LukeBronsky

Hi @Hangman, could you please expand on this or point me to where could I find more informations about this? I am not sure how do you mean it since there can be big elements spanning through multiple artboards (since one artboard represents one A4).

Wow that is super cool, I just tried it on one of my files and it really seems to be working. Thank you for this!

Wow that sounds wonderful! Can you just point me to the settings you use for exporting artboards and then on I Love PDF? I tried to recreate what you wrote but with no success concerning the merged layers...

@lacerto Do you know any other way around it except the one mentioned earlier?

Hi @Hangman, I have no idea. The Illustrator file was made by external freelancer. And since Designer suits most of my needs and costs fraction of CC, I was hesitant to get in to the whole (mad) Adobe CC sub.... I am myself unsure if it is bug or feature. I suspected it was because of the separate artboards when exporting. Maybe it is possible to draw the pattern in Designer and then move it to Publisher for final composing on printable A4 size sheets and it would then make the layers work as they should?

Hello. Thank you, that is a brilliant idea. Bit tedious for multiple layers and pages but it gets the job done. Anyway I would welcome this to be build in to the Designer itself, it would save some trouble. Thank you again.

Hello. I encountered very specific problem I can't find solution to. I am creating sewing cutting patterns. And I wanted to export the file with layers so people can print only the size they are interested in. It should work like this - you have pattern with multiple sizes and in layers you can choose which one you want to see/print. This was created and exported in Illustrator and works as expected. But when I try to export the same thing in AD, the layers on multiple pages are not linked - meaning you'd have to select the visible layer for every page of the document separately. You can see when I am in the middle of two pages I see all the layers of every page but it should be just one layers for all twenty something pages of the document. I also created super simple documents simulating my issue since I am not able to upload the screenshotted document itself. Is there any setting to make the "layers linked" across all the pages or is it something than can not be done in AD? Thank for any kind of help. A4 .pdf A4 Print Template.afdesign