jsgeare Posted February 22, 2023 Posted February 22, 2023 Looks like artboards cover up, or maybe replace the document. How do I move from an artboard to a document? Is an artboard a replacement for a "paste board?" Or what? Sorry, very newbie, here. Quote
firstdefence Posted February 22, 2023 Posted February 22, 2023 https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/Artboards/artboards_about.html Quote Artboards are discrete design areas, of any shape and size, within the same document, on which you can place design elements. Objects which extend beyond the boundary of an artboard are clipped to the edge of the artboard's design area. jsgeare 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
walt.farrell Posted February 22, 2023 Posted February 22, 2023 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. A document can initially contain: A Canvas (default in Photo and Designer) An Artboard (optional in Designer and Publisher) One or more Pages, and optionally a Master Page (Publisher). So, you have a choice of what you start with, depending on the application you're using. But if you start with a Canvas, and add an Artboard, you lose the canvas. The contents of the canvas may end up as part of the Artboard, or they may end up on the pasteboard, depending on how you create the Artboard. Once you have an Artboard, I don't think you can go back to having a Canvas. adobe and PaoloT 2 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
R C-R Posted February 22, 2023 Posted February 22, 2023 To simplify slightly, a document is the top level container of a file. They may include one or more artboards or just a canvas with all the layers in it. jsgeare 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
firstdefence Posted February 22, 2023 Posted February 22, 2023 Nice tutorial of artboards for Affinity V1 but should be very similar to Affinity Designer v2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
loukash Posted February 22, 2023 Posted February 22, 2023 38 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Once you have an Artboard, I don't think you can go back to having a Canvas. Of course you can: select the artboard layer delete choose from prompt if you want to keep or delete its content Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2
walt.farrell Posted February 22, 2023 Posted February 22, 2023 Thanks, @N.P.M. and @loukash. I hadn't thought of that. Doesn't work quite the same way on iPad, where deleting the Artboard deletes all the content unless you've dragged it outside the Artboard layer first. But (at least on iPad) that does seem to give the document a Canvas. 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
loukash Posted February 22, 2023 Posted February 22, 2023 30 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Doesn't work quite the same way on iPad, where deleting the Artboard deletes all the content unless you've dragged it outside the Artboard layer first. Uh-oh… Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2
laurent32 Posted February 23, 2023 Posted February 23, 2023 Documents, Artboards, Canvas, Pages, Master Pages… Can you explain more what is the Pasteboard ? Quote MacBook Pro 16 pouces (3456 × 2234), 2021 / Apple M1 Pro / 16 Go / macOS Ventura Version 13.4.1 (22F82) + 31,5 pouces (2560 × 1440) + 27 pouces (1080 × 1920) + iPad (8th generation) / iPadOS 17.2 + Apple Pencil + … Macmini6,2 Quad-Core Intel Core i7 16 Go / macOS Catalina version 10.15.7 (19H2026) MacBookAir6,2 Intel Core i5 double cœur 4 Go / macOS Big Sur version 11.7.7 (20G1345) Licence Universelle Affinity V2 updated to 2.3.0
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