Display chnages to black when I remove last artboard

[Lutz Pietschker]

v2.3.0, MacOS 13.2

I encounter this behaviour:

• I created a Designer document without an artboard and created artwork on it.
• I added objects from another existing Designer documents (c&p). Each object was an artboard containing 2 objects (ellipse + text).
• For each artboard I moved the objects to outside the artboard and deleted the artboard. No complaints until …
• … when I delete the last artboard: At that moment the screen goes black, the former artboard shows white. The artboard is gone from the layer panel, all other objects are still there but show only as blue selection frames when selected.
• Saving and re-opening does not change anything.

spielplan 2.afdesign

[Lutz Pietschker]

Actually it is worse than that, as I just noticed. So far the objects in my document where all outside the artboard. When I move them to inside the artboard, all I see is the artboard area as a white rectangle with the objects hidden behind that. As before, I just see the selection frames when I select the objects.

[NotMyFault]

All layers are still present, only far outside the visible canvas.

Just select all layers, and create a new artboard, and  move all layers as child to the artboard.

Alternatively, you can go to document setup and enlarge the canvas size by factor 10.

Or open the file in Photo and use „unclip canvas“.

No bug in my view. 

[NotMyFault]

spielplan 2x.afdesign

[NotMyFault]

And why not simply use undo / history? This works before closing the file, and even after closing if you enable „save with history“