shoeller Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Publisher: Is it possible to set more than 2 pages in a row? For layouts in the architectural field, this is very often necessary to evaluate the presentation of several plans side by side. kind regards shoeller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Currently not possible, but much demanded. Dazmondo77 1 Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoeller Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 so sad! much demanded of course !!! Dazmondo77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Just out of interest, what is the result you are trying to achieve? In other words, why do you need more than two pages side-by-side? What are you going to do with the PDF (or other output)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoeller Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 We use the publisher to lay out final presentations, in this specific case there are 5 DIN A0 boards side by side.The only way up to now is to create a large page with the width of 5x DIN A0 and divide it into 5. When exporting, however, the content must be copied to a single DIN A0 format. In InDesign any number of pages can also be arranged side by side and not just one below the other. I hope Affinity will soon fix this problem. For Architects it is necessary to arrange several pages in a row! Dazmondo77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 12 minutes ago, shoeller said: in this specific case there are 5 DIN A0 boards side by side.The only way up to now is to create a large page with the width of 5x DIN A0 and divide it into 5. When exporting, however, the content must be copied to a single DIN A0 format I thought I understand what you meant until you said that you needed to for it all on a single A0 sheet for export. How are you fitting 5 A0 sheets onto 1? 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...
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shoeller Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 42 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: I thought I understand what you meant until you said that you needed to for it all on a single A0 sheet for export. How are you fitting 5 A0 sheets onto 1? One sheet wich is 5 A0 sheets width copy content on 5 single A0 sheets -> export and get single PDF files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 28 minutes ago, shoeller said: One sheet wich is 5 A0 sheets width copy content on 5 single A0 sheets -> export and get single PDF files. Why not use AD with the first 5×A0 artboard, then the 5 A0 artboards on it? Or just 5 A0 artboards against each other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted January 17, 2020 Staff Share Posted January 17, 2020 I think that Publisher's Designer Persona can also do what MikeW describes. The artboard tool is available on single page documents with no master page. Obviously this requires owning Affinity Designer as well as Publisher. Affinity Publisher does not yet support multiple pages per spread (beyond 2 pages I mean) MikeW 1 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Patrick Connor said: I think that Publisher's Designer Persona can also do what MikeW describes. The artboard tool is available on single page documents with no master page. Obviously this requires owning Affinity Designer as well as Publisher. Affinity Publisher does not yet support multiple pages per spread (beyond 2 pages I mean) But then, if I need AD to accomplish this in APub, why not use AD start-->finish? btw, I don't/didn't mean to take away from the (eventual) request of more than 2 pages being able to join side by side (but also note ID has a limit of 10 such pages). That said, I would usually do such a thing in AD anyway versus a layout application. Patrick Connor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted January 17, 2020 Staff Share Posted January 17, 2020 10 minutes ago, MikeW said: why not use AD start-->finish? Publisher has features not available in Designer. It depends on what is going on the (A0) pages. MikeW 1 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Yes. That's true. Or, one can edit in APub from AD if there are APub needed objects. In either case, make sure the artboards are exactly positioned to be truly against each other (using the transform panel) else the pages will be mis-sized in the export. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 2 hours ago, shoeller said: One sheet wich is 5 A0 sheets width copy content on 5 single A0 sheets -> export and get single PDF files. Then I'm not sure why they have to be adjoining each other originally. But you can do that with Artboards in Publisher if you also have Designer (as others have mentioned). If you can deal with them not being adjoining while you're setting it up, just use 5 individual pages, rather than facing pages. Or if you do use facing pages, choose the Area export option for "All Pages" when you export to PDF, rather than "All Spreads". Then you'll get single pages rather than double pages. 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...
MikeW Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Then I'm not sure why they have to be adjoining each other originally. But you can do that with Artboards in Publisher if you also have Designer (as others have mentioned). ... If design elements flow from one to another? Then again, artboards in Affinity applications have certain (fundamental) flaws in this regard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniels Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Another architect here looking for the ability to line up multiple pages in a row. It would be great if they add the feature. Dado22 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted March 24, 2020 Staff Share Posted March 24, 2020 @sniels Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums and thanks for adding your voice to this issue. Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Arohaina Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 I would like three pages side by side on Master A. The reason for this is quite simple; to make the cover for a book in one big spread. The middle page is the spine. The other two are the front cover and back cover. You can do this in Adobe Indesign very easily. It is such a useful facility. I look forward to seeing it being possible in Publisher as Affinity is my preferred software. Dado22 and Dazmondo77 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touraku Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Yes, I'd like to add my vote for this feature as well. I'm relatively new user, and working on several book projects, so I'm stuck on this at the moment. An easily editable middle page (the spine) to adjust according to printers specifications for paper thickness would be ideal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanjan Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 I just came across this very same need of having more than one page in a row or in a column. Any news on this feature? Dazmondo77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Laura Mo Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Still waiting for this option? I use this layout quite often in indesign and currently trying to start using APub as the go to instead. Would be useful for creating carousels for social media. I also occasionally use this multi-page style for larger takeaway docs (i.e. 3xA4 side by side, printed and folded to A4) and concertina style wedding invitations - I know these could be done with one larger page but takes so much longer setting up all the columns and guides for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oufti Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 On 12/8/2023 at 6:47 PM, Laura Mo said: I know these could be done with one larger page but takes so much longer setting up all the columns and guides for that. There are different tools in Affinity that can help you in doing that (Power Duplicate or Move / duplicate, Distributing/spacing objects,…) That way, you could then: Make each document a file, Export them to PDF as single pages, Prepare a large template with equally spaced frames to place each single page in, Place these as linked files in the template. So you can see dynamically how it looks when all "pages" (in fact the exported PDF) are placed side by side. Quote Affinity Suite 2.4 – Monterey 12.7.4 – MacBookPro 14" 2021 M1 Pro 16Go/1To I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Mo Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 15 hours ago, Oufti said: There are different tools in Affinity that can help you in doing that (Power Duplicate or Move / duplicate, Distributing/spacing objects,…) That way, you could then: Make each document a file, Export them to PDF as single pages, Prepare a large template with equally spaced frames to place each single page in, Place these as linked files in the template. So you can see dynamically how it looks when all "pages" (in fact the exported PDF) are placed side by side. This is another way of doing it, thanks. But it's still so many more steps than there needs to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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