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Thank you GarryP, that is very helpful. I think overall the 'locking' abilities, and especially the flexibility for locking individual elements or single elements within groups on artboards, in AD is far superior to any graphics programme I have worked with. I am new to Affinity but not other programs and CAD. My initial question simply highlights that within this incredible amount of complexity (which I don't want Affinity to change because I use it as well in other projects😀), there is also place for a very general 'locking' feature for those situations that require an overall safeguard at the highest level to prevent editing. I could generalise it like this....."After all the very very detailed work is done, it would be great to have '1-check box' approach that enables nothing to be edited on Artboard-X". Sort of a a kill-switch to avoid unrecognisable mistakes that can/do occur with user error. The observation that this is such a popular topic, might be a huge clue to encourage programmers to add such a general feature, yet without destroying or deflecting attention away from all the other excellent abilities of AD artboard design. Thank you again.... and now I will go and start the 1600+ clicks it will take to lock, both the many individual and grouped elements, on about 109 artboards😂...

I apologise for disturbing you all on a topic that has been mentioned many times. It was not my intention to appear so ill-informed, initially I did a general search for 'lock' but the results were basically zero, but rephrasing it your way and searching for 'locking' instead did bring up something at least. I did do a search for lock in the manual under artboards but nothing came up and I thought that odd. Anyway, I do understand how the locking works now and I can envisage the work-arounds needed to achieve what I want to do; but they are extremely cumbersome for larger projects such as mine (which is not a usual user workflow, I understand). Thank you

Hallo, I made the incorrect assumption that using the 'lock' function on individual artboards would actually render it's contents locked and prevent them from being changed in any way. With the current set up it appears that the artboard itself can be locked, however, all its specific contents still remain editable. I can imagine there are many uses where this is helpful. Since I have many artboards (30 to 60 often) each with up to 10 to 30 individual 'child' layers on each, is there a quick way to really lock them. In my workflow, selecting individual content-layers under each artboard is going to take me a loooooong time, and then unlocking them will be even less fun. This can be done with one click in Ai at the first highest level of the individual artboard. Surely there is a way to enable locking to work in various ways. Is this intentional? Is there a way to securely lock the contents of an artboard at the same time as locking the actual artboard- have I missed something? Thank you Casio

Hi, I know this is now a long/older topic, however, I'm adding a message here that relates to the very original request to be able to 'not show artboad titles'. For those of us who work with multiple artboards that are positioned right next to each other (i.e. no space between them), having an option to simply not show artboard titles would be GREAT. I often work on a grid of ~30 to 60 x A4-sized artboards and their titles get in the way especially when working in a full zoomed-out view (an overview of all boards is very important for my large-format work). I shorten the titles as much as I can, but I still need them to remain relevant for file naming and understanding my workflow. Did this 'not show artboard titles' eventuate? Thank you, Casio

Excellent, thank you MEB for confirming that. Another question, if I may. When converting multiple artboards to a multipage PDF, I notice that the last artboard created is however, always the first page in the PDF. Can this order be reversed or manipulated in some way? Or for my situation described above, do I need to reorder my 30 artboards in the layers panel so that my Artboard Nr.1 (in the top left-hand corner of the series) is at the bottom of the layers. etc etc Thanks in advance, Casio

Hallo, Am I correct in thinking that 'Edit all Layer's button will sort of turn off the 'automatic' allocation/assigning of an element to the artboard it is placed on top of. This would be immediately helpful in situations that I work with regularly, for example; I work with about 30 x A4 artboards placed together and then I place a large graphic over the top so that my output can be saved as a tiled PDF with multiple pages. This works if I make sure that the graphic is placed at the top most layer- and importantly not touched after positioning- just before I make the tiled PDF. But often I do need to reposition or even modify the graphic (itself a AD svg or PDF) and of course it automatically attaches to an artboard and most of the graphic disappears from view (I know it's still 'there', because it only shows on the artboard it has attached itself onto, even though it is larger than that single artboard). Many thanks in advance, Casio

Hallo, I am seeking help with how to convert/make a large (almost A0-sized) vector line graphic into a PDF file that contains the image spread over individual tiled pages (either A4 or Letter). The file needs to be sent to a person who has limited printing abilities/option and has had no success printing with Adobe Reader using their automatic 'Tile all pages' feature (and they don't have graphics software to use). Hence I am trying to help them by providing the PDF document with the tiling already done. I thought I had found a tutorial on this topic last year, by chance, but I didn't save the link. Can anyone help? Many thanks in advance Jenni

Yes! The column width was set to zero and changing making it a larger quantity made a change. Obviously, somehow I altered it unknowingly! Which begs the question, is there a (dare I say 'normal') value that the width should remain at, or will it self regulate from now on because it is +0? Thank you all so much for the help I am a beginner, but welcoming the new knowledge. Jen

here is a copy of the file that is behaving badly 😂 Vertical text problem2.afpub

Thank you Dominik. I understand this might not be 'true' vertical text. When I make a text box (which appears about 5cm wide with no column formatting or anything else) in Publisher and begin typing words, then each letter immediately sits below the previous one. I have no idea what feature(s) I've changed in this file to make it do this. I am still learning what 'options' in affinity do what. I will try my best to get you more information. Jen

Somehow I have managed to turn on a feature that makes the text within text boxes to be written in a vertical format only. How do I turn this feature off and return the text to 'normal'. I have no knowledge of turning on vertical text in the first place. Learning! Many thanks in advance Jen

Hi Garry, that is fantastic and so quick😀. I was almost there as I was fiddling about with Document set-up and yes now I can see the Spread Set-up. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. So much to learn- so much fun Thank you

Hallo, My question relates to how can the page's px dimensions of an existing Publisher file be changed? I have a perfectly working publisher file containing 5 completed pages, of a custom square page size of 1500px by 1500px. I would like to convert this existing file into two different page size versions for separate uses, one 750px by 750px and the second 750px by1000px. Is there an easy way to do this (I am new to Affinity and still learning the program) or do I have to recreate new files with the new px dimensions that I need. Many thanks in advance Casio