jackamus

Thanks for that! I couldn't see the trees from the wood" OK I've ben back and inserted the correct link. If you look at the video on the link you will see that I look just like my abattoir!

People seem to be reacting to wrong link! Click on the photo in my second message.

Oops I sent the wrong link!

I've been using AD since it was first published and been a regular participant in this forum. I have used AD to create the calendar shown below for a crowd funding project. The calendar feature 12 my paintings. here is a link.

Duplicating would appear to be the best choice for me. I have done this before but by accident! I started out with a load of pdf pages and wanted to add more using AD. I was able to make the existing pdf pages into artboards and then as I progressed with more pages I 'copied' a previous page and deleted its content and added new content also I added a page number. When I finished my work space contained 40 artboards corresponding to the layers. If I needed to edit one page I just zoomed in to it and edit it. This may not have been the most efficient way to have done this but I did get a good result. However with the above advice I could do it again only more efficiently.

I want to create a multi-page document in AD. How do I create a master artboard so that I can use a layer for each artboard page?

I think I will find it easier to manually adjust the printer until I'm happy with the printed image compared to the monitor. I have a calibration colour chart on file so I will use that for comparing the adjustments although a colour photo might be easier to evaluate.

Just seen it!

I'm not very good at this sort of thing so this is how I would like to see it work. Everything I do is either viewed on the computer or I want to print it on my inkjet printer or send the file to a commercial printer. To keep it simple what is the best way for me to set up my computer so that what I print resembles what I see on the screen? I do have a customised colour profile for my Epson printer that I use in Phtoshop but even that seems to have gone awry. This may be due to the inks I use as I have swapped different kinds I'm currently printing a full colour calendar sample for subsequent commercial printing but in order to get the colour right I'm manually adjusting the ink on my printer. I had to reduce the magenta from the default '0' to -16 (-24 is the min) to reduce the redness of the image. Perhaps someone could me more specific advice?

Thanks for this and I'm happy to check it out but how do I get to it from AD?

Is there a way to choose it or any other profile like in PhotoShop?

I have a custom colour profile that I use with PhotoShop. How do I use it with AD when I print?

I sat here for a few minutes sure that I could come back with a witty reply but I can't cos I've got a headache!

...and you haven't helped either!

This has given me a headache and I haven't one of those for about 40 years!

LOL! I got bored after 1!

Is there a way to colour a new blank page without drawing a colour filled rectangle?

I've had 3 crashes in the last month all have been sent to Affinity. All I was doing was closing down files prior to closing down AD. I do this every night but this was the only time it crashed in doing it. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Just a thought - but I imagine it must be very difficult for users to be able to reproduce a crash. The onlt time I was able to do that was when I used to use DrawPlus.

Crash File attached. I was just closing down files before quitting AD when it crashed. Affinity Designer_2019-11-13-175616_Jacks-Mac-mini.crash

Thanks but I thing Callum's idea is the easiest.

Thanks Callum.

How do I drag a copy of a group and then undo the previous changes to the original group without changing the copy of the group?

OK. I was just trying to figure out how it was originally locked into a layer.

That's good. If I lock a group in a layer and send it to Affinity then nobody will be able to ungroup it or edit it?

That's OK you got it right! Presumably I can delete the existing protractors and replace them with these new ones that you sent and add to my Asset list.