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In the attached file, I have stacked the artboards 1-6 on top of each other. In Publisher, I choose which artboard to show. It is working, although I do sometimes have to "refresh" them in Publisher (Artboard 1 in particular seems to need this). I am interested to know how I can have the artboards side by side in Designer and still be able to select which artboard in Publisher. LSD 707 - Isovists.afdesign

Is there a way to have the artboards side by side in Designer and have them show in Publisher. Against the clock at the moment, so I stacked all my artboards on top of each other in Designer. If I don't stack them, I can select the different artboards in Publisher, but they appear blank in Publisher.

Funny, the talk about IDML and shifting specs. Adobe specifically state that, amongst other things, IDML allows backward compatibility with earlier InDesign versions. IDML, is, as far as I understand the spec, the "DXF" exchange format for this sort of stuff. Honestly, if the exchange is not 100% perfect, but reduces the work load back in InDesign to fixing things like column spans. I am in the similar position of having to use InDesign due to being in a team, but I effing hate InDesign, for the simple reason of being unable to scroll with mouse wheel, completely inconsistent with the rest of their suite. Bloody stupid imo and where Affinity does shine! Same interface across all 3 apps. To me, compared to the heavy lifting the Affinity Programmers have done to write these three amazing products, writing an IDML exporter should surely be a relatively trivial task? Surely? I mean writing a PSD exporter had to be much harder than IDML which is clearly defined?

I just wonder now, with the advent of Win 11, if we will not start to see an increase in the Linux desktop base. I have a bunch of machines, that I use/support. One of which is a reasonable MSI gs73vr 6rf machine. And guess what, it does not meet the Win 11 requirements! I am sure that I am not the only one that M$ is going to drive away. Really am not in a position to replace any of my machines and I am sure I am not unique in this regard. And with their new hardware requirements, pirated Win 11 is not really going to be a "thing" on aging machines. For the longest time, one of the biggest impediments to migrating to Linux, was the absence of a "real CAD" package. Now with Draftsight and Ares Commander Linux is certainly more viable for me. Let's face it though, you can function on Linux with Scribus, Inkscape and GIMP/Krita. But none of them really have the UI that Affinity/Adobe have. Thus having a decent suite like Affinity following would just be awesome. Just my thoughts following the release of Win 11

Thank you @nwhit simple and clear explanation on how to solve this. Pity there is not a clear warning when placing, and well I was obviously looking in the wrong place for a solution till I found this thread.

Have had no issues with Edge and Win 10 downloading the latest Affinity updates (Photo, Publisher, and Designer) and all worked fine on the upgrade. If you're on a non-updated Win 10 you might still be using "Old Edge" which was not great. Latest Edge is for intents and purposes Chrome. So there should be no benefit switching. Could also try something like FreeDownloadManager - gives a more robust download environment if browsers are failing. Good luck

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Please. Would make life a lot easier

Please. Have custom swatches on desktop glaring omission on iPad

Not regretting my purchase at all. I have sketchbook and paintstorm studio for when I need ruled lines. But I would love to see rulers like Morpholio Trace (iPad only) and their perspective grid although having n-point perspective would blow everything out the water. N-point perspectives cause not everything in the scene is neatly arranged to the same vanishing points. currently working on some stuff where this would have already saved me hours bouncing between apps loving Designer on iPad more and more, and rulers/perspective grids would allow me to pretty much drop everything else. Though would not object if this landed on desktop too

Thank you both. Have Recently begun using the iOS version. Learning taps and double taps is a whole new experience and having to unlearn right click

I think this is the problem we face, we have been doing things a certain way using PS and ACAD, now the new kid on the block is forcing us to reconsider how we work. The current behaviour has been quite useful to me when we have received PDFs from consultants without CAD files. Being able to access the vectors had allowed me to save to SVG and then use Inkscape to DXF (yes would love DXF export in Affinity of course) so I do not want this to go away. I can only imagine we will have to be patient with the developers, there is a lot of stuff we'd love to have, yet the software is still quite young. Just hope the devs can grow the software fast enough for us impatient users

Hi Tom Yes have the same problem here, I have suggested an "Open As" feature so that we could elect to have the PDF come in as a Raster rather than a vector. What I have done as a work-around in the meantime is open with Designer and flatten/rasterise the image first. At least I can then continue working as I did with Photoshop, or colouring & "hand drawing" with my Wacom in Clipstudio. For some reason I find that Designer deals with the complex vector layers from AutoCAD far better than Photo does. I have similar issues to you (having read a couple of your posts now) in that the firm I work for uses the Architect PDF Base (or CAD) to generate a plan that we then hand draw our soft landscaping elements. I disposed of Photoshop for Affinity, though I use either Sketchbook or Clipstudio Paint for this aspect of the work, and neither programme opens PDF directly. An alternative might be to open with GIMP or similar (eg Irfanview's PDF plugin) just to get a flat image. Not ideal but I am not adverse to using multiple softwares if that is needed to get my work done.

Would it be possible to select how Photo/Designer open PDF files? I often use PDF Plots from Autocad as a base for a drawing that will then be rendered digitally (hand/tablet drawn landscape plans over an architect's base drawing). In the dreaded photoshop the PDF will open as a raster image with transparent background and is quite quick to get going. Affinity's intelligent opening of these same PDFS and recognizing their vector content can actually be a bit of a bind in this instance as I then have to go and group layers and such to separate the printed data from what I am going to add. In many instances the current behaviour is beneficial and should be kept (ie DTP usage), but perhaps a flag on file import/open to rasterize on import could be implemented? (I have found sometimes I need to use designer to "flatten" the image as photo does not want to do a whole stack of layers).