Side by Side Views?

[rpmichael]

It's great to be able to double click an image, which then opens in a new tab, then to add text or whatever on top of that image then go back to the original tab (page layout) and find that the text and image are as one and can be moved around the page as one, but is there a way to view the two tabs side by side so you can edit the image with the text while watching the result on the original page layout, so for instance you can line up the text with other objects on the original page?

[Old Bruce]

I have to ask. Why not just put the text on the original page? Seems like the simplest solution.

[rpmichael]

It just seems to me to be a much cleaner way to work as the image and the text will only show up as a single layer rather than having numerous sub layers, plus when you are working with many elements on a single page it just easier to find things with less layers. Just curious to know if it was possible to view both the page layout and the individual graphic your were working on at the same time.

[Jim_A]

When you have multiple tabs open, go to Window > Separated Mode.

In Separated Mode you can also use View > New View to see multiple windows at the same time.

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Jim_A said:

When you have multiple tabs open, go to Window > Separated Mode.

In Separated Mode you can also use View > New View to see multiple windows at the same time.

Or, on Windows, you can drag the tabs to get floating windows and position them as you want, or use Window > Float or Window > Float All.

However, I don't think this will provide quite what @rpmichael wants.  Actually, it might work just fine, as long as it only has to work with .pdf, .afdesign, .afphoto, .eps, or .svg embedded documents. As I mention below, it doesn't work with image files.

 

[walt.farrell]

17 hours ago, rpmichael said:

It's great to be able to double click an image, which then opens in a new tab, then to add text or whatever on top of that image then go back to the original tab (page layout) and find that the text and image are as one and can be moved around the page as one, but is there a way to view the two tabs side by side so you can edit the image with the text while watching the result on the original page layout, so for instance you can line up the text with other objects on the original page?

Just one point of clarification. That doesn't work for images. You can't double-click an image and have it open in a new tab. That only works with embedded documents that you have Placed (.pdf, .afphoto, .afdesign, .svg, .eps). It won't work with .tiff, .jpg, .png, etc.

 

[fde101]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

That doesn't work for images. You can't double-click an image and have it open in a new tab.

It would be nice to have an option (context menu?) to convert an image or pixel layer into an embedded afphoto document containing that layer to allow for enhancing it in that manner.

[Jim_A]

5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Or, on Windows, you can drag the tabs to get floating windows and position them as you want, or use Window > Float or Window > Float All.

Looking forward to seeing that in the Mac version. It would be intuitive to drag a tab and have it float as a new window.

 

23 hours ago, rpmichael said:

It's great to be able to double click an image, which then opens in a new tab....

The only way I can get an image to open in a separate window is to double click it in the Layers panel. Maybe there's another way?

Once the image is open then View > New View gets a second window.

The weird thing is that somehow I got two tabs (main page view and image view) to open by double clicking, but I can't reproduce it.

[walt.farrell]

23 minutes ago, Jim_A said:

Looking forward to seeing that in the Mac version. It would be intuitive to drag a tab and have it float as a new window.

I'm not sure that anything like that is coming to Mac, but I'll admit that as I'm a Windows user I haven't paid any attention to the feature requests in that area for Mac.