How do you export a multi-page PDF from Photo?

[Stokestack]

Hi all.

I have a multi-layer Photo file. I tried including layers when exporting to PDF with both "persona" and "non-persona" methods, but this didn't appear to do anything. The resulting PDF was only one page.

Any idea what gives here? File attached.

Thanks!

vaporizerManual.afphoto

[v_kyr]

Photo conceptually doesn't deal & support multi-page document files, thus it doesn't offer to generate these. - The best to deal with multi-page documents is Publisher here and to some limited degree Designer when using it's Artboards.

[Stokestack]

Thanks! Any idea what "include layers" is supposed to do, then?

[R C-R]

3 minutes ago, Stokestack said:

Thanks! Any idea what "include layers" is supposed to do, then?

It does exactly what it says it does. The problem is you have 3 layers stacked on top of each other, not 3 pages.

One possible way to get around this if you do not have Affinity Publisher is to move the P2 & P3 layers to the right & use "Unclip Canvas" to get one big page with the 3 'page' layers next to each other & export that to a PDF to get something like this vaporizerManual.pdf file.

Note that your p3 layer does not include all of the text of that page of the manual.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[v_kyr]

Or use PDF online tools to perform several tasks with PDF files! - Like for example combining (merge) several single PDF files etc.

• PDF online tools

[Stokestack]

Thanks for the responses and helpful tips, everyone!

18 hours ago, R C-R said:

It does exactly what it says it does.

How? How are the layers manifested in the resulting PDF? I don't see any structure analogous to the layers in the document. Thanks!

[Stokestack]

Thanks. I opened the "Layers.pdf" file from that thread, and there's no indication of layers in Preview on the Mac.

I don't even understand where that capital-L bug comes into play, but it sounds ridiculous!

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[Stokestack]

Thanks for taking the time to provide that info. Since Preview on the Mac makes Acrobat Reader unnecessary, I would guess that almost nobody sees PDF "layers" or content-group visibility toggles on the Mac.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[Stokestack]

1 hour ago, lacerto said:

so the feature would mainly be useful e.g. in printing purposes, to isolate (show/hide) specific layers

Which is not a feature Serif understands, considering one of the most complained-about functionality gaps in their applications.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[Stokestack]

I was referring to Serif's refusal to add the ability to flag a layer as non-printing in their applications; this is a standard feature in similar software.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.