gr8rck Posted July 7, 2019 Posted July 7, 2019 Hi, What is everyone doing for the best way of creating a master page (header, footer, etc...) in designer that can be used on all art boards and can be updated so that any changes are seen across all art boards? I'm referring more to additional elements being added versus the styling. For example: text content changes to the footer showing across all boards. Thanks, Ryan. Quote
firstdefence Posted July 7, 2019 Posted July 7, 2019 Use symbols for mass changes to objects across all artboards. Make a document with all the elements you need on a single artboard and save it, this can be your "Template" when you want to create a document open the "Template" and Save As... You can then start to add to your new document, so to make more Artboards with the symbol objects you want, duplicate the first Artboard and work on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc and keep duplicating the 1st Artboard as needed. I'm sure other's will have better idea's but this is what I would probably do. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
gr8rck Posted July 7, 2019 Author Posted July 7, 2019 What if i need to go back and make a change to the 'master' Artboard such as add an element or text? I don't think those changes will replicate across all boards unless its just a style change. Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 7, 2019 Posted July 7, 2019 For what you're describing, Publisher and Pages seems more appropriate than Designer and Artboards. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
gr8rck Posted July 7, 2019 Author Posted July 7, 2019 I agree, the pages and master pages are great in publisher but if you try and 'edit in designer' to export assets then there is no way to get back to publisher. I also see where designer does not open the multiple pages that were created from the publisher file. If designer had master artboards and/or pages then that would be great. I'll run my suggestion by them. Thanks, Ryan. Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 7, 2019 Posted July 7, 2019 6 minutes ago, gr8rck said: agree, the pages and master pages are great in publisher but if you try and 'edit in designer' to export assets then there is no way to get back to publisher. I also see where designer does not open the multiple pages that were created from the publisher file. Don't "Edit in Designer". Just switch to the Designer Persona in Publisher. Much simpler. And, in 1.7.2, Designer gains the "Edit in Publisher" function. Without that, you're right that it's difficult to get back. If you do "Edit in Designer" it has access to all the Publisher pages. You navigate using the page navigator on the lower left of the screen, next to the Status bar. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
gr8rck Posted July 7, 2019 Author Posted July 7, 2019 Awesome discovery. That seems to solve my issues. Thanks for the guidance! Ryan. walt.farrell 1 Quote
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