Heres Johnny Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Hi, is there a PASTE IN PLACE functionality in Affinity Designer? Seriously can't find it. I often used this in Illustrator where I could copy and paste anything in the same spot. Kinda like what DUPLICATE does, but simply duplicating is not ideal in certain situations (e.g. when u want to duplicate a shape that's also a layer mask, but u don't want the mask). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Doesn't just Copy/Paste paste the copy in the same location the copied object was located at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 There appears to be a difference between duplicate and copy then paste in this situation. Example. Make a rectangle. Make a circle that overlaps it. Make the circle a mask which crops the rectangle. Open the layer so the mask circle can be selected. If duplicated, you get a repeat mask. That repeat mask can be moved out of the object/mask pair. At which point, there is another cicrle at the same place. If copied and pasted, there will be a circle at the same place positioned above in the layer stack. No need to move it out of the object/mask layer. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 If you hold down the "Alt" key on the keyboard when you have created the mask, you can expand the compound on the Studio's Layer tab to select the shape that serves as a mask. You copy and paste it on itself and you get the original form above the compound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heres Johnny Posted February 12, 2017 Author Share Posted February 12, 2017 Wow, it was dumb of me not to check the good old "CTRL+V" before posting. Usually, in Illustrator and other apps I've used, simply copying an object and pasting it would misplace it. Therefore, I got used to reaching for the "Paste in place" function and couldn't find it in Designer. Sorry to bother and thank you all for responding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 There is no problem Johnny. Glad that you get the solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crionis Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Hey guys... What about when you are trying to paste in place in another artboard? fernandolins86 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernandolins86 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Hey guys... What about when you are trying to paste in place in another artboard? Would like to know too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Hey guys... What about when you are trying to paste in place in another artboard? See my comments about that here. From an implementation standpoint, it isn't as simple & straightforward as it might seem, mostly because in Affinity Designer artboards can be of any size, shape, or rotation in the workspace. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renzatic Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 I'm having problems copying in place now as well, and, yeah, it's primarily due to the artboards. I figured it would've been a simple thing to fix. I'd just take the geometry I had in the artboard, copy/paste it into its own document, then delete the artboard off the layers. Well, it hasn't quite worked out as simply as I'd hope. I can get rid of the artboard itself, but it leaves a white space floating outside the main canvas, and it's still pasting my copied selections out in random places. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Any way to fix this? edit: I believe I've experienced a small bug. After watching a quick tutorial concerning artboards, it seems I'm doing nothing wrong. The space associated with the artboard should be gone the moment it's deleted, but it's not on my end. The label and everything inside it disappears, much as you'd expect but the white space remains, and still has enough of a presence in the editor that it can actually be snapped to when drawing geometry. I got around it by highlight selecting my geometry and background, copying it, then pasting from clipboard into a new document, so I'm alright now. Though the experience has made me slightly reticent about using artboards for the time being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David.P Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 OK so I only want to copy a group from page 3 of my (originally PDF) document to page 2 and paste it exactly in place there. For the life of me I can't seem to be able to do that. BTW, is there a "single page view" of a multi page document? I can't find that either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 (edited) You can’t paste in place from one side/page of a facing-pages spread to the other side/page as the position of the copied layer(s) is from the origin of the spread and not the page. I’m not totally sure what you mean by a “single page view” (or when you might want one, or what you would want one for) but I don’t think I’ve seen anything that looks like one. I could be wrong though. Edited August 14, 2020 by GarryP Clarification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 28 minutes ago, David.P said: is there a "single page view" of a multi page document? If by "multi page" you mean a document set up in "Facing Pages" mode, then no, as far as I now. But you can switch the document to non-Facing Page mode using Document Setup: 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...
David.P Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Thank you guys, will check and report back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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