Affinity Publisher - management of layers

[VirginiaL]

for both uses.

Imagine a 250 pages book on which I need to update 10 pages. Task: I need to correct a recurrent name - in the layers "English" and "Italian" - and the position of some photos, in the layer "photo" for example.

- If I DON'T use Masters layers, I can edit the positioning of photos without additional clicks. But I have to switch on or off each Italian layer or English layer in each page I need to modificate its text (10 times). At the end, for exporting, I need to switch on or off 250 times.

- If I USE Masters layers, each photo should be detached (10 sessions of detaching). But I  can switch only ONCE Italian or English, for all of the corrections, and its exporting.

Then, yes, I prefer Masters layers. But something is missing, because the detaching makes the process longer respect than global layers.

[walt.farrell]

Or you could use a hybrid approach, with the text frames on the Master Page and the images not on the Master. Then you have the best handling for both.

[VirginiaL]

I simplified my case. As reported before I never place something once and for all

[Old Bruce]

21 hours ago, VirginiaL said:

- If I USE Masters layers, each photo should be detached (10 sessions of detaching). But I  can switch only ONCE Italian or English, for all of the corrections, and its exporting.

If I know I am going to have to be updating images in the bilingual publication I would maybe not use Master pages for the pictures.

[VirginiaL]

I am trying to simplyfy my kind of work, in order to communicate better the needs.  Otherwise, trust me with Global Layers, I would put so much less effort with all the tasks - indeed I am not questioning it is ok for you