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

[vishalsignap]

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.

 

[walt.farrell]

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.

[vishalsignap]

that's interesting and works great, thanks.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

[dePonce]

It would be great indeed to add a Grep/Regular Expression style Find/Replace to Designer. When working with large floor plans and maps this feature is very necessary. In Adobe Illustrator I wrote a plug in that not only allows grep find/replace but also allows me to use grep to find something and select it or highlight it. This would be an awesome feature set to include in a future version.