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@bbrother I'd thought about using the pen tool, but didn't realize it would be so simple to use for selections in AP, no need to switch to AD. This is great! I did some research on my lasso tool issue. Here's what I came up with. I suspect it is a software issue. With Polygonal always set to New. "Add" might cause issues. Hardware acceleration on in settings>performance may cause issues. Antialias may cause issues. Whatever I did it's working much better now.

Freehand Lasso Polygonal

polygonal selection tool

In Affinity photo 2 why are my selections keep closing in the middle of selecting especially with the straight edge selection tool?

I read Ash's original post, followed it—zilch. It was your video that showed me—guess I'm a visual person ; )

@PaulEC This morning I had to redo a couple lines of the pdf. In Apub I used your technique and it took me 15 minutes as opposed to the 4 hours I spent yesterday placing pdf pages 1 by 1. So happy 😺

@PaulEC you're my hero!!!! The problem was that I saw the > next to the page # where you can select individual pages. I totally missed the > next to the pdf thumbnail which you can open and show all page thumbnails, which was where I was able to select all page thumbnails. With the layer selected, but not picture frame, I clicked the layer and aimed for the center of the frame. Zap 38 pages—YIPPEE. Anyway to be able to tap the top left of the layer page instead of the center?

@PaulEC Could someone put up a screenshot of what the place panel looks like with multiple pdf pages selected, or a movie showing how you did it?

I tried with picture frame and without. No difference. Wish I could share doc, unfortunately it's a gov doc, requiring regular Gemini-ing to figure out what they're talking about. Still I just completed doing place 38 times. Despite using snap and red & green lines place individual pages rarely align the page exactly, so I kept having to hit aligns. The reason i have to do this: On my old imac I have Acrobat X v10 in which I made most of the pdf changes. After airdrop-ing to mini-mac, some pdf changes were made as comments, rather than editing text with Acrobat tool. PDF comments are invisible in APub. But when exporting from Apub as a pdfs and opening pdfs in free Acrobat Reader comments suddenly showed and I had to delete them in Reader. The last imported pdf page is horizontal. Isn't here a way to have Apub make that page only horizontal? Thanks for not leaving me alone with this : )

In the place panel using cmd-a or (shift select first and last page) I get whatever the 2nd page I click on is. Shift pg 1 then pg 38, I get page 38, not 1-38. @Ash"Do that then hit cmd-a (or shift select first and last page to select all the pages you want to place) and then hit the picture frame."

I don't want the pdf editable which is why I didn't open the pdf with APub. I can place 1 pdf page at a time. But no way to keep the place panel open or Command A to select all pdf pages. Gemini instructions below don't work. Go to File > Place (or use the Place Tool). Navigate to your multi-page PDF file and select it. Click Open. The "Place Panel" will appear. This panel lists the PDF you've selected. Initially, you might just see the PDF filename. Click on the PDF's filename within the Place panel to expand it and reveal all the individual pages within that PDF. Select the pages you want to autoflow: To select all pages, you can use Command (⌘) + A (on Mac) while the Place panel is active. Or, click the first page, hold Shift, and click the last page to select a range of adjacent pages. To select non-adjacent pages, hold Command (⌘) and click on each desired page. Initiate Auto-flow: Affinity Publisher will then automatically place the selected PDF pages onto your document, creating new pages as necessary to accommodate all the selected PDF pages. With the desired PDF pages selected in the Place panel, click once on your document page where you want the first PDF page to be placed. Alternatively, click and drag on your document page to define the size and position of the first placed PDF page. Key things to note in Affinity Publisher 2's autoflow: Place Panel is central: Unlike InDesign's transient loaded cursor, Affinity Publisher's Place panel remains open (if you've selected multiple items) until all selected items are placed or you close it.

Why can't I place all pages in a 38 pdf in Affinity Publisher 2? After clicking Control D (my place shortcut) and selecting my 38 page pdf, the place panel opens. I click the side triangle and all pages show. But when I click the first page the scroll down and shift click page 38 only one page, page 38 shows. Help please.

Whole pixels use to be the bain of my life ; ) Thanks for the reminder.

@RE4LLYYour information is a MasterClass in Artboards. Wow! @PšendaThe circle is a symbol and has a 3D & Bevel FX, but isn't rotated and is within black rectangle area. How do I align to grid?

@RE4LLYWhen I did Insert Artboard, got extra checkerboard space around my layer elements? I'm guessing I can drag the checkerboard to the black rectangle layer with the arrow key, but why was it added? Your instructions taught me a lot—thank you.