ces58 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Please advise how i open up an artboard to show its components. The artboard has been copied into my document but i need to make changes. Real novice here but doing my best. i produce a newsletter for a voluntary group so not a professional user. Never used an artboard before. Not sure I will again as it is looking as if I might need to start again. Quote
Alfred Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Please tell us what you can see in the workspace and what you can see in the Layers panel. Please also state which version of Affinity Designer you’re using, and on what operating system. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
ces58 Posted January 30 Author Posted January 30 In the layers panel the whole page is listed as an artboard. It won't open. I am on the latest version of Affinity - Designer and Publisher. i am using a PC version. Quote
carl123 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 On the far left of Artboard layer (in the Layers Panel) you should see an arrow. If you click on the arrow, it should expand the Artboard layer and show you all the other layers on that artboard If that does not help, we will need a full-size screenshot uploaded to the forum Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
Alfred Posted January 30 Posted January 30 15 minutes ago, ces58 said: i am using a PC version. Which one? 23 minutes ago, Alfred said: Please tell us what you can see in the workspace If anything! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
ces58 Posted January 30 Author Posted January 30 5 minutes ago, carl123 said: On the far left of Artboard layer (in the Layers Panel) you should see an arrow. If you click on the arrow, it should expand the Artboard layer and show you all the other layers on that artboard If that does not help, we will need a full-size screenshot uploaded to the forum Unfortunately that doesn't work. I will try and paste a picture of the layers panel. screenshot.docx Quote
carl123 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Your Artboard has been Rasterised and is now a Pixel Layer so you are no longer able to access any of the individual items that were previously on that Artboard Not sure who rasterised it or why the Artboard was rasterised (Possibly done by accident) Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
ces58 Posted January 30 Author Posted January 30 13 minutes ago, Alfred said: Which one? If anything! Windows 10. most recent version of Affinity. Please see the screen shot below Quote
ces58 Posted January 30 Author Posted January 30 4 minutes ago, carl123 said: Your Artboard has been Rasterised and is now a Pixel Layer so you are no longer able to access any of the individual items that were previously on that Artboard Not sure who rasterised it or why the Artboard was rasterised (Possibly done by accident) Is there no way to return it to presumably a vector layer? Don't remember rasterising it but it is possible as I am still learning. Quote
GarryP Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Screenshots can usually be uploaded directly to the forums without ‘wrapping’ them in another document. When posting screenshots, please give us full-screen screenshots (showing the whole application UI) where possible. Full-screen screenshots are often more useful for diagnostic purposes than limited-area screen-grabs. We can always zoom in to full-screen screenshots to see the details but we can’t ‘zoom out’ to see information that hasn’t been provided. If there is information on the screen which you don’t want to be made public then you can take the screenshot and then manipulate it in any Affinity application before posting. For example, you can draw a filled rectangle over the information you don’t want us to see, or Blur the area, and tell us that you have done that so we know that what we see isn’t exactly what you see. If you are using more than one screen then a full-screen screenshot of each screen you are using the application on would help. Quote
GarryP Posted January 30 Posted January 30 4 minutes ago, ces58 said: Is there no way to return it to presumably a vector layer? 49 minutes ago, ces58 said: The artboard has been copied into my document... How did you “copy” the Artboard into the document? R C-R 1 Quote
carl123 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 1 minute ago, ces58 said: Is there no way to return it to presumably a vector layer? Don't remember rasterising it but it is possible as I am still learning. It was possibly done when opening the document in Publisher and the option to "convert artboards to spreads" was selected You can try using the Edit > Undo function multiple times if this was done recently - otherwise there is no way to convert it back to an Artboard, unless you have a backup document Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
ces58 Posted January 30 Author Posted January 30 Thank you everyone. I am resigned to doing it again. i have an erlier version with some of the earlier ideas that i can go from. Thanks Carol Quote
R C-R Posted January 30 Posted January 30 5 hours ago, carl123 said: It was possibly done when opening the document in Publisher and the option to "convert artboards to spreads" was selected I don't see any way that could cause it. At least when I tried it with 2 artboards I created in AD containing various texts, shapes & pixel layers & then edited in APub, converting it spreads did not convert either artboard's contents into a single raster layer. 5 hours ago, GarryP said: How did you “copy” the Artboard into the document? I think if the OP explained more about that, there might be a chance the un-rasterized version could be fully recovered from wherever it was copied from. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 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
carl123 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 10 hours ago, R C-R said: I don't see any way that could cause it. At least when I tried it with 2 artboards I created in AD containing various texts, shapes & pixel layers & then edited in APub, converting it spreads did not convert either artboard's contents into a single raster layer. Oops, my mistake. I tested with a single shape on an artboard Which when converted to spreads I just saw the shape icon on the layer which I mistook for the pixel layer icon Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
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