no add pages option

[Viol]

Hi, I've bought an affinity designer 1.9.2 for windows, but how on earth, I can find a simple thing like 'add a new page'? I have checked everywhere and I can't see any option to add the page. I've watched many tutorials and videos but in my program, this button doesn't exist. Is this possible that my version is incomplete? I've even reinstalled the program and still can't find it.

I' sorry if this is a stupid question, but I am really desperate.

Please, advise. Thank you.

[prophet]

Designer doesn't use "pages" but rather artboards.

[Viol]

Thanks for the correction but you did not answer my qst...

[prophet]

Sorry, you asked how to add pages and that is not possible in Designer.

If you'd like to create artboards, you can use the artboard tool. Second one down in the tool bar.

 

[walt.farrell]

3 minutes ago, Viol said:

Thanks for the correction but you did not answer my qst...

If you've checked everywhere, but were looking for the wrong thing, @prophet have you a hint to help you look in the right place. 

Open the Help and search for Artboard, or check the tutorials that describe Artboards. 

It's not a simple question, or at least it's not really a simple answer. You need to do some research.

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

It's not a simple question, or at least it's not really a simple answer.

It isn't simple because of the three Affinity apps, only Affinity Publisher can create pages. However, because all three apps use an identical native file format, either of the other two can access pages created in APub.

So for example, in this pages in Designer.afdesign example, you can open it as usual in AD, & by using the small easy to overlook navigator in the lower left corner of the workspace window (it's to the left of the status bar if you are having problems locating it) you can switch among either of the file's two document pages or to its single Master page.

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, R C-R said:

It isn't simple because of the three Affinity apps, only Affinity Publisher can create pages. However, because all three apps use an identical native file format, either of the other two can access pages created in APub.

I was thinking more that:

• Yes, we could assume that the OP needs to know how to create Artboards, but
• The exact mechanism for doing that will be different depending on whether the document already has an artboard or not. And
• The ways of working with artboard-based documents in Designer are somewhat different from what one would do working on a canvas-based document.

But yes, the fact that you could have a document open in Designer which was created in Publisher and uses Pages provides another layer of complexity to what might seem to be a simple question.

[Catshill]

My take…

You can mimic pages in ADes with Artboards but they have been designed as “areas” for working in that are not necessarily the same size. The developers see Publisher as the default paged based application so using artboards as pages is really a workaround. Certainly not as intuitive but doable imho.

[Viol]

Thank you so much for your answers.