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@LionelD Thanks! I happy to report that this issue has been fixed. The solution is, rather than placing all printable elements inside the artboards, you should draw them above the artboards in the layer stack. Then everything prints out on all pages. I think this is what you've done in your file, Lionel. Not sure if Affinity has fixed this, or if I simply hadn't tried this approach before! Either way, it's very easy to do now 😃

That's excellent! Thank you for sharing, KPM.

Thomaso, I think you're talking about something different. We're discussing the Lock Children checkbox that is found at the far right of the Contextual Toolbar. It most definitely affects only the selected layer.

Very happy to help! It's actually my partner who is making the patterns, and she hasn't made the full transition to AD yet. So I don’t think I have an answer for measuring a curve. The only thing I can think of is setting the view to actual size and measuring with a real ruler, or printing it out and measuring on the paper. Probably not ideal solutions though…

Ah, maybe that's the issue I was also having and I didn’t realize it It seems that objects will automatically snap into an artboard … unless you switch on the Edit All Layers button at the bottom left of the Layers panel. I think that will solve the issue.

+1 on not having the panels buried in the View menu, Either a Toolbar button or right-clicking on the Toolbar to access a Studio menu would do it for me..

I think the artboards issue has been resolved. I did a quick trial exporting an image over multiple artboards, and it worked. There's also now at least one online tutorial about pattern making with AD: https://haberdasherbee.co.uk/blog/designing-sewing-patterns-in-affinity-designer/ In order for objects to print on all pages when you generate the PDF, you need to make sure that they are placed above all the artboards in the layer panel. See the attached screenshot. Placing objects inside a specific artboard will restrict them to that artboard/page on export. Thanks for fixing this, Serif!

+1 for Object Styles that behave like Text Styles

Thanks for sharing your cool workarounds, Matthew and loukash!

Thanks for the workaround! I have to say that I've been using page layout apps for 20 years, and I don’t think I ever wanted text to follow the shape of a rounded rectangle. A circle, yes, A triangle, yes. But never a rounded rectangle. A rounded rectangle is first and foremost a rectangle, and from my perspective having text follow the rounded corners should be an option, not the default behavior. InDesign will do this, but not perfectly. You have to inset text more than the corner radius in order to avoid a rounded text margin. It's usually not a problem, but it occasionally annoys. So Serif, you have the chance to one-up Adobe here

You beat me to it, MEB! And you didn’t upload a stupidly ginormous image like me. A tip of the hat to you

Yes, but the whole thing breaks down when the corners are only very slightly rounded. In my example below, I want all the text to be left-aligned. But because of that corner, it's impossible to achieve – even with the huge amount of margin I've added around the text.

Wow, that was fast. And easy 😊 Thanks, Walt and MEB!

So then, at the moment we need to use a text frame on top of a rounded rectangle if we want full control over the indents? That's just not right in a professional page layout app.

When I use the suggested workaround, the rounded corner appears to indent the first line of text. When I remove the rounded corners, the indent goes away. Anyone else having this problem? +1 for rounded corners on text frames and full control over the indents.

+1 on the ability to easily add email links

Thanks, prophet and thomaso, for sharing your opinions. I'm still new to Publisher, so I'm not going to dig in anymore. Since I'm after something like InDesign's behavior at the moment, perhaps the solution is to avoid picture frames altogether and use vector crops instead, as prophet suggests. Then I can branch out and explore the Picture Frame option.

I'm coming over from InDesign, which has (unusually for Adobe) a very simple, intuitive way of handling images inside of frames. Children are locked by default, resizing a frame therefore crops the image, and I can select the image itself by clicking on the circular area in the center. Clicking on the image, but outside the circular area, allows me to move the image and frame together (effectively temporarily unlocking the child), and holding down a modifier key lets me resize image and frame together. Cropping images and moving frames are absolutely basic functions in page layout, and there are way too many clicks needed in Affinity's current setup.

I disagree. That’s how an image should behave. An image inside of a frame is something else.

Actually, shouldn't a Picture Frame automatically have locked children? Is it me, or does that seem like it should be the default?

Another +1 for a "Lock Children" shortcut

Thanks Garry! That's a great workaround for 100% rounded corners. Still hoping for an option to specify the corner radius.

I love how InDesign's Paragraph Border and Paragraph Fill functions are neatly merged into the Decorations panel in Publisher. I'm just missing the ability to add rounded corners to the fill decorations. Any chance that might be added in the future?

Adding my vote for this feature. Span/Split columns is hugely useful.

+1. I've also recently had the need for Grey Gamma 1.8