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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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

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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!

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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.

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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)

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13 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Which one?

If anything!

Windows 10. most recent version of Affinity. Please see the screen shot below

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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