how to add a new page in designer/

[handar]

How to add a new page in a designer document.

[MEB]

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. 

[George_mx]

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!!!

[walt.farrell]

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.

[MEB]

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.

[cje]

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

[Old Bruce]

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.

[cje]

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! 👍

[ashf]

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

[Jeff Bernstein]

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.