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We use Designer for labels for our winery. The problem is that any label is a combination of layers from multiple layer hierarchies:
 
Winetype:Name:Year:Subalternative
 
Container:3L/750
 
Common Objects
 
The "common objects" is easy ... those are shared among all the wines so they are always on. The container is the problem. For each wine there are two labels, one for 750ml bottles and one for 3L bag-in-box. I now have to turn on and off layers in both hierarchies when printing theme. For a few wines it gets worse because the name of the wine has the be kerned differently depending on the container type (thus I have to drill down into the wine and switch between two different objects depending on the container).
 
What I'd love to do is to have saved export versions where I have gone in and turned on/off the appropriate layers. When I'm in the export persona I can select the correct "project" and not have to fiddle with the layers.
 
I understand that this may be a fringe use of Designer but there must be some others who also have common objects that are shared among some, but not all, "pages" managed within a single AffDes document.

We use Designer for labels for our winery. The problem is that any label is a combination of layers from multiple layer hierarchies:
 
Winetype:Name:Year:Subalternative
 
Container:3L/750
 
Common Objects
 
The "common objects" is easy ... those are shared among all the wines so they are always on. The container is the problem. For each wine there are two labels, one for 750ml bottles and one for 3L bag-in-box. I now have to turn on and off layers in both hierarchies when printing theme. For a few wines it gets worse because the name of the wine has the be kerned differently depending on the container type (thus I have to drill down into the wine and switch between two different objects depending on the container).
 
What I'd love to do is to have saved export versions where I have gone in and turned on/off the appropriate layers. When I'm in the export persona I can select the correct "project" and not have to fiddle with the layers.
 
I understand that this may be a fringe use of Designer but there must be some others who also have common objects that are shared among some, but not all, "pages" managed within a single AffDes document.

In terms of aligning textblocks when designing labels (which is my use for AffDes), being able to align the text to the bottom or center of the Text Frame instead of the only the top is critical. Now I have to do it visually ... sorry, that is 20th Century! I'm happy to hear it will come with AP, but would love to have it pushed out earlier if possible (tomorrow would not be too soon :-).

This will get done as soon I'm back working on snapping features.