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when I try to print a "Document" instead of specific artboard, Designer prints parts of 2 artboards which are next to each other. Does anyone have the same problem?

I think it should select to print one by one artboard.

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It can't be said "by design" for anything not working as it should.

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4 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said:

It can't be said "by design" for anything not working as it should.

By design = as the developers intended it to work.

Not working as it should = some number of people think it should work differently.

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By design means that was how it was initially intended to work but you can still log an improvement request if you think it could be better.

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2 hours ago, R C-R said:

By design = as the developers intended it to work.

Not working as it should = some number of people think it should work differently.

Thank you very much for your explanation. :D

I don't think that it is intended to work as now. It should be a bug.

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I have a HP OfficeJet Pro 8620 printer and can select entire document or specific Artboards to print but I use Mac and my printer software is different.

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9 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

I have a HP OfficeJet Pro 8620 printer and can select entire document or specific Artboards to print but I use Mac and my printer software is different.

Never mind what OS and printer you use. I can too select the entire document or specific artboard, but when "document" is selected it is logical all artboards to be printed one-by-one.

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1 minute ago, Petar Petrenko said:

Never mind what OS and printer you use. I can too select the entire document or specific artboard, but when "document" is selected it is logical all artboards to be printed one-by-one.

I agree, and I can do that under my software, look at the first image, it states entire document and then shows 1 of 3 pages to print.

What printer do you have?

Can you print as you would expect from other design software?

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They can change "Document" with "All Artboards" which will allow all artboards to be printed one-by-one.

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1 hour ago, Petar Petrenko said:

They can change "Document" with "All Artboards" which will allow all artboards to be printed one-by-one.

I do not understand what you mean by this. Do you want all the artboards to be printed on one page or "one-by-one" on different pages?

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What is so difficult to understand? It is explained in the post above.

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11 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said:

What is so difficult to understand? It is explained in the post above.

No, it is not explained there or anywhere else what specifically you mean by "one-by-one" or how many pages you want that to include.

For example, both 20 artboards scaled to fit on a single printed page or 20 pages, each with a single artboard, could be interpreted as "one-by-one" print jobs.

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1 hour ago, Petar Petrenko said:

They can change "Document" with "All Artboards" which will allow all artboards to be printed one-by-one.

I'm qouting myself.

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Why should I print all artboards on one page? In that case I would create only one artboard and put all my drawings on it.

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56 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said:

Why should I print all artboards on one page? In that case I would create only one artboard and put all my drawings on it.

You might do that but others might not want to take the considerable amount of time it would take to convert an existing multi-artboard project into a single page one, just so they could print out a one page overview of the project for one or another reason. In fact, if memory serves, there have been a few questions asking about how to do exactly that.

But more to the point, as @firstdefence has already explained, it is possible to print out each artboard on a separate page. The method varies depending on the OS & the printer's options, so if you want help with yours it would be a good idea to mention what you are using because that does matter.

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10 minutes ago, R C-R said:

You might do that but others might not want to take the considerable amount of time it would take to convert an existing multi-artboard project into a single page one, just so they could print out a one page overview of the project for one or another reason. In fact, if memory serves, there have been a few questions asking about how to do exactly that.

But more to the point, as @firstdefence has already explained, it is possible to print out each artboard on a separate page. The method varies depending on the OS & the printer's options, so if you want help with yours it would be a good idea to mention what you are using because that does matter.

Nobody said that you need to convert multi-artboard into a single page. If you want everything to be printed on one page, you'll create one page, if not -- you'll create as many artboards as need it.

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6 hours ago, firstdefence said:

I have a HP OfficeJet Pro 8620 printer and can select entire document or specific Artboards to print but I use Mac and my printer software is different.

On Windows I can select any specific artboard, or "Document", but when choosing Document the Affinity Designer print dialog allows me to print only 1 page, and starts with a page outline that seems randomly positioned within my document, overlapping some of the artboards, as Petar showed initially. I can choose "fit to print" or "shrink to print" which will force all of the artboards onto a single page of output, but on Windows Affinity does not let me print to multiple pages as you can on Mac.

I would much prefer the Windows versions to work as your Mac version does :)

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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

I would much prefer the Windows versions to work as your Mac version does :)

I'd want that for you and Peter too, I'm going to see a windows user who has Affinity installed so might Highjack his PC for half an hour to see what I can work out. 

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4 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said:

Nobody said that you need to convert multi-artboard into a single page. If you want everything to be printed on one page, you'll create one page, if not -- you'll create as many artboards as need it.

The point is if someone wants multiple artboards and the ability to print them all on one page or on individual pages, then they are not going to want to create everything on one page or on one artboard.

 

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

On Windows I can select any specific artboard, or "Document", but when choosing Document the Affinity Designer print dialog allows me to print only 1 page, and starts with a page outline that seems randomly positioned within my document, overlapping some of the artboards, as Petar showed initially.

So if you click on "Properties" or just change the scale, you can't change anything that would change the position and/or number of pages that your Windows print driver will send to your printer?

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

I would much prefer the Windows versions to work as your Mac version does :)

It isn't the app that makes it work as it does on Macs. It is the printing system built into the OS, combined with the print driver(s), that does. That is true for both the Mac & Windows OS's, & that is because there is no consensus among printer manufacturers for any kind of unified standard for printer driver interfaces. That is also why there are so many complaints on the web about how complicated installing & configuring printer software so often is. Because there are no standards, it may be necessary to install a package of dozens of different drivers & supporting files just to support all or most of the printers from just one printer manufacturer. Canon does it one way; Epson an entirely different way, & so on.

Basically, printer support is still in the dark ages.

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1 hour ago, R C-R said:

So if you click on "Properties" or just change the scale, you can't change anything that would change the position and/or number of pages that your Windows print driver will send to your printer

No, I can't.

And I believe it is Affinity that's in control of what it sends to the Windows print subsystem, by the way, not just the printer driver.

After all, when a word processor app sends a multi-page document to the printer it's the app that does the pagination work, sets headers and footers, etc.

Similarly, I believe it's Affinity that's determining how many pages it's breaking the document into. 

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4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

And I believe it is Affinity that's in control of what it sends to the Windows print subsystem, by the way, not just the printer driver.

I am almost certain that is not true for Macs, at least not without doing a lot of elaborate coding to bypass the built-in print system. That would probably greatly compromise the security model the OS is built on because print jobs are not run in the user domain. I would be very surprised if it was much different for Windows.

14 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

After all, when a word processor app sends a multi-page document to the printer it's the app that does the pagination work, sets headers and footers, etc.

But it still sends the print job to the printer driver, which translates high level stuff like pagination into something the printer hardware can understand. As explained quite succinctly here drivers are what enables an operating system to communicate with hardware devices. That is why print drivers are required & why different printers require different drivers.

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