Arranging layers

[Steve Haisman]

Hi - thanks to all who advised me on numbering problems - all are now resolved, apart from one: most of my pages have full-page photographic backgrounds. How do I get the page numbers to sit on top of the backgrounds?

[Andreas Scherer]

Place a picture frame on the master page and a text frame with the page number on top. Then you can populate the picture frame on each page with individual images.

[carl123]

From memory...

On one of the pages that have "full-page photographic backgrounds" right click the Master page layer (in the Layers panel) that contains the page numbers and select Edit Linked

Then select Layer > Arrange > Move to Front and click the finish button (top of screen)

Assuming you have nothing else but a page number text frame on that particular Master page, all should be fine

If there are other elements on that Master page, who knows?

 

 

 

[Steve Haisman]

Hmm, I'm having some problems here.

I can't find a way to put a blank photo layer on the master page... and I can't find the 'move to front command.

[carl123]

I'm assuming your Master A page is applied to all pages except page 1 in your document

If so go to, say, page 5 and try what I advised earlier

[Steve Haisman]

Thanks carl - that seemed to work, only I have an unwanted highlight to the numbers, and the number on page 5 has doubled up to '55' instead of 5

[carl123]

Not sure why you are seeing 55 

Check your Master page, the page field is normally showing as just # yours is showing as #1

 

See this thread below regarding possible reason for the highlight

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/167053-renumbering-project-on-affinity-publisher/

 

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, carl123 said:

Check your Master page, the page field is normally showing as just # yours is showing as #1

FWIW, it looks like in the first screenshot above, the Master A page is selected (highlighted) in the Pages panel, but the view is actually set to some document page, so the Layers panel is showing the text layer from Master A for that (otherwise empty?) page; thus the solid red bar indicating it is a Master page item.

[Steve Haisman]

3 minutes ago, R C-R said:

FWIW, it looks like in the first screenshot above, the Master A page is selected (highlighted) in the Pages panel, but the view is actually set to some document page, so the Layers panel is showing the text layer from Master A for that (otherwise empty?) page; thus the solid red bar indicating it is a Master page item.

Yes, thank you.

I've already sorted the problem out - well, Carl sorted it out - so for now everything is fine!

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