GRAFKOM Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 I would like to be able to add my own name in the Pages panel to existing names Page 1, Page 2 ... If we create a dozen or several dozen pages, it is easier to find logically signed pages, not just Page 1 or other. This should be done exactly as you would now add your own names to objects in the Layers panel. stefano.cecere, bures and Deperditus Cliens 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Rieger Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 +1. This would also be super helpful for those times in publisher when you need to export all of the pages in a Publisher document as images (not a single PDF). Currently it uses the name of the Publisher file along with a page number, but being able to specify a page name to be used instead would be really useful. bures and GRAFKOM 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 1 minute ago, BryanR said: +1. This would also be super helpful for those times I publisher when you need to export all of the pages in a Publisher document as images (not a single PDF). Currently it uses the name of the Publisher file along with a page number, but being able to specify a page name to be used instead would be really useful. Have you considered using a document made with Artboards rather than Pages for that scenario? Publisher can do either, if you also own Designer. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Rieger Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Have you considered using a document made with Artboards rather than Pages for that scenario? Publisher can do either, if you also own Designer. Yes, but pages are the best construct for what I'm working on. If I wanted to use artboards I'd work in Designer. GRAFKOM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 I think if pages can be named it has to be part of a redesign of the section manager. The problem with naming absolute pages is the same as starting sections on an absolute page number - content can flow automatically in a page layout app. I realize for certain use cases this isn't an issue - perhaps you don't flow text between frames in which case it would work fine. But imagine somebody who named a page Fruits and then found that the page contained Vegetables because the text reflowed. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRAFKOM Posted February 20, 2023 Author Share Posted February 20, 2023 All right. But what's stopping you from still being able to add a page name? He thinks it would behave exactly the same way in the layer panel. The name of the layer can be changed, and if, for example, a new layer is added, the order of the previously named layer will change, although the word Layer 1, Layer 2 is not shown in the layers. In the Pages panel, if, for example, Page 3 is named "Page 3 Apple" and we add 1 page before it, we will get - "Page 4 Apple". It is important that the content of a given page is assigned to the given name. Of course if the design is used for flowing text on pages then I would rather not use the page name. But I'd love to have that opportunity. In my day-to-day work at Publisher, this would be very, very useful to me. I work in the advertising industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 5 hours ago, GRAFKOM said: All right. But what's stopping you from still being able to add a page name? He thinks it would behave exactly the same way in the layer panel. The name of the layer can be changed, and if, for example, a new layer is added, the order of the previously named layer will change, although the word Layer 1, Layer 2 is not shown in the layers. In the Pages panel, if, for example, Page 3 is named "Page 3 Apple" and we add 1 page before it, we will get - "Page 4 Apple". It is important that the content of a given page is assigned to the given name. Of course if the design is used for flowing text on pages then I would rather not use the page name. But I'd love to have that opportunity. In my day-to-day work at Publisher, this would be very, very useful to me. I work in the advertising industry. I think you misunderstood me. If each page has its own text frames which are not linked, then of course inserting a page before a named page will keep the name attached to the right page. But if you have 500 pages in your book and all of them have frames that are linked together, naming a page would cause confusion, because editing the text will reflow the text from page to page. If you name page 189 to "cats" and the "cats" text flows automatically to page 191, the page label will be associated with the wrong page. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRAFKOM Posted February 21, 2023 Author Share Posted February 21, 2023 All right. But I am asking for the ability to add your own page name. Who doesn't want to name the page, doesn't name it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefano.cecere Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 i've been working on a several hundred pages project (no, it wasn't a book, but a complex project with dozens of different chapters) in Publisher, and i really missed the possibility to name pages and sections. woudl also be nice to see sections in the page list GRAFKOM 1 Quote PLAY WELL DIE HAPPY! Game Based Learning, Music, Parenting, Trascendence and 2042 Humanist Revolution - stefanocecere.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 8 hours ago, stefano.cecere said: i've been working on a several hundred pages project (no, it wasn't a book, but a complex project with dozens of different chapters) in Publisher, and i really missed the possibility to name pages and sections. woudl also be nice to see sections in the page list You can name sections in v1 and v2 but unfortunately they don't appear in the Pages panel. It would be nice to have collapsible sections in the panel. Oufti, GRAFKOM and Old Bruce 3 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GRAFKOM Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 I wanted to remind Serif that there is still an unresolved issue of adding page names in Publisher. The case has gone quiet, but it is not solved. Every day in my professional career at Publisher I miss the ability to add page names. I want to pay you Serif to add this option. Provide your account number and price, I'll be happy to pay. (Maybe not as much as Canva, but I'll make some money). Marek Poland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSWellness Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 I agree this would be a very useful feature. Using publisher for product labels we have 100+ variations of the same label (different scents of a single product). As we print in house being able to search the exact label we require would speed up workflow dramatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 4 hours ago, RSWellness said: I agree this would be a very useful feature. Using publisher for product labels we have 100+ variations of the same label (different scents of a single product). As we print in house being able to search the exact label we require would speed up workflow dramatically. Even if you could name pages, with 100+ it would be faster to add the name in a text frame on each page (hidden or moved outside the bleed zone) and then use Find to jump to the desired page. PaoloT and Old Bruce 2 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSWellness Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Using find is such a simple solution id never considered, and in general will speed things up for me. Thanks! MikeTO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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