Publisher (Layout page - Properties)

[Gerhard Trimpin]

The new function in 2.6 is great and more than wellcome - but has one limitation:
I am supposed to build a spiral fold with 8 pages. To do this, two folded pages must be shortened by 2 mm each.

Under Layout page - Properties I can't change both pages to be changed in one go... I can only change one page, leave the layout page - properties and call it up again to make the second change.

It is also not possible to select several pages in order to change them to the same value.

It should be possible to implement such changes in one operation under Layout page - Properties.
I would be pleased if these changes could be taken up for one of the next versions.

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[MikeTO]

2 hours ago, Gerhard Trimpin said:

Under Layout page - Properties I can't change both pages to be changed in one go... I can only change one page, leave the layout page - properties and call it up again to make the second change.

That is correct, it's a limitation. Serif is aware of the issue but I don't know if there's a plan to change it.

2 hours ago, Gerhard Trimpin said:

It is also not possible to select several pages in order to change them to the same value.

You should be able to do that. If they're in the same spread you can select as many pages in the spread as you like to change them together. Shift+click the additional pages to select them. If they're in different spreads, you can change multiple spreads at the same time but not one page of one spread and one page of another spread.

Cheers

[Gerhard Trimpin]

1 hour ago, MikeTO said:

Shift+click the additional pages to select them.

Thanks for your answer. Shift+click dos not work on mac - Command+click dos.

That helps me with my problem for now. I'm still hoping Serif will find a better way to solve the problem!

[MikeTO]

38 minutes ago, Gerhard Trimpin said:

Thanks for your answer. Shift+click dos not work on mac - Command+click dos.

That helps me with my problem for now. I'm still hoping Serif will find a better way to solve the problem!

Shift+Click does work on Mac and it extends a selection just like everywhere else in Affinity and macOS. If the spread has 10 pages and page 2 is selected, you can Shift+Click page 5 to select pages 2-5 or Cmd+Click page 5 to select pages 2 and 5.

[Gerhard Trimpin]

3 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Shift+Click does work on Mac and it extends a selection just like everywhere else in Affinity and macOS.

Ok - there are two ways to select the pages: the minitures on the left and the list on the right. Shift+click and the rest of the normal selection works on the list - it doesn't work on the minitures. So we are both right