Blake_S

that doesn't really answer much - how do I update the style on all pages at once? just did that- text style on the actual pages did not change how do I select the text in a particular frame on all pages at once then? Lets suppose I have a 1000 (or 1000000, doesn't matter) page document, so changing on a page level is not an option.

I was very surprised to discover that layers in AP are page-specific. Does that mean if I want to re-order, lock or change layer visibility on a 100+ (or any number) page document, I need to do it on each page??

So I placed a text frame on a master page, then applied said master page to the pages I needed, and then manually populated text frames on each page. However, I can't seem to find a way to change text styles on all the frames at once - changing text style on the master page does absolutely nothing. Changing vertical alignment of a text box on a master page works, changing text box position/dimensions works, changing its text styles - doesn't.

First of all, the scale shows the main numbers in increments of 20, which is already quite wrong - it should be in the increments of 10 for default zoom level. To get to increments of 10, you need an extreme level of zoom, more than 300%, which is ridiculous. You can't really work at that zoom level. Second bug, the hashes between main numbers are marked wrong. On a normal ruler, between numbers 0 and 20, the longer hash marks would indicate 5, 10 and 15mm positions. This doesn't happen in Affinity. Instead it highlights numbers 4, 8, 12 and 16 with longer hash marks. This doesn't make any sense. As a result, if you need to see where numbers like 5, 10, or 15mm are located, you can't. They aren't marked. Here are many examples of how the correct mm ruler should look like And here is how mm ruler looks in Affinity Here is an example of Adobe Illustrator ruler at 200% zoom

Tried this and its indeed what I initially needed, thanks, will be using this method. Just tried it and it didn't work. I place a PDF in the new file with "passthrough mode", as "interpret" mode replaces all the missing fonts, then use Export function, PDF format, and in the settings choose "Embed Fonts: Text as Curves" Except, no text is actually being converted to curves. Exported PDF still has the text as actual text, with the same font as initial PDF embedded as subset.

On a placed PDF, settings for Art Box, Crop Box and Media box seem to be absent, only Trim Box and Bleed Box are available, and Bleed Box doesn't work correctly A combination of "passthrough" mode and "Bleed Box" results in a placed PDF being the wrong size - basically trim box content is taken and stretched over the bleed box size, meanwhile any content outside trim box is lost entirely. When selecting "interpret" mode and "Bleed Box", the bleed area is cut off, its just completely empty. At the moment, there doesn't seem to be any way to retain placed PDF content located outside of Trim Box, Designer cuts it all out or hides it. Placing PDFs in Publisher on the other hand works completely fine.

So if its because of font licensing, why can Photoshop and many other programs rasterise embedded fonts?

I used the same method 2nd time - "Align - space horizontally/vertically, uncheck "auto distribute", and then select the distance between objects" - only used vertical alignment when trying to duplicate a row. Your version works, but I already listed the disadvantages - if you want to change distance, need to redo everything, and there is no instant preview.

I already know of: 1) Power duplicate - requires to duplicate each object, and overall a very bad and slow way to duplicate to a grid, because if you need to change the spacing between objects, you need to redo everything from scratch. 2) Align - space horizontally/vertically, uncheck "auto distribute", and then select the distance between objects. This still requires manually duplicating each object, however it does allow to change distance between objects instantly. This works for one row or column, but then goes completely insane when I try to replicate said column/row using the same method into a grid - all objects end up at arbitrary distances and most fly over the edge of the document entirely. So I can't even make a grid using this method. Any other ideas? In Publisher if I remember correctly you could make a grid layout, adjust it by dragging, drop an object into a cell, and it is auto-replicated in all other cells.

It isn't required to have a font installed to rasterize any font in Photoshop though, which is what I resorted to doing. There are many other different programs which can rasterise fonts without having them installed - after all, the fonts needed to display text are embedded into the PDF itself. If I open the same file in Affinity Photo, and the export it, it will save with the wrong fonts - they are still replaced on export, even with "replace fonts" not selected when opening the PDF. Even if you choose "rasterise everything" in export settings. I know about placing a PDF to keep its appearance, but I needed specific characters rasterised to be able to easily copy them without linking a PDF everywhere.

When you open a PDF document with missing fonts, they are replaced instead of being rasterised. Even when "Replace missing fonts" is not selected, they are still replaced and this checkbox is ignored. Because of this I can't open any such files in Affinity software. The exact same thing happens with Affinity Photo. It also replaces fonts regardless of what you selected.