[Artboard/Artboard Tool Bug, based on underlying Publisher code?]

@walt.farrell yea, it's definitely part of the same problem. But the Pages/Master Pages notification might be new..., thanks for linking me to the other article.

[Artboard/Artboard Tool Bug, based on underlying Publisher code?]

I opened a large PDF in Affinity Designer, everything looks fine, but then I tried to copy an Artboard from another doc to the current doc (which worked fine in 1.8) it only shows the selection box, this is after I re-saved as an .afdesign. I figured maybe it was landing on an existing Artboard so decided to create a new Artboard and just copy the contents, but the Artboard tool was suddenly locked and I got an error message saying "Artboard Tool - Artboards cannot be added to a document with multiple pages or master pages. This doesn't make sense for two reasons 1) Since the Affinity apps all share code, this seems like it would be an Affinity Publisher issue since you can't even create Pages/Master pages in Affinity Designer. 2) I can create new Artboards through duplication (Alt-Drag). It's not a memory issue because I have 32GB free. Can we please get a bug fix for this. Thank you.

[Affinity Designer 1.5 sneak peek: Constraints and Symbols]

Hi Hombre,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Pages will be implemented in a future version. It will be probably introduced with Affinity Publisher (for desktop publishing) available later this year as a public Beta if everything goes well.

 

About pages, I was hoping that you implemented it similarly to how Sketch has it (I'm thinking that's maybe what Hombre meant).  When I do UI design, I like to have a scratch page, then Mockups, and then an export page.  I know I could just duplicate artboards, but it's not the same, Pages allow me to also differentiate between different directions altogether without creating a new document.  Anyway just my two cents.

 

What guys are doing is great, simplifying other bloated software giants, while improving a lot.  I pray you do the same in Publisher (have you seen inDesign lately? Jeezus! it's daunting).  I'm looking for an alternate and will be happy to beta test later this year.