Farrar Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 Forgive what must be an absurd newbie question, but I've looked and searched and I can't seem to find how to merge files on Publisher. I could export the files as pdf's and then merge them that way at the very end of the process, but that seems like an unnecessary workaround. Surely there's some way to do this? Cheers. Loving this product overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Welcome to the forum Farrar. You can ‘merge’ one AFPUB file into another by using the “File → Place” function but I have no idea how stable this would be or how well it works. (This embeds the AFPUB into the other AFPUB in the same way as embedding an SVG, for example.) Might be best to keep that as an emergency-only thing though and not part of a standard workflow. As far as I know there’s no ‘real’ way to merge AFPUB documents at the moment but I’m sure it will come at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 1 hour ago, GarryP said: You can ‘merge’ one AFPUB file into another by using the “File → Place” function but I have no idea how stable this would be or how well it works. It works, and should be stable, but all it really lets you do is display 1 page of your choice from the input file in the output file. So it's not really a merge. Merging has definitely been requested as a new feature for Publisher, and I hope it will appear someday. 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 You can display – and edit – multiple pages by duplicating the layer onto other pages/spreads of the ‘recipient document’ and choosing a different page/spread of the ‘donor document’ via the Spread setting in the context toolbar. It seems to work okay but I’ve not used it myself in any real job so I couldn’t vouch for its usability. Also, when you double-click the embedded document you seem to be able to edit the whole embedded document and not just the page/spread you’ve placed, which looks like a nice way of doing things, but I don’t know what happens when the donor document is changed/saved outside of the recipient document. More experimentation is needed by whoever has the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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