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I've switched from AI to Affinity Designer, and I'm overall very happy with it. The one fly in the ointment, however, is that there's no way to automatically save a whole image as a tiled, multi-page PDF. Slices are great, but they seem more useful when you just want to excerpt a small portion of a file - having to draw out page-sized slice after page-sized slice is laborious and fussy and leaves room for error, and then there's the issue of bleed ... I have a small business selling sewing patterns for historical costume, so this is something I do a lot. (All my patterns are digital and print-at-home.) It would make things enormously easier if I could just go Export -> PDF -> letter/A4. Thank you for considering this!

The trouble is, as I understand it, that I have to draw out the full pattern and then add artboxes in underneath it, because you can't draw over multiple artboards at once. But I supposed I could create an artbox in a new document, then paste it into the one where I've drawn the pattern?

I'm transitioning into using Designer to make sewing patterns for sale on Etsy as print-at-home downloads, and I've tried both the multiple artboard and slice methods. They seem equally good to me, but is there a way to generate artboards and slices or to copy from previously drawn ones? It's a bit annoying to have to carefully draw out 8.5x11 and 8.25x11.75 boxes (depending on the paper size I'm using), plus, if I'm doing a larger pattern I'm going to have to make quite a few. (Related question - I've seen Publisher suggested as a way to split one large graphic into pages, but it's not at all clear to me how that works. I'm trying to figure out the most consistent way to make and cut up my patterns - since I want them to be in standard paper sizes, it seems like it could be the best solution?)

Oh my gosh, thank you so much! This has completely fixed everything! Yes, it's an import from a Word doc. Well, it's an odt that I turn into a docx so that Publisher can see it in the first place ... there's a lot going on.

Well, I can tell you that the paragraph style didn't get applied to all the text! I was sure it did, but I did a ctrl + A and then hit my "body" style again, and it did fix the indents issue. Thank you! However, there is still a space between the paragraphs. I don't think it's a line break, as when I search for line breaks I get nothing. When I search for a paragraph break, I get a lot of "<NBSP>[paragraph]" - see attached pics. Searching for that or for "[space][paragraph symbol]" gives me nothing, though. I've also attached a shot of my spacing. (Does the "only between paragraphs" play a part in this? There's no "never" option that I can see.)

Unfortunately, this only turns up a couple of instances when I do the search. I've also tried with Line Break and get nothing. Which is very confusing because ... then what is breaking the paragraphs?

I am trying to typeset documents that were written for the web, and so have a single space between non-first-line-indented paragraphs. The spaces between paragraphs are all an actual tap of the "enter" key, not made via paragraph formatting (unfortunately): is there a way to strip these out automatically? On a related note, I am finding that when I set these documents to my body style, the first-line indent is not applied automatically to each paragraph. It only appears when I manually put the cursor at the top of the paragraph, backspace all the way back to the previous paragraph, and then hit "enter" again. Likewise, is there something I can do so that I don't have to fix this instance by instance throughout every document?