PepGold Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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 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...
Alfred Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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 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...
Alfred Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 45 minutes ago, Joachim_L said: Nicer it would be, specifying this at document setup. Joachim_L, kaffeeundsalz and thomaso 3 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PepGold Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 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. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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. GarryP 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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? 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...
GarryP Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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. Joachim_L 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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" GarryP and Alfred 2 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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/ Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 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"... Quote Grant Page (born 1939) is an Australian stuntman who worked mostly during the seventies and eighties. Page was the stunt coordinator for the popular Australian action movie Mad Max (1979), (...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Page @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... Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeronikaSalach Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 On 7/29/2020 at 11:54 PM, PÅ¡enda 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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