rui_mac Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 As it is now, when exporting a multi-artboard document as PDF, the page sequence seems to be defined by the spacial location of the artboards inside the pasteboard area, but someone correct me if my assumption is wrong. If this is the case, this is not the best way, by far. At the very least, the order should be the one defined in the layer panel, from top to bottom. If this is too restrictive, maybe each artboard could have a page number attached and it would show up in the name, lie this: Artboard Name (#1) The numbers should be able to be edited and, of course, no similar numbers would be allowed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 The order is the order in the layer panel, bottom to top. If you think in terms of overlapping objects, then the first artboard to be drawn becomes the first page. If you start with a blank document and create four artboards, the one you created first will become the first page, and the one you created last will become the last page. No way should artboard have page numbers, because artboards are not pages. We will add proper page support in due course. paolo.limoncelli, rui_mac and Matthias 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rui_mac Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Oh, bottom to top. Not what I expected ;) Great to know that proper pages will come :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 […] artboards are not pages. We will add proper page support in due course. Great! Really curious how Affinity will implement this as there seem to be conceptional overlaps between a page and an artboard. I’m sure this flexibility can be super-awesome though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gummer Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 my rant moved to https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/14780-artboards-feedback Quote one planet, one chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houseofdeadleg Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 No way should artboard have page numbers, because artboards are not pages. We will add proper page support in due course. What's the difference between artboards and pages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 One difference is that artboards all share a coordinate system. Pages are used in a more regimented way. For example, you have notions like facing pages, two-page spreads and page imposition. anon1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houseofdeadleg Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Is it envisaged that AD would be used for multi-page documents, etc? I would have thought that would be the domain of Affinity Publisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Probably. That people want to use artboards as pages, and open and save multi-page PDFs, shows that many Designer users would appreciate proper page support. Haluke 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPStephan Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I would really suggest you devs look at how Fireworks has implemented pages (and shared layers, for that matter). Even if you don’t implement it like that, it might give a good idea how web/UI designers might be thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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