Is there a similar way to export in Affinity Publisher as in Affinity Designer?

[Luis Simon]

Is there a similar way to export in Affinity Publisher as in Affinity Designer?

I am working on a large project where I need to create 180 onepages for the leaders of our foundation. Each onepage contains a hyperlink that leads to our website, and I need to export them individually in separate PDF files. If I export the entire document, the pages are merged into a single file. My goal is to provide each leader with their own separate document to email.

The problem is that because there are so many documents, I have to retype the name and export 180 times, which is not very intuitive. So what did I do, I exported the whole document as a PDF and then opened it in Affinity Designer to turn each page into a workbench and export it in "Persona" export However, another problem arose: the hyperlinks were lost when exporting in Affinity Designer.

I am looking for a more efficient solution, as it will take me a long time to export the individual pages in Affinity Publisher. Is there a more intuitive way to do this? I appreciate any advice you can give me. Thank you.


 

[Alfred]

7 minutes ago, Luis Simon said:

I exported the whole document as a PDF and then opened it in Affinity Designer

The “Unique Selling Point” of the Affinity suite is the shared file format. Try opening your *.afpub file directly in Affinity Designer: you should find that the pages of the APub document are exportable separately from there.

[walt.farrell]

41 minutes ago, Alfred said:

The “Unique Selling Point” of the Affinity suite is the shared file format. Try opening your *.afpub file directly in Affinity Designer: you should find that the pages of the APub document are exportable separately from there.

File > Export will export a single PDF of all pages. 

The Export Persona can be used to export a single-page PDF, but only of the single current page shown in the page selector, as far as I know. 

Therefore, this would require "n" individual export operations. 

The better approach, if restricted to hang the Affinity applications: Export from Publisher or Designer to a multi-page PDF. 

Open that PDF in Designer, which will give you "n" Artboards, one per page if the PDF.

Then use the Export Persona to export all the Artboards as individual PDF files.

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, Luis Simon said:

 the hyperlinks were lost when exporting in Affinity Designer.

@walt.farrell, @Alfred This is the killer. I can't figure out how to get PDFs exported from Designer with working Hyperlinks to a website.

[Luis Simon]

First of all, I appreciate yours response @walt.farrell @Alfred. My main drawback when exporting in Designer lies in what @Old Bruce mentioned: the hyperlinks in the PDFs are lost when exporting them using Designer's export option. So, my question is whether there is a way to export them without losing the hyperlinks. This is crucial for the organization I work for, as it is vital that the documents retain those links. Otherwise, I would have to export them multiple times, which is impractical 🥲🥲.

[David in Яuislip]

Don't struggle, use pdfSAM or an equivalent7_PDFsam_TenPageHyperlink.pdf

[_Th]

3 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

I can't figure out how to get PDFs exported from Designer with working Hyperlinks to a website.

Works for me if I choose either of the PDF (digital...) options under Preset. Following the Affinity help file and choosing PDF1.x (should be PDF/X-1 ... ?) does not embed the links, but both (digital...) options both do.

(2.10/Win 11)

EDIT: My bad. I see the PDF1.X is the selection under compatibility (as clearly stated in the help file ... doh!), not Preset. And I had PDF1.7 selected.

EDIT 2: My really bad. Missed the "from Designer" part. Going for coffee. Back when brain regains some semblance of functionality.

Edited June 7, 2023 by _Th