Hidden Artboard (Designer > Publisher > Designer)

[p382c]

Hi Designer artboards are suddenly hidden when I use File > Edit in Publisher... and convert artboards to spreads. They're still present when  you export as pdf though.

 

 

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

They are not hidden; they are converted to Pages. Each artboard becomes one page, and you can navigate between the pages using the page navigator on the lower left, or using the Pages studio panel. That conversion is a one-way process. If you take the file back to Designer you will still have pages, not artboards.

And, upon returning the file to Designer, if you want to navigate between pages you use the page navigator on the lower left:

If you don't want that behavior, choose No when asked if you want to convert them to spreads; then they will remain artboards within Publisher.

I'm not sure what you mean by "they're still there if you export as PDF". If you've converted to Spreads when opening in Publisher, and you then Export as PDF, the PDF contains pages not artboards. However, if you open a PDF in Designer each page of the PDF always becomes an artboard. But, for me, those artboards are named Page 1, Page 2, etc., and not Artboard1, Artboard2, etc.

[p382c]

Yes. I mean the artboards are hidden in Designer.

DESIGNER

1. create artboards
2. File > Edit in Publisher...

 

PUBLISHER

1. convert artboards to spreads > Yes

 

DESIGNER

1. missing artboards/pages
2. export to pdf > pages are present

[p382c]

sorry I get it now. Never noticed this in designer before and could've sworn the pages reverted back to artboards when I reopened in designer.

[walt.farrell]

18 minutes ago, p382c said:

Never noticed this in designer before

It's only present when your document contains pages instead of artboards.

[prophet]

Just found this quirk and had a minor freak out. Thank goodness for this forum.

Is there a better way to handle this in the UI with a pages panel? Or with an alert when opening? Or, and this might be crazy, convert pages back into artboards?

[walt.farrell]

37 minutes ago, prophet said:

Or, and this might be crazy, convert pages back into artboards?

If you want to have Artboards, then when you Open the .afdesign file in Publisher, just tell it not to convert the Artboards to Spreads. Then when you transfer the file back to Designer you'll still have the Artboards you want.