Layers in Affinity Publisher

[P e t e]

Hi

 

 

Are layers in Affinity Publisher comparable to layers in PagePlus X9  ?

In Affinity Publisher, I find myself fighting with layers, whereas in PagePlus it seemed very intuitive.

 

Can you enable / disable layer printing in Affinity Publisher? (as you could in PagePlus X9)

Simple new document. 3 rectangles. create new layer. Drag a rectangle into the layer. Affinity Publisher had a tendency to hang at this point.  Had to crash it.  Did this 4 times in a row.

Then same operation worked, and rectangle moved into the layer, but appeared invisible on the main document. had the tick to show visibility. The icon had the correct colour and there was an outline. I could drag it out of the layer and visibility returned.  This behaviour is SO different from PPX9 which might be intentional and I might be missing all sorts of clever stuff. But hugely frustrating when it all seems so counter-intuitive. 

[ rant over ! ]

 

Thanks in advance for any pointers

Pete

 

 

 

 

 

[stokerg]

On 7/5/2019 at 6:52 PM, P e t e said:

Can you enable / disable layer printing in Affinity Publisher? (as you could in PagePlus X9)

 

If you Untick the layer, the items on that layer won't be printed.

On 7/5/2019 at 6:52 PM, P e t e said:

Simple new document. 3 rectangles. create new layer. Drag a rectangle into the layer. Affinity Publisher had a tendency to hang at this point.  Had to crash it.  Did this 4 times in a row.

Have had this crash here when trying the same thing.  

On 7/5/2019 at 6:52 PM, P e t e said:

Then same operation worked, and rectangle moved into the layer, but appeared invisible on the main document. had the tick to show visibility.

It sounds like the layer the rectangle had been added to had been unticked, that's when items would appear invisible on that layer.