Eddy-2 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Designer beta 1.9.0.852, Windows 10. I have a document on which I was unable to use the Art Board tool. I deleted all the contents and it seemed to be just a blank sheet, as expected. However, I still can't get the Art Board tool to work. Please see attachment. Art_board_problem.afdesign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 24, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 24, 2020 Hi Eddy-2, This document was originally created in Publisher. It's a page based document (notice the page 1 of 1 controls/navigation on the bottom left of the interface) and as such cannot have artboards. Regular artboard based documents don't have those page controls on the bottom left of the interface. If you go to File > Document Setup you will also notice there's a Layout tab there which is also not available on regular Designer documents. I'm afraid there's no way to convert it back to an artboard based document directly in Designer. For some reason it also crashes Publisher. I'm passing this file to the dev team for further inspection. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 10 minutes ago, MEB said: This document was originally created in Publisher. It's a page based document (notice the page 1 of 1 controls/navigation on the bottom left of the interface) as as such cannot have artboards. Regular artboard based documents don't have those page controls on the bottom left of the interface. If you go to File > Document Setup you will also notice there's a Layout tab there which is also not available on regular Designer documents. I'm afraid there's no way to convert it back to artboard based document directly. That file crashes Publisher Beta if I try to Open it, so it's more than simply being a file that was created in Publisher, I believe. There is a known bug that trying to Paste an Artboard into a document will break the document. Some of the symptoms: The Paste operation doesn't result in a layer being created. Once the Paste has been tried, the Artboard tool will not work, and claims the document has pages or a Master Page. If the document is Saved and reopened, the Page navigator will appear. (I had not seen that effect before, but I just reproduced it.) I suspect this is an occurrence of that problem, and that at some time Eddy tried to paste an Artboard into the document. (Or, perhaps, there is another path that leads to the problem, but I know that trying to paste an Artboard will do it, even in the Beta, so apparently the bug has not been fixed yet.) Recipe: Create Document1 in Designer. Add some content. In another document, select an Artboard in the Layers panel and Copy. Back in Document1, Paste. Try to use the Artboard Tool. It will fail. Save Document1. Reopen Document1, and it will have a Page navigator. Sean P 1 -- 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...
Eddy-2 Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 Thanks MEB and Walt. I have been working with the two programmes although I'm sure the original document started life in Designer. I still have it and will try to retrace my steps if I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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