design punch Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Hi, even so I made several books, I still being sometimes confused by following: If you duplicate a masterpage, both pages do have the same name (title), and one of them the title is highlighted blue. I would expect this is the new page, but it isn't. Its the original page (where e.g. pages are already assigned to it). I would suggest to put an suffix like (copy) to the end of the title on the duplicate, which makes it more easy to see in one view, which is the original page, which the copied page. Being practical, you would rename the duplicate anyhow in most of the cases afterwards. Thanks GarryP and sfriedberg 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettm30 Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 There was recently some discussion on this very matter: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
design punch Posted June 10, 2021 Author Share Posted June 10, 2021 Hi garrettm30, thanks for info, I thought I'm the only lonely one on this matter ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Yes, I reported the problem long ago, and.it could lead to errors when modifying tje original instead of the copy by error... and realizing this too late... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 If you don't name the master pages and just keep the default Master A, Master B, Master C naming convention, APub increments the letters automatically. If you name your master page anything else, e.g., Test or even Test A, it will not increment the letters. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
design punch Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 Hi MikeTO, I know, but it isn't very practical if you make a book which needs many different masterpages (see pic). MASTER A, B, C ... you would need extra lists to determine e.g. which MASTER is for which chapter. Wosven 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 23 hours ago, design punch said: Hi MikeTO, I know, but it isn't very practical if you make a book which needs many different masterpages (see pic). MASTER A, B, C ... you would need extra lists to determine e.g. which MASTER is for which chapter. I completely agree, I give my master pages meaningful names, too. I was just pointing out that the developers of APub may have intended to have automatic duplicate name incrementing but forgot to extend that capability when they built the feature to rename master pages. Old Bruce 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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