Tom Schülke Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Hi, I have Problems to reorganise Masterpages. I wanted to reorganise the Order by moving the Masterpages per drag and drop up and down.. this doesnt work as far as i can see.. Does anyone know a way to do this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Any Master Pages which have been applied to a page can be re-ordered using the Layers panel. I don't think the Master Pages in the Master Pages panel can be moved. Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 All right Mick Rose, I have some Template Files here, my company is using for Beamer Presentations for example.. Here very often, differing Pages that are predefined have to be loaded, and this is done via the Masterpages Pannel inside of Indesign... you finde here some 30 Differing Pages, that you can apply per drag and drop to your Presentation indsingn file.. to be able to change order would be very appreciated. which in indesign is possible . Michail and Wosven 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 I agree that re-ordering Master Pages in the panel would be very useful sometimes. Why don't you put it as a feature request? Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 18 hours ago, MickRose said: I agree that re-ordering Master Pages in the panel would be very useful sometimes. Why don't you put it as a feature request? It´s done... also some further Suggestions for this.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 In the meantime maybe you could store the various Master Pages contents as Assets. These could be re-ordered and exported/imported. Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 Yes maybe this makes Sense, as i also wrote as a side notice in my suggestion... my ideas here are not polished... but maybe a starting point for improvements... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 - Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 hi haakoo , What exactly would this do.. Can i embedd and linke single pages of another publisher file ? One of the problems i would like to solve, would be the ability, to select single pages, i could use in my new presentation, a way to pic up what i need and drop it to my new document .. a sort of libary for single pages.. could i do something comparable with your aproach ? its not about single images, but about whole pages and their perfectly constructed layout, all Text, Styles images and tables.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 2 minutes ago, Tom Schülke said: hi haakoo , What exactly would this do.. Can i embedd and linke single pages of another publisher file ? One of the problems i would like to solve, would be the ability, to select single pages, i could use in my new presentation, a way to pic up what i need and drop it to my new document .. a sort of libary for single pages.. could i do something comparable with your aproach ? its not about single images, but about whole pages and their perfectly constructed layout, all Text, Styles images and tables.... Here´s an example of what people in my company construct.. obove, dozens of masterpages also used as a storage for whole pages below the real presentation, which cherry picked the needed conted from the masterpages. so you can change your presentaions based on predefined whole pages.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 - Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 Hi haakoo.. Ill have a look into this... sounds like something useful... i tried to load your File, but it is corrupt so i cant open it thank you so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 Hi Haakoo, Where can i save the publisher file as a template ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 3 minutes ago, Tom Schülke said: i tried to load your File, but it is corrupt so i cant open it His file opened fine for me, using .221, but as he made it with .227 it's probably best opened in that new beta release. 1 minute ago, Tom Schülke said: Where can i save the publisher file as a template ? Wherever you want to, just as with any other templates you care to make today. At this point a Publisher template is simply a file that you create somewhere, and reuse when you need it. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 thank you Walt. farrell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tom Schülke Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 allright... it´s somewhat useful.... advantage over storring different optional Pages as content inside of the Masters area of the Pages pannel is, that the master pannel doesnt get so overloaded with dozenz of pages... But !! I get no chance to preview, what the page looks like, befor i switch from the dropdown to another page of this embeded file.. So this is fine somehow. But still doesnt reach the aim, to give to my architects a way to fast reorganize their presentation, while getting visual feedback and hold all options easy in one file.. maybe something as the assetsmenue with previews of the optonal pages would do this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 1 hour ago, Tom Schülke said: allright... it´s somewhat useful.... advantage over storring different optional Pages as content inside of the Masters area of the Pages pannel is, that the master pannel doesnt get so overloaded with dozenz of pages... But !! I get no chance to preview, what the page looks like, befor i switch from the dropdown to another page of this embeded file.. So this is fine somehow. But still doesnt reach the aim, to give to my architects a way to fast reorganize their presentation, while getting visual feedback and hold all options easy in one file.. maybe something as the assetsmenue with previews of the optonal pages would do this ? Hi @Tom Schülke, I follow your project with interest because it puts APub to a real test It is a different task from print publishing but, still, it is publishing. And eventually I hope APub will be of great use for your project, too. My thought on your use of Masterpages and content is, why do you use Masterpages as some kind of asset library? You could as well have all your content pages as regular pages in one document. The pages that become part of the presentation get moved and sorted to the front of the document. As a visual indicator between the main presentation and the stock of content pages you could place unicoloured pages with a huge headline describing the content of the following pages. That way you have some sort of grouping that you can read when zoomed out. The advantage would be that you can drag and drop pages around as you need them. Masterpages themselfs are just used for their original purpous with master page elements, but not with content elements for the presentation. Just a thought. Cheers, d. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Schülke Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 Hi Thank you dominik. You are right.. This somewhat strage Structure results of the pure replication of the Indesign Documents, the Public relations appartment has thrown to me.. I on my own are part of the iT Team (The years befor i was a 3D specialist for Architectural Presentations), and i have to dig into new and potentialy helpful software, that in the future could ease the pain, and also spare money, if possible.. thats why i look deep into affintiy for our 600 Employee company.. this Said, i am deeper in Affinity as anyone here (esp. in Photo, becaus Potosop was part of my dayly work the years ago..) but i am at no means a specialist in Designing Text, Layout Books, ore using Indesing... The PR Team on the other hand doesnt understand Publisher and doesnt want to understand it as long, as we cant prove its worth it... So i have to learn each and every day... which makes fun.... present the results .... and when a new software gets rated as worthy... we will lift the hammer... So... your suggestions are totaly welcome.. because i only in this first step recreated what the PR Appartment maybe in an bad attemp has produced... i dintnt question it at this moment.. but that will be the next stepp.. So your approach sounds logical.. after reproducing this monstrous document.. ill try your attemp. Independend of this.. i allready can see many things that could be improved in publisher or in photo... so hopefully serif listens to us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 2 hours ago, Tom Schülke said: Hi Thank you dominik. You are right.. This somewhat strage Structure results of the pure replication of the Indesign Documents, the Public relations appartment has thrown to me.. I on my own are part of the iT Team (The years befor i was a 3D specialist for Architectural Presentations), and i have to dig into new and potentialy helpful software, that in the future could ease the pain, and also spare money, if possible.. thats why i look deep into affintiy for our 600 Employee company.. this Said, i am deeper in Affinity as anyone here (esp. in Photo, becaus Potosop was part of my dayly work the years ago..) but i am at no means a specialist in Designing Text, Layout Books, ore using Indesing... The PR Team on the other hand doesnt understand Publisher and doesnt want to understand it as long, as we cant prove its worth it... So i have to learn each and every day... which makes fun.... present the results .... and when a new software gets rated as worthy... we will lift the hammer... So... your suggestions are totaly welcome.. because i only in this first step recreated what the PR Appartment maybe in an bad attemp has produced... i dintnt question it at this moment.. but that will be the next stepp.. So your approach sounds logical.. after reproducing this monstrous document.. ill try your attemp. Independend of this.. i allready can see many things that could be improved in publisher or in photo... so hopefully serif listens to us... Hi @Tom Schülke, very interesting and glad that you see some value in this idea. I'm looking forward on hearing (reading) on your experiences I am sure Serif is listening. d. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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