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Possible to create a Artboard by copying from a document or file to a given pasteboard ?


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I have some flyers and handouts Affinity Designer files with a lot of layers in different sizes and measurements.

Is it possible to create an Artboard by coping / dragging a existing Affinity designer file into an existing PASTEBOARD screen while other Artboards are there already in place - retaining the layers and settings of the imported one?

 

When dragging now, a multi layer Affinity designer file from the desktop to a existing Pasteboard the file is converted to a embedded one with layers and settings gone.

 

Even in the Workbook there is no mention of a way.

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Hi brunzenstein,

If you are in Separated Mode (menu Windows ▸ Separated Mode) you can drag an Artboard layer from the Layers panel to another document. You can also select the Artboard layer and copy/paste it to the second document.

Dragging an .afdesign file from the Finder to an existing document will always place it as an embedded document. In this case the setting aren't gone but you cannot edit embedded documents directly of the main document. You have to double-click the embedded document on canvas to open it in a new document tab and do your edits there - all you changes will be reflected in the embedded document on the main document tab.

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