Change Artboards to be more like Adobe/ Afinity Publisher

[hntrsvg]

Hello!

Big fan of the affinity suite, I only use photo and publisher now and frankly the only thing keeping me from changing over from illustrator too is the way the art boards work currently.

I'll be frank, it's really terrible and significantly more messy than what Adobe illustrator does. There's no trim/ preview button and for projects with bleed I can't even let it auto add to the art board because then i can't see whats in the bleed. It needs a complete overhaul because its probably keeping a LOT of illustrator people including me from switching.

My solution/suggestion: make it function more like how Publisher functions right now. Instead of having the art boards be a special kind of layer on the layers panel, make them function as "pages", but without the separate layers for each page. Click the art board tool and you can edit the size and position of them but otherwise its all locked basically. Have a button on top like in publisher that lets you "trim" to the edges of the art board so that everything not on any of the art boards is hidden.

I just need these things to start working like multiple small canvases you can draw on and outside of and not weird layers with an auto clip on them. I can live without folders but i cannot live with bad art boards.