Create a new document with more than 1 artboard

[PepGold]

Hi,

I need to create a document with multiple 32x32px artboards in designer. I can't for the life of my find that setting where you can specify how many artboards. I don't wanna create 100 artboards, one at a time 🤨.
Does anyone know where it is?

[Joachim_L]

I think there is no setting for specifying the number of artboards. Means I haven't found one. If you are able to produce a PDF with multiple blank 32x32px pages you can open them with ADesigner. Once you did this you can save the file as a template for later use. Attached you'll find a PDF with 25 pages for a test import.

32x32px.pdf

[Alfred]

34 minutes ago, belief-begin-conjoin said:

I don't wanna create 100 artboards, one at a time 🤨.

You don’t have to! An artboard is just a special kind of object, so you can insert two and duplicate them four times to get an extra eight, and then duplicate all ten repeatedly until you have a hundred.

[Joachim_L]

11 minutes ago, Alfred said:

so you can insert two and duplicate them four times to get an extra eight, and then duplicate all ten repeatedly until you have a hundred

Nicer it would be, specifying this at document setup.

100-pages.afdesign

[Alfred]

45 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:

Nicer it would be, specifying this at document setup.

[PepGold]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

You don’t have to! An artboard is just a special kind of object, so you can insert two and duplicate them four times to get an extra eight, and then duplicate all ten repeatedly until you have a hundred.

True, but you still have to rename each artboard manually. Otherwise you have 100 artboards named Artboard1. 

[GarryP]

But Artboard1 is such a nice name.
Our four youngest children are all called Artboard1 which makes it much easier to call them all in for their dinner.

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, belief-begin-conjoin said:

True, but you still have to rename each artboard manually. Otherwise you have 100 artboards named Artboard1. 

Yes, or fifty named ‘Artboard 1’ and another fifty named ‘Artboard 2’, or something like that! It would be so much better if duplicated objects were named with numerical suffixes incremented automatically.

[Joachim_L]

2 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Our four youngest children are all called Artboard1 which makes it much easier to call them all in for their dinner.

But if you want to export your children, how do you know who is who?

[GarryP]

Oh, I don’t think we could ever export any of them; they do such good work down the mine and up chimneys.
The money they bring in helps keep Mother and me in gin and cigars.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, belief-begin-conjoin said:

True, but you still have to rename each artboard manually. Otherwise you have 100 artboards named Artboard1. 

Just curious, but in practical terms would it really be very useful if say they were automatically named in a sequence like Artboard1, Artboard2, etc.?

If artboard names are important I think something more descriptive of the purpose or end use of each one would be better, but I can't think of any way to do that other than naming each one manually.

[Old Bruce]

6 hours ago, GarryP said:

But Artboard1 is such a nice name.
Our four youngest children are all called Artboard1 which makes it much easier to call them all in for their dinner.

Friend of mine was twelve years old when he realized his name was "David" and not "Richard...Roger...Gawddamit...David"

[Pšenda]

15 hours ago, belief-begin-conjoin said:

I don't wanna create 100 artboards,

Must be in separated Artboards? You can use the Grid with the separation of individual areas to draw icons.

https://affinityspotlight.com/article/designing-a-travel-icon-set-with-isabel-sousa/

[thomaso]

15 hours ago, Joachim_L said:

100-pages.afdesign 1.72 MB

8 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Friend of mine was twelve years old when he realized his name was "David" and not "Richard...Roger...Gawddamit...David"

 

I tried to auto-replace "Page" but couldn't find "Find & Replace" in AD 😜 ... So I learned to love to live with "Page"...

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@belief-begin-conjoin,
are you sure that 100 entirely empty artboards would be a helpful start? Imagine you would need to fill each of them with content manually...

[WeronikaSalach]

On 7/29/2020 at 11:54 PM, Pšenda said:

Must be in separated Artboards? You can use the Grid with the separation of individual areas to draw icons.

https://affinityspotlight.com/article/designing-a-travel-icon-set-with-isabel-sousa/

Thanks so much for drawing my attention to this article! That's a very interesting approach - using the grid. What do you think, how does she export all those icons separately, from this one artboard? Does it have to do with the Export persona an creating slices? Thank so much for your insights!

Wera