Thomas Geist Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Coming from InDesign I use Master Pages as a foundation but then customize them on the go. Unfortunately the "Edit Detached" mode cannot be invoked by a keyboard shortcut. Nor can it be closed by one (button "Finish"). Having a shortcut for this would be very helpful. Maybe it would be smart for us to start a topic where users can add their most wished for keyboard shortcuts. Adding shortcuts (or the possibility to assign them to more functions) would probably not cost Serif much resources, but it would improve productivity tremendously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 With an application like this one, I would argue that a list should be pointless. If a function exists in the application it should be possible to assign a shortcut to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 "Edit Detached" requires that you first select a Master Page layer. I'm not convinced that having a keyboard shortcut would be very helpful there given that you'll need a mouse click to select the layer first, anyway. And don't forget that a page could have multiple Masters applied, so it's not good enough to say that Publisher can infer which layer to select when the key is pressed. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 7 hours ago, walt.farrell said: a page could have multiple Masters applied True, but in a large number of cases it may only have one, so the shortcut could be effective only when on a page or master which has a single master applied to it, for example (and just beep if there is more than one and the user hasn't selected one). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 5 hours ago, walt.farrell said: you'll need a mouse click to select the layer first, anyway. No click: If one navigates through layers with the keyboard then a shortcut can be quite useful. However, I'd prefer to have global layers to completely avoid the need to detach for defining the layers hierarchy. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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