Copy/Move Page to Different Document?

[A_B_C]

Just quickly: I couldn’t find an answer to this question by trying different forum searches. Is it possible to copy or move a page from one document to another? Along with all guides and stuff? How do you do that? 

Thank you,

Alex 

[Old Bruce]

Sadly, No.

Guides cannot be copied nor can margins.

You can Select All and copy to the clipboard and paste stuff like Text Frames and Picture Frames with content etc and it will paste into the centre of the New Document page.

[fde101]

it would be nice to be able to right-click in the pages and masters palettes to cut/copy/paste pages/masters.

[Fixx]

6 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

will paste into the centre of the New Document page

I think the original location keeps.

[Alfred]

I’m not on my Windows system right now (or I would have tried it myself!) but can’t you place another document in the current one?

[A_B_C]

Thank you, guys!

Oh, this is an important point. There must be a way to share pages, along with guides and stuff, directly between documents. If that isn’t a feature request already, please understand that I would love to have the mentioned option. 

Yes, Alfred, it is possible to place a document into another one, and the placed document will have its margins and guides, when double-clicked, but the margins and guides won’t “show through.” They won’t be active in the document where it has been placed. Hmm. 

[sportyguy209]

I have an Affinity Publisher document and would like to move multiple pages from another AP document or a pdf into it. It would be nice if I could drag a series of pages from one document into the other.

The only way I can see adding the pages is manually, one at a time. Am I missing an easier way?

Thanks

[taharvey]

This is disappointing. Very unMacOS like

I've got a problem now, because Publisher crashes all over the place. Trying to copy out the pages 1-by-1 until I can track down the problem. But no way to copy-paste

[kennymingt]

I think this is a very essential feature, specially for groups.

Not being able to just drag multiple pages from other documents into a final one is a setback for production. Copy and pasting one by one is tedious.

A document merge tool will also help.

Best,

[garrettm30]

12 hours ago, kennymingt said:

A document merge tool will also help.

You still cannot copy a page from the pages panel to paste into another document, but we have had a major improvement in 1.8 since this thread was started. You can right-click on a page in the Pages Studio and select "Add Pages from File…" Alternatively, you can use the menu item Document->Add Pages from File…

I think this is basically what you are looking for in a "document merge tool."

By the way, welcome to the forum!

[Aristocrates]

We're now on version 2, and there still doesn't seem to be a way to paste pages from one document to another (unless I'm missing something).

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, Aristocrates said:

We're now on version 2, and there still doesn't seem to be a way to paste pages from one document to another (unless I'm missing something).

No, but Add Pages from File is the intended way of doing that, and still works.

[Aristocrates]

On 1/18/2023 at 12:34 PM, walt.farrell said:

No, but Add Pages from File is the intended way of doing that, and still works.

Great, that works!  It would still be good for there to be a more intuitive copy and paste pages tool, but glad there's at least some way of achieving it.