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I would do a "Save as..." delete all the pages (Not the Masters because those are what we want preserved) and import the PDF into that.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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25 minutes ago, Tyson of the Northwest said:

So I have a document that just has the master pages, I am not seeing a way to import the contents of the PDF into the document.  I have tried dragging the file to the Pages sidebar and nothing happens.  Am I blind or just not seeing the import option?

Ahh, I think I spoke before actually thinking about what you asked. I shall think on this, do not wait up though.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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I don't think there is a way to copy master pages from one document to  another today, nor do I know if it's planned (but it would be nice).

(I'm not even sure there's a way to copy document pages from one .afpub  document to another.)

By the way, what are the "merge limits" referred to in the initial post in this topic?

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14 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

By the way, what are the "merge limits" referred to in the initial post in this topic?

There is a merge limit in that there is no way to merge content into the publication. I am designing decks of cards, the contents of each card is in a spreadsheet, so far there is not a way to give Affinity Publisher my spreadsheet and have it generate a page for each row.  So now I am merging it in MS Publisher, exporting it as a PDF, then importing it into Affinity Publisher. At least until our programmer puts together a script to generate the PDF from the spreadsheet.

At this point my workflow is: 

  1. Create the template in MS Publisher
  2. Merge the spreadsheet
  3. Export the PDF
  4. Import the PDF into Affinity Publisher
  5. Page settings/dpi/etc.
  6. Design the Master Page
  7. Set style for each text box in each card
  8. Proof each card

As opposed to the inDesign workflow of:

  1. Design the master page
  2. Design the merge template with style set for each text box in the template once 
  3. Give inDesign the spreadsheet
  4. Proof each card. 

The longer term solution looks like it will be replace parts 1-3 with a custom coded script to generate the PDF according to a programmed template. Which will take a bit more time to set up, but should simplify the process, but won't speed it up much because of step 7 & 8.

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