Petar Petrenko

In Artboards panel you see the list of all artboards. If none of them is selected you see nothing in the layers panel. If you select one of them you see only its objects in the layer panel, but on your screen you see all artboards and all objects you placed on them even the objects outside of the artboards (depending on your zoom level).

Comparing to Publisher where you have facing pages or multiple pages in a spread: If you select one page, the other page(s) are still visible and you see everything on these pages in the document window but only layer(s) of the selected page in the layers panel.

1. Of course, because they will exist in the Artboard panel only. 2. They would be visible as the pages are visible in Publisher.

The best way is to "Place" it, not with Copy/Paste.

List of Artboards, as the list of the pages in Publisher. And, when you click on certain artboard you can see its content in the Layers panel.

Thanks Thomaso, but this is too complicated. Some features in the apps are not so easy to understand how to use them.

This is just for testing purposes. I thought it would work as easy as you put an object over 3 page spread in Publisher, but obviously, it didn't. And then, there is another confusion with Artboards. They deserve their own panel. They are not layers, but objects (something like pages in Publisher) that can have their own layers.

Thank you for the answer, but can you offer me a solution? I can't make it parent layer.

Why Designer does not properly displays an object that spans on 2 or more artboards? The object is shown at the top of all layers only if I move it on the top of the Artboard3 layer, but when I want to reposition it -- only a part of it is shown. Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug? over 3 arts.afdesign

If you create covers, ads, trifolds and other kind of spreads, you can use not-facing pages, but if you have spreads inside a book -- the pages of the book must be facing pages and the spreads should be, too, combination of facing pages.

What about this idea: regardless the pages in the book are facing or not-facing they should be exported in PDF as single pages, but... if there are spread(s) they should be exported as spread(s), so the printer could get the idea how pages should be prepared for printing?

Yes, it shouldn't. It is a bug and Affinity will take care of it during this beta cycle.

A-ha... the same problem occurs with facing pages, too.

My recommendation to you is to use facing pages when working with spreads, because in that case you have all options you want: spreads and pages.

...and this is with no-spreads:

With facing pages.

Here is mine dialog box:

First PDF then print.

Choose "All Spreads" from "Area" when exporting PDF.

No, they are independent from the slug area.

No, it wouldn't. By adding 2 mm you will only make bleed area bigger, but the crop marks will be at the same position. Crop marks are positioned partly in the bleed area and in InDesign you can change their distance from the page so they can be positioned even outside bleed area.

I think it will be well suited for Designer.

It would be more intuitive (and much faster) if we can reposition pages by drag and drop instead with absolute values.

I just wonder, why manipulating pages isn't as easy as artboards in Designer?

It depends of the software how big page you can create within. I think Quark allows about 4m x 4m page so you can calculate how many pages (depending of the book size) you can put in a row.