stoyaniliyn Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Hello, i just move from Illustrater to Affinity Designer, in Ai when i work on a document i have a lot of things save outside the artboard. Now when i open my Ai file in Affinity Designer i see only the objects inside the artboard but not outside the board? How i can do that? I am scared that i won't be able to see a lot of my work place outside the board. Thomahawk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 3, 2019 Staff Share Posted December 3, 2019 Hi stoyaniliyn, Welcome Affinity Forums There's no way to do it other than moving the objects in the pasteboard area in the original file (in Illustrator) to an artboard. Affinity apps are only able to access the PDF stream included in the Ai file not the actual Ai closed/private data and this PDF stream doesn't include the objects placed in the pasteboard area. stoyaniliyn 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Other than for imported Ai files from the View menu, select View Mode and then select Clip to Canvas, it's a toggle menu entry. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 3, 2019 Staff Share Posted December 3, 2019 v_kyr, That option is not available for documents that use artboards (greyed out), only for regular non-artboard based documents. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 1 minute ago, MEB said: v_kyr, That option is not available for documents that use artboards (greyed out), only for regular non-artboard based documents. You are right, just checked the online help for that and realized that too. - Why that limitation to none artboards, it should be enhanced to show for those too. stoyaniliyn and Thomahawk 2 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 - stoyaniliyn 1 Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoyaniliyn Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 This mean i am gone need to pay one extra month subscription to Adobe so i can make my artbords bigger and cover all my work place outside the boards ;-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 3, 2019 Staff Share Posted December 3, 2019 26 minutes ago, v_kyr said: You are right, just checked the online help for that and realized that too. - Why that limitation to none artboards, it should be enhanced to show for those too. There's no limitation here - you can see the contents of the pasteboard with artboard based documents by default - just drag an object from an artboard to the pasteboard - you should still be able to see it there. It's only optional for non-artboard (regular) based documents. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoyaniliyn Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 no i never did, gone check it out now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 3, 2019 Staff Share Posted December 3, 2019 30 minutes ago, haakoo said: What if one would manual resize the artboard?would that bring them back in view? One could use a very big artboard where the AI artboard is a child artboard(layer) This will not work. Objects placed in the pasteboard area in Illustrator are not included in the PDF stream Designer reads from the Ai file so there's no objects to display/show. Move Along People 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoyaniliyn Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 so the only solution is to go back to Ai and make sure the objects outside the board are place inside ? Is there any other application where i can open my files only to trigger this option? Or the only way is to pay one extra month to Adobe so i can edit all my boards and make them bigger so they can cover all files outside the visible area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 2 hours ago, MEB said: There's no limitation here - you can see the contents of the pasteboard with artboard based documents by default - just drag an object from an artboard to the pasteboard - you should still be able to see it there. It's only optional for non-artboard (regular) based documents. I see, as default for Artboards those are clipped layers, when unclipped they can be overlapped. Thomahawk and stoyaniliyn 2 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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