handar Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 How to add a new page in a designer document. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 7, 2017 Staff Share Posted February 7, 2017 Hi handar, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Affinity designer doesn't support pages yet. But you can use artboards as a replacement for now (they will be exported as pages when you export the file as a PDF). You can create an artboard based document going to menu File ▸ New and checking Create artboard in the New Document dialog (on top) or if you already created your document with the desired dimensions, select the Artboard Tool, go to the context and press Insert Artboard to convert your document to an artboard-based document. Click again on the same button to add more artboards or duplicate them as you do with regular objects. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George_mx Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Hi! I'm a casual user of desing apps, and I'm migrating from Corel Draw, by the way, you guys have made a great job!! About the pages, is ther any plan in the near future about adding the pages feature? Thanks!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 24 minutes ago, George_mx said: About the pages, is ther any plan in the near future about adding the pages feature? Just guessing, but Serif would probably say that if you want Pages you should use Publisher. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 6, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 6, 2020 Hi George_mx, Welcome to Affinity Forums This thread is quite old. During this time we released Affinity Publisher which is our dedicated software for desktop publishing. As far as i know there's no plans to add support for pages in Designer as initially discussed/commented in my reply above. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cje Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) I would just like to chime in here, as a "tester" coming from CorelDraw too. As a designer I use pages as a scrap book; when designing a new theme, logo or similar I start working with ideas, then I 'm used to open a new page to work more on some of the ideas, then a new page to work more on even less ideas, and so on. Then i may use one page for keeping fonts which I find relevant for the project, another few pages for icons, etc. A typical logo workflow will contain at least 10 page with different parts of the process to the final product. With Affinity it seems like I have to open a new document for each step in the process, which will make it really messy, in my world at least. Edited April 2, 2020 by cje thedivclass 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 4 minutes ago, cje said: I would just like to chime in here, as a "tester" coming from CorelDraw too. As a designer I use pages as a scrap book; when designing a new theme, logo or similar I start working with ideas, then I 'm used to open a new page to work more on some of the ideas, then a new page to work more on even less ideas, and so on. Then i may use one page for keeping fonts which I find relevant for the project, another few pages for icons, etc. A typical logo workflow will contain at least 10 page with different parts of the process to the final product. With Affinity it seems like I have to open a new document for each step in the process, which will make it really messy, in my world at least. If you are using Designer try using the Artboard tool to create the 'pages' you want to work on as you progress. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cje Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 10 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: If you are using Designer try using the Artboard tool to create the 'pages' you want to work on as you progress. Thank you! 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 if you have Photo, you can use my macro. Open .afdesign in Photo and execute the macro then save it. It is not an artboard but a page compatible with Publisher. add page.afmacro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Bernstein Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 But if I open a multi-page AI file in Designer, it will present as pages. So we now know Designer can handle pages. Now I need to add more pages while in Designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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