updating placed PDF

[Wester]

Hi, I am having difficulty with updating placed pdfs, hopefully I can get some advice.

 

I export multi page pdfs from my CAD software for layouts. I place this pdf across multiple pages and switch it to the appropriate page for the layout eg. page 1,2,3 etc.

 

My problem is that when update this placed PDF, all the placed instances update to page 1, and do not keep their prior page setting. Is there a way to change this?

 

Thanks in advance for any help

 

 

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Wester.

Are you updating with a file of the same name, or a different name?

In my experience, if you keep the file name the same, then it can work as yu'd like. However, I think that you may need to Place the PDF multiple times originally. That is, do a new Place command for each document page where you want a PDF page. If you Place it once, and then duplicate the document pages (or if you copy the layer, and paste it onto a new document page)  you'll get the effect you're seeing.

[Wester]

Thanks Walt, it works as you have described.

However, this seems more like a bug than a feature? As in both instances the placed file refers to the same document.

Also the process of selecting the spread is exactly the same (you place the file choose the correct spread vs. importing a particular spread).

[walt.farrell]

40 minutes ago, Wester said:

However, this seems more like a bug than a feature? As in both instances the placed file refers to the same document.

Also the process of selecting the spread is exactly the same (you place the file choose the correct spread vs. importing a particular spread).

I'm not sure if I'd consider it a bug. In one case (duplicating the page, then on the new page changing the PDF page number) you're making a copy of an object, as opposed to creating a new object. With the copy, I could see Publisher synchronizing all the copies when the file is updated.

[Wester]

9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm not sure if I'd consider it a bug. In one case (duplicating the page, then on the new page changing the PDF page number) you're making a copy of an object, as opposed to creating a new object. With the copy, I could see Publisher synchronizing all the copies when the file is updated.

While that may be true from a programming perspective, I can't imagine any use case where someone would want to copy an object and change it to page 2, only to have it revert back to page 1 when updating the file.

Edited March 23, 2020 by Wester
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[walt.farrell]

Good point.