Ah ok, I was hoping I could do everything in Designer, I'm slowly starting to feel comfortable in this software, and to learn something else is easier said than done, I'm pretty new to this world and Designer is the first program of all the ones I tried that is intuitive and gives me hope that I can actually design some stuff. I thought it was great that I could design something then output it for publication, all in one app, finally.
Anyway, thanks for clearing this up. I will do it manually one artboard at a time, to me it's worth the extra time if it means I can continue working with just one application.
Can you take an extra minute to answer #4 above? I want to make the right decision before I edit all of the artboards.