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some glitches or dangers of that method I found: if changing visibility of thes 'global' masterpage layers on the individual page, one can unlink them from the visibility on the masterpage - usefull eg. for page numbers but bad, if you exactly wanted that ... could not figure out, how to restore that easily. and - Danger - when applying the masterpage again via drag and drop (e.g. as a useless try to restore the link), those objects (or individual layers) I subordinated to the masterpage layers are deleted. My only solution was, to drag them out of the masterpage-section, than apply the masterpage again, and than subordinate them again, this time without changing the visibility of the masterpage layers. this is, what I want to say with 'not intentional', but I consider, that I might only be used to 'some other software' and got to learn more about affinities ways .....

Thanks, @walt.farell - I think it is a very crude workaround actually that hard to understand and use that I can hardly believe that it is an intentional implementation, but it works. I describe, how I use it for my dual lingual thing: On my (one and only) masterpage I create two empty layers, text_E and text_D. Than I go to every page (only need to do this once, and If I had known this before, I would have created pages like this), right click the masterpage in the layers panel, click 'Edit Detached' and than move my Text elements (both switched on!) into the refering layers on the masterpage, so they are grouped underneath them. Than I finish editing detached (by clicking the 'finish' button in the red window banner, that appears, while editing the masterpage). If I than go to the masterpage, and switch on or off those Text layers there, this is applied to all pages, where I subordinated them into the masterpage elements. That layers, that are empty on the masterpage, but contain different elements on the individual pages, work like 'global layers'. So this works. This means: technical there is something like 'global layers', so it should be possible, to change, how these are implemented. I think a first step could be, to allow the subordinating of layers (that I would see as 'objects') into these previously empty layer groups on the masterpage (that I would see as 'layers'), without the need to do that 'edit detached' thing. I do not see a danger to change something accidentally than, as the changes even now do not effect back to the masterpage but only on that one page, making it 'globally structurable'. Actually I do not see the reason to have individual page layers at all in a layout app, there could be a kind of 'default' layer in the masterpage, where all these are subordinated (that could be 'unswitchable', If there is a need to prevent confusing accidental use) Rolf But yes, masterpages can do the job, it is only far from intentional, how to use it.

ok, I got the second issue solved myself, by turning down View Quality to 'Nearest Neighbour' and Retina Rendering to 'Low Quaility', in the prefernces. That did speed up the performance a lot. Sorry, could have found out before posting ....

Ah, that is pretty obvious , strange that I missed it and thanks you took the time to hint me, @garrettm30! I missed it, because it does not show up in the Preview Mode, where I would have expected it most, but I will customize my shortcuts, as you suggested, than I will have it there too, I guess. Thnx again:)

I am into my first bigger project with Affinity Publisher (after migrating from Adobe) and after a first quite great impression some issues or wishes shine up. At first, an essential one that is already discussed: global layers: But there is more. first: I am working on a book with a lot of illustrations and few text. With > 50 high res image images in my file performance becomes an issue. Currently I do edit text. I do not need to see a highres version of my px (which presumably slow down my not so underpeformed machine). a low res apearance would be fine. sorry, if I did not find the right checkbox, but to me it seems, there is no option to work with low res images? (btw. I would simply switch of a px-layer, if thes only were global layers ...) second is a 'slideshow like' view, which is: full spread in predefined scale and position, with clicking right arrow next page in exactly same scale and position. I used to use this excessivly to check my design in some othe app - searching for errors or checking rhythm .... so. please ...? thanks anyway. overall I really enjoy affinity. Rolf

I just read this thread (partly ...) and will not add something new, but emphasize, that a concept of 'global layers' is very much needed! I migrated from Adobe to Affinity lately and was quite happy with this most of the time. Now I am into my first bigger personal project with apub, have done a book with >100 pages with illustrations and text. I was a bit confused by the lack of layers (feels, like there are no layers but objects, that can be grouped), but thought, I could find a way to clean up later and just started (personal, mostly late-night project ....). Now I am nearly done with my rough version in german and want to quickly duplicate the german texts, replace text with my english versions and switch of the german text. I want to end up with an german + an english version of the same layout. Super simple and should be possible - but argh. If I do so, I have to switch on and off text on every page every time I switch language. Or did I miss a good way to do this? This is a two-click issue in ID or Corel or even illustrator. And even if I did not want the dual language thing, switching on and off or, more often, lock and make editable layers for all pages is an essential part of my multipage layout workflow, especially when it comes to refinement and cleaning up. I did not expect, that this is just not implemented, especially as many other features for structured workflow, like text styles, swatches, master pages etc. are quite well. I hope this will be fixed, otherwise publisher does not even do for my personal projects and this would be sad. p.s. it was said, that the problem might be, that the layer concept of image editing is used even in publisher and this should be compatible - well, even photoshop has a concept that would help: 'layer compositions', which store a set of layer attributes like on/off locked/editable in sets, each applicable in one click. This would help, especially if operating 'cross pages' and could be a publisher only feature, that does not appear in the other apps.