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Affinity Designer - replication or workflow question?


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Hi Everyone -

 

I'm new to design software and I've been creating a few things for friends that have repeating blocks of text with variations .. and I was wondering if any of you have examples of how you set up your workflow or if you have any tips to make my workflow better?

 

A typical job I do is create tickets for shows. Each ticket will have the same price, address, logo, location, but the dates and times will change. Then that ticket is repeated 8 times on a sheet of paper.

 

When I first started, I would do an individual design in a group with the dates on a layers grouped together inside the individual ticket layer. Then I would export each version by turning on/off layers .. it would require me to drill down several layers to find the date/time I wanted, then I'd have to repeat that action for the 7 other tickets on a page.

 

Then I started creating layers of only my dates & times across all 8 tickets. So I only had 2 boxes to tick to switch the dates & times instead of changing 8 times .. but I noticed sometimes the structure or alignment would get messed up and it was difficult to fix.

 

My latest job I used art boards to create an individual ticket with layers for each time/date, and then copied and pasted it 8 times on another board .. and turned off/on layers to get the variations. 

 

 

My questions:

- is there was something dynamic or a time saving trick to replicating a small art board onto a larger board?

 

- if you are a designer who handles a lot of these small text changes - how do you handle them? 

 

Thanks!

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well you currently have 8 tickets on a page and turn of/ on every ticket separately?

 

so this can be enhanced

 

save a single ticket and than use this document as a placed document (go to document > place, this will place the ticket-document into your page-document, it is not linked externally but embedded into the page document, you can then replicate/dublicate the placed document) to replicate, https://vimeo.com/110134439

 

or use symbols https://vimeo.com/182383520

 

you can then edit one instance and every of the 8 tickets on the page will change 

 

cheers

 

 

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