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Here's a little demonstration of what I mean by 2-up. Does this help? Also attached are sample *.afdesign files, and a resulting rasterized PDF file from the two 5.5x6.5.afdesign documents that were placed in the 11x8.5.afdesign file. 5.5x8.5.afdesign 11x8.5 Rasterized PDF.pdf 11x8.5.afdesign

First off I want to say: thank you! I've been an graphic designer, photographer, and video producer for about 10 years as both in-house and freelance. I've never had this much hope that Adobe's expensive monopoly on the tools of our trade might be seriously challenged. I've been using Designer for just a few days now and it's clear to me already that Serif is serious about making professional tools. Truly excellent work so far! I anticipate using both Designer and Photo (and Publisher!) quite heavily. It's hard to explain how excited I am about this. :) Feature Request: Create or export n-up documents, e.g. place two copies of a 5.5" x 8.5" documents on an 8.5" x 11" page, or four copies of 4.25" x 5.5" page for export to PDF or direct printing. Current workflow (Adobe): With Illustrator, InDesign, et al. I can create original sized document (5.5" x 8.5"), then start a new document double that size (8.5" x 11"), link/place the original file, then either print directly or export to PDF for a client to print in-house. Current Affinity Design behavior: I tried this method with Designer, by placing a 5.5" x 8.5" *.afdesign file in an 8.5" x 11" document, however it appears to rasterize any placed documents on PDF export. This means files are larger and do not scale up if necessary. I tend to think this is a bug because on the Designer canvas, placed *.afdesign documents appear to remain vector. The workaround is to copy and paste the content from the original file into the new one and then duplicate that content across the document. I see that linked files (not just embedded) are on the roadmap, which is great. I assume this would be a big part of Affinity Publisher as well, once that's released. Even embedded files are fine, as long as the export doesn't get rasterized. That said an export option (or a part of the Export persona) with the ability to select how many you want on a page of a given size would be a killer feature. Thanks!