Export sliced image

[ygoe]

I have read the manual but I don't get it. I've got a fullpage screenshot of a website and need to slice it into multiple parts to save it in a multipage PDF document. How can I do that with Affinity Photo? If that doesn't work, I'd also accept instructions for Photoshop CS6. All on Windows 10.

[Gabe]

Hi @ygoe,

 

You cannot export as Multipage PDF. Each slice will be exported on its own pdf file. 

 

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[ygoe]

Okay, so how can I do that? I can only export the full image, not any part of it.

[Gabe]

You can go into Export persona and use the slice tool. Have a look here: 

 

 

[Alfred]

9 minutes ago, GabrielM said:

You cannot export as Multipage PDF. Each slice will be exported on its own pdf file.

 

Can’t you work around that quite easily by creating selections instead of slices? If you duplicate each selection, the new copies will be on their own layers and you can then simply delete the original screenshot layer and export the remaining layers to give you a multipage PDF file with a single layer on each page.

[ygoe]

7 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Can’t you work around that quite easily by creating selections instead of slices? If you duplicate each selection, the new copies will be on their own layers and you can then simply delete the original screenshot layer and export the remaining layers to give you a multipage PDF file with a single layer on each page.

I don't know, can I?

Actually I thought I'd just draw some slice lines across the full image and have it sliced gaplessly, then export each fragment as a separate file, or even better for PDF format, in a separate page. But I can merge PDF documents into one with online tools so that's not too bad for now.

[Gabe]

14 minutes ago, Alfred said:

 

Can’t you work around that quite easily by creating selections instead of slices? If you duplicate a selection, the new copy will be on its own layer and you can then simply delete the original screenshot layer and export the remaining layers to give you a multipage PDF file with a single layer on each page.

I'm afraid that's just going to create a single page pdf with several layers. You cannot export multipage pdf from Photo. You can, however, do it with artboards in Designer. Each artboard will create a page in a multipage (single) pdf file. 

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, GabrielM said:

You cannot export multipage pdf from Photo. You can, however, do it with artboards in Designer.

 

Thanks, Gabe. I was obviously thinking of the artboards thing.

 

Apologies for any confusion caused! 

[ygoe]

So could I slice an image artboard with Designer?

I've already completed my task by exporting each slice as separate PDF and merge them afterwards. But it might be good to know for the future.

[Gabe]

In Designer, Each artboard will be exported as a page inside a multi-page pdf. I.e one project with 3 artboards will export as one pdf with 3 pages. 

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, GabrielM said:

In Designer, Each artboard will be exported as a page inside a multi-page pdf. I.e one project with 3 artboards will export as one pdf with 3 pages. 

 

It should be noted that the first page in the PDF file will be from the artboard at the bottom of the layer stack, not the top (and then the artboard which is second from the bottom will give you the second page of the PDF, and so on).

[ygoe]

Sure, I've done that, but I still have a single image as source material. The artboard is now 1 page wide and 3 pages tall. It needs to be exported in three separate parts that can be pages. Exporting it as a single page would scale it down to 1/3 page width and unreadable size.

This is the issue with converting a single flow of a web page into separate pages for a PDF format (and finally print).

PS: Yeah, the reverse print order is also an annoying thing, but I could live with it so far.

[walt.farrell]

If you work in Designer, you could manually slice your image via selections, and copy each selection to its own artboard. Then delete the original image, leaving you with 3 artboards. Then File->Export will give you a 3-page PDF. Just make sure the artboard layer order is correct. Page 3 on top, then page 2, then page 3, as Alfred mentioned.