RSI Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Hi! I am absolutely new to Affinity products and have worked with Corel Suit for a long time in the past. Some things were easier there in my opinion. I'm using Affinity Photo and Designer on Windows 10 because I haven't been happy with Corel for years. They are not commercial projects, but purely hobby / private. But... to my question. I have a project in Designer where I want to use multiple pages instead of spreading them to individual files. Now I just want to add a new page, or copy the last page and use it as a base for the new page. In the help (German) it says I should add new pages in the "Pages panel". Fine, but the help is not really helpful, because where is the "Panel Pages"??? A few pictures in the online help would be more helpful! I searched everywhere for a panel or menu entry for pages, but found nothing. Maybe someone here can help me, because I'm having a very hard time figuring out where what is in the Affinity products. And as already written, the help page is not necessarily always helpful. Thanks for any help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Designer does not have Pages, it has Artboards. There is an Artboard tool which can create a new Artboard. It is similar to a Page. RSI 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSI Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 Just now, Old Bruce said: Designer does not have Pages, it has Artboards. There is an Artboard tool which can create a new Artboard. It is similar to a Page. Thank you! That was a fast answer! Ok, that ArtBoard I have found. Then I must have been shown the wrong help when I searched for it on the net. Thanks, I will have a look at the ArtBoard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSI Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 Just another little question... are there global help lines for all art board, or can I just copy help lines to another art board? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, RSI said: Just another little question... are there global help lines for all art board, or can I just copy help lines to another art board? No easy way to do this. Basically No there are no guides for all Artboards, individual only. You would have to set them up for each artboard. I have found that using the Guides Manager's Column Guides will put the same set of Column Guides on all artboards. Unfortunately if you have different sized artboards the Column guides will be applied with relative sizes. Meaning you cannot have a set of 3cm columns, you can only have a number of Columns and Rows. Take a look at it though, it may do what you want. Try and think different, maybe sideways instead of straight ahead. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSI Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 Thank you for the help and hints. Since the project won't have more than about 10 pages and I'm only concerned about being able to center objects / images with a certain margin spacing, I guess I'll just set appropriate margins for each art board. That still works the easiest! With pages, of course, it would have been easier, because one could then set the margins / help lines there globally. Or maybe I made a mistake in the app and the Publisher would have been better suited? Let's see if I get this in addition, because for different projects just different tools work better. Then I would have a virtually complete suite, Photo / Design / Publisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy05 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Yes, Publisher would be the better choice when working with multiple pages. Photo -> pixel image edit/manipulation Designer -> vector works/illustrations Publisher -> Layout program. Usually the best use for Publisher is creating your layouts with objects, you prepared or created in the other two apps. Especially if you are working with multiple pages. Quote »A designer's job is to improve the general quality of life. In fact, it's the only reason for our existence.«Paul Rand (1914-1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSI Posted December 12, 2021 Author Share Posted December 12, 2021 5 hours ago, Andy05 said: Yes, Publisher would be the better choice when working with multiple pages. Photo -> pixel image edit/manipulation Designer -> vector works/illustrations Publisher -> Layout program. Usually the best use for Publisher is creating your layouts with objects, you prepared or created in the other two apps. Especially if you are working with multiple pages. Yes, thank you! That's what I was thinking now. I guess I misjudged the publisher and designer. For my project, the publisher would have been better. Eventually I will get the publisher, but at the moment I have to deal with the designer, because the project should be finished before Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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