right and left layers, and I can use master pages to avoid having to create a left/right layer for every page. But that doesn't seem to be possible, as shown by steps 1-4 above. If it is possible, please let me know, as that would be a big help!

But what if I only want the text box to appear on page 2 and in the left layer of the master page, but not appear on all the other pages that use the master pages. Is that possible? If so that would be a big help!

But you can't add any objects to a master page from an Individual page. E.g. I set up left and right layers on the master page. I know go to pages 2-3 of my document. I want to draw a text box that will appear on the left master page layer. I can't do that. Instead, I'll have to create a new left/right layer for each page, which isn't fun on large documents. @carl123 In my usecase, the document stayed the same size, only the margins changed.

A shortcut to select all on a left/right page, isn't intended to be a magic cure all for the problems you described. It's just intended to cut down on using the mouse to select things, which will increase efficiency (as shortcuts are quicker than a mouse) and make Affinity Publisher more accessible to automation software. Yes, it won't fix things like overflowing text, but it will a big help in speeding up the process. It's a bit like style sheets. If you have to downsize a document from A4 to A5, having text style sheets is super handy for reducing font size. It won’t fix everything (you'll still have to go back and resize text frames), but it will a big help in speeding up the process. I think it's a only a novice user that would get confused. Also only a novice user would need such heavy-handed feedback that they are only displaying the layers on one of the pages. But if you hide the option to activate the switch in a menu, then a novice user would never come across these confusion problem. And they aren't really problems, as if the user flips to the next page, the "missing" layers will come back and they'll work out what's going on. To be honest, the way it works now, where you have a mass of left and right page layers is more confusing than the issues you have identified. It's worth noting that Indesign doesn't have the problem of having a mess of left and right layers in it's layer panel, because it only allows all pages to have the same layers. So maybe an idea would be to have an option in Preferences that allows Affinity to behave more like InDesign. You could have the left and right layer panels stacked on top of each other, to avoid taking extra width. And if it bothers a user, they can choose not to activate the option and so everything will remain as it is now. Problems with this: Has to be done for every page (Not fun for large documents). If you use a master page for this set up, then on the individual pages, you can't add objects to the right and left layers that aren't part of the master page. Now content is grouped within layers, so you have to hit the triangle icon in the layer to see content, which is fiddly.

I had an example the other day. The inner margins of my document changed, and so all the graphics on the left side needed shifting to the left by 5mm, while all the graphics on the right needed shifting to the right. Having to drag around the objects with the mouse got stale real fast. It was for over 200 pages too, so I had to use Automation Software like Keyboard Maestro to automate the process. In the end, I switched the document back to single pages, made the changes and then switched it back to facing pages. But it would be so much nicer if there wasn't the need to switch between single and facing pages, especially as switching between the two can cause the program to hang on large documents. I think just have a switch in the layers panel. When set to single pages, only the layers of the single page are shown. When set to spread, everything is shown. You could even have it that the layer palette splits into two for single-mode, so all the layers of the spread are shown, but they are clearly demarcated in the layer palette.

In Affinity Publisher, you can create speeds of left and right pages. When you click Select All, it selects everything on the entire spread. It would be super handy if there was an option to select everything on the left page only, or everything on the right page only. Of course, you can do this by dragging with the mouse, but a keyboard short cut would help with efficiency, accessibility and also make it easier to control Affinity with automation software (such as Keyboard Maestro) which allows for batch automation on multiple documents. It would be also super handy if the layers panel had an option to only show layers on the currently active page of a spread, as sometimes the layers panel can get very chaotic to navigate when it shows all the layers on both pages of a spread. But currently active, I mean if you select an object on the left page of a spread, then layers panel will only show the left page layers.

Hi I clicked on the Text Styles studio panel and then clicked on the little menu icon and then on "Import Styles..." It seems hit and miss. On some documents it imports fine. But on others, such as the one I attached, it goes screwy. If you open DESTINATION.afpub, delete all styles and then import them from source, they seem to go screwy. Thanks for your help!

Two issues: Issue 1: Size changes when importing style sheets I have a document that has the text style sheets set up exactly as I want them. (See attached SOURCE): This is how my text looks: I now import my style sheets into another document (See attached DESTINATION.afpub): Everything imports, but the font size/line size change and become ridiculous large: Issue 2 Duplicate styles: In addition, if I copy text between two documents that have style sheets, the styles sheets are duplicated with 1 added to them. E.g. Heading 3 becomes Heading 3 1 CTA body becomes CTA Body 1 SOURCE.afpub DESTINATION.afpub

Thanks, I didn’t realize it should be APu

+ 1 for Preflight. Even if it is just to show cut off text (i.e. text that has been cut off).

Is there a workaround for this? It's super annoying, as it's all too easy to spell words the British English way when they should be in American English. Thanks for any help.

Oh, I didn’t realize that it was Grammarly! I'll take clear to disable Grammarly before quoting as I know it's not very pleasant for users when the quotes go all funny. I take it that it should be okay to use Grammarly when not quoting?

I know it's weird when I ever click on quotes, it goes all funny and I can't even edit the post. I just click the Quote button so I am not sure why it goes all funny. I used loads of other forums (including those powered by Invision Community) and never have this problem. I use Chrome Version 78.0.3904.97 on Mac OS 10.14.6.

Very often, I'll save my work, experiment with something and decide that I don’t want it, so I can quickly hit revert to go back to the last version I was happy with (when I last saved). So it's a very useful tool, especially when doing several experiments in one-go. Yeah, you can hit undo multiple times, but then you don’t want to do undo the things you are happy with and it's easier just to hit revert and go back to the last save. I think that's for default settings to revert them back to the previous version.

Sweet! I didn’t know you could convert the shape into a text box, so it avoids the clutter. Having the option to set corners in text frame studio would be handy (as that way you can change the size of corners without having to draw a new box), but this still works. Thanks!

In aPub, how do you do the following to a text frame: Add a stroke to a text frame (when I use the FX option it adds a stroke to the text) Add inset spacing to a text frame Add rounded corners to a text frame. I know I can I draw a shape, do the above and then place the text on top, but that ends up with a lot of layer clutter. So it would be easier to edit the text frame directly if that's possible.

A small one but very useful! Please consider adding a revert option to the file menu command in all Affinity apps. The user can click on revert to re-open the file and discard all changes since the last save. Yes, there are other ways of doing this, but a file menu option is super handy!

Would it be great if Affinity had crop to selection? Absolutely yes. Is Affinity worthless without crop to selection? Absolutely no. Instead of drawing a selection box, just draw a crop box. It is a change to workflow, which does take some getting used to. But it does the exact same thing. Affinity is not a 1:1 recreation of Photoshop. It is its own program and it has its own ways of doing things. Some of these are much better, some of these are worse and some of these are just different. If you go in expecting Affinity to be exactly like Photoshop, you'll be disappointed. It is a new program that does take time to learn, but if you put in the time, you will be pleasantly surprised.

I've tried resetting both SM and PRAM, but still the same issue. My machine only has SSD. Here are the performance settings I am using:

I have an aPhoto document that has several images that I placed. These images have now been modified. When I open the document, I get a message saying the images have been modified: In aPub, when you get this message, you can go to a Link manager to update the modified images so they update the latest version. Is there any way to do that in aPhoto? If not, then what's the purpose of the message? Thanks!

I have set my language to US in Mac system preferences and also in Affinity Preferences. I have restarted the Mac. But it still only shows "English UK" in Affinitiy text styles.