Glyphs Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 When you apply a Master to a page, all the Master's items are placed in a layers group at the bottom of the layers palette. Is there also a way to create a Master so that some items are also placed automatically at the top of the layers palette in each page? Or in other words, is there a way to create a Master so that it generates several layers groups for each page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Not at this time. This has been discussed previously in various other threads, under the guise of "global layers". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Look at this. Sample Publisher file attached too. sample.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyphs Posted April 16, 2019 Author Share Posted April 16, 2019 On 4/15/2019 at 5:21 PM, mac_heibu said: Look at this. Sample Publisher file attached too. sample.afpub Thanks! I didn't notice the "Replace existing" option in the Apply Master's dialog. It's going to make me save a lot of time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebez71 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 But how keep the master pages always on top? I put the page numbers in the master page, and applied to all the pages of the document, when in the page I insert text, drawing or images these numbers end up under the new elements, and I have to rearrange them manually, dragging the layer numbers up. I think it would be better to have master layers for the master page, so you can keep these elements that must be always on top (or below) the new elements in the right order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebez71 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 OK, but you have to do it manually. How can do it if you have 300 pages for example? Page by page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 1 hour ago, bebez71 said: How can do it if you have 300 pages for example? Page by page? Currently, I believe that is the case. This is a limitation that will obviously need to be addressed, though it might not be until a future version of the product depending on how Serif is prioritizing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 4 hours ago, bebez71 said: I put the page numbers in the master page, and applied to all the pages of the document, when in the page I insert text, drawing or images these numbers end up under the new elements, and I have to rearrange them manually, dragging the layer numbers up. While it might be nice to have the function we're talking about, I gave a hard time thinking of a situation where I would want information like page numbers overlaying text or images on a page. Wouldn't you get better results visually if you created the text or images in locations that don't overlap the page numbers? If you're overlapping them it seems to me that you have a page design and layout problem to resolve, not a functional problem. Quote -- 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...
bebez71 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Sorry, but you never see a layout like this, with page numbers on photos? walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 7 minutes ago, bebez71 said: Sorry, but you never see a layout like this, with page numbers on photos? No, I haven't. Thanks for the example. Quote -- 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...
bebez71 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 No problem, you're welcome. Graphic industry is very large world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 21 hours ago, bebez71 said: OK, but you have to do it manually. How can do it if you have 300 pages for example? Page by page? @bebez71 To move a Master Page to top of layers panel on all pages 1. Goto first page with the master attached 2. In layers panel select the Master Page 3. Right Click & select Edit Linked 4. Layer > Arrange > Move to Front 5. Click Finish button at top of screen Note: In step 4 above I would have expected dragging the master to the top of the layers panel to do the same thing but I got unpredictable results, so dont do it that way CanRau, bebez71 and Lounis 2 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 1 hour ago, carl123 said: In step 4 above I would have expected dragging the master to the top of the layers panel to do the same thing I would have expected that too, Carl. The fact that you got different results should probably be reported as a bug. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebez71 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Thanks Carl, it's not really intuitive, but it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 3 hours ago, Alfred said: I would have expected that too, Carl. The fact that you got different results should probably be reported as a bug. Not sure if it is a bug When you drag the Master Page Layer (MPL) to the top of the stack you get a history entry called Move When you use Layer > Arrange > Move to Front to move the MPL to the top of the stack you get a history entry called Move nodes to top So it's possible these are 2 separate actions and it's working like it should What is a bug though is if after you pressed the Finish button you go back to the History entry just before Edit Linked then only the MPL on the current page is returned to the bottom of the layer stack. All other pages still show the MPL as being at the top of the stack. Alfred and walt.farrell 1 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebez71 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 I tried again, and it doesn't work. I had not checked all the pages. The shift of the level occurs only on the selected page. To make it work you have to select all the pages and then follow the carl123 infos from point 2 to point 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, bebez71 said: The shift of the level occurs only on the selected page. To make it work you have to select all the pages and then follow the carl123 infos from point 2 to point 5. Are you sure as I did not have to do that and I tested it on a 10 page document I only needed to select one page, run steps 1-5 above and all Master Page Layers where moved to the top on all the 10 pages Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebez71 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) You're right, I made a mistake. If I use the Layer > Arrange > Move to Front it works, but if you use (ant thats my mistake) the button it doesn't work. Edit: Sorry again, It works also with the button. I don't know why, but I have different results every time.... Edited April 30, 2019 by bebez71 Change Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 20 hours ago, bebez71 said: Sorry, but you never see a layout like this, with page numbers on photos? If you expect to have photos like that on lots of pages, consider also placing a photo frame on a master page such that the page number field is above the frame. Then you can populate the frame for each document page and the master page itself will take care of the layering. CanRau and walt.farrell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebez71 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Yes I can, it's another way to do it. I'm probably doing too many comparisons between the software I'm using (ID), where I work almost automatically and Affinity Publisher. As with all the new softwares, you need to find the right approach for your method and type of work. fde101 and CanRau 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebez71 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Without opening another topic on the master pages, I have another question, is there a way to know which master page is applied to a certain page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Hover over the page in the Pages panel and it show pop-up which master is applied bebez71 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebez71 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 OK, it may be fine, but I was thinking of something visually more immediate. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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