Option to import pages from PDF

[Art Plant]

Yes, I tried that already but it is not enough for our needs. I often want to resize placed pdf's  which is hard or impossible  to do with text broken into lines, I would like to work with actual look of placed graphics and usually, I don't want to be able to alter imported pdf's. 

[Thomas M. Braun]

On 9/6/2018 at 4:38 PM, TonyB said:

When you place a PDF then you can choose the page shown on the context toolbar at the top. If you want multiple pages then you should load(File Open) the PDF into Publisher and choose the pages you want. We don't currently have a insert PDF/Affinity document that will merge multiple pages yet but we might add it later.

 

 

Great, thanks. 

Additional question: When placing PDF’s in Affinity Publisher, I can’t manage to get rid of the transparent background. (PDF’s were created with AP, too). 

Is there any possibility to make the PDF files non-transparent after placing them? 
If not, do you know of any possibility to create PDF’s from publisher without a transparency? 

Both feature are very important for a professional layout program, I would think. 
If there is no solution yet, when will it come? 

Thanks for taking the time to answer. 

Thomas 

 

Addendum: 

I found a ”solution”, but it’s surely an improvised one. Before exporting your PDF from Affinity Publisher, put a white object the size of the page behind other objects on your page. The PDF will then not have a transparent background. 

Having said that, it still would be more than nice to have the option when exporting to pdf, and also when importing one. 
To establish itself as a true alternative to Adobe’s InDesign, I think AP must simply add such much-needed functions. 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Thomas M. Braun said:

I found a ”solution”, but it’s surely an improvised one. Before exporting your PDF from Affinity Publisher, put a white object the size of the page behind other objects on your page. The PDF will then not have a transparent background. 

It sounds as though you have your Publisher document set up to have a transparent background (established during File > New, or via Document Setup). Why not just turn that off? Then the page backgrounds are all white, automatically.

By the way, AP is Affinity Photo. (Hover over the underlined "AP" in the last sentence of your post.) Publisher is best abbreviated as APu, or not at all.

[woefi]

13 hours ago, Thomas M. Braun said:

When placing PDF’s in Affinity Publisher, I can’t manage to get rid of the transparent background.

You could assign a white fill to the picture frame containing the placed PDF/Image or AfPub-File. Make sure you check the option for picture frames to keep its own fill: