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FIND AND REPLACE feature missing in affinity designer - please add it in the next version


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I was devastated not to find a find/replace feature in designer when I was working with text after importing a pdf document pages. 

The artboard tool is a great feature to see the entire pdf laid out like a grid unlike publisher where it shows either as vertically scrollable pages or spreads but not showing all pages as a grid. However, find and replace tool will help immensely to replace extra  spaces etc like how publisher allows.

Please update it in the next version.

 

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Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Others have asked for that, and we have no idea whether Serif will add it to Designer.

As a workaround for your workflow, while you wait:

  1. Open the file in Designer, which gives you Artboards as you've found.
  2. From Designer, File > Edit in Publisher, which will transfer the file to Publisher, but keep it in Artboard format.
  3. You then have Find/Replace and the other Publisher functions (text flow, etc.) available while you work on the document.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
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You're welcome.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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