Merge Affinity Publisher Documents

[MitchAg]

Is there a way to merge two Affinity Publisher documents together? Or copy and paste pages between docs?

I have two people working on separate parts of a project and would like to bring them all together at the end. Is this possible? Or will collaboration be a feature implemented soon?

[Dan C]

Hi MitchAg,

Welcome to the forums

Unfortunately there's no dedicated 'merge' options, however you can certainly copy and paste layers from one document to another without losing formatting etc!

9 hours ago, MitchAg said:

will collaboration be a feature implemented soon?

We don't have any plans for this currently, I'd recommend posting this in our Feedback section of the forums for our devs to see and consider

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[MitchAg]

 

 

 

 

 

25 minutes ago, Dan C said:

you can certainly copy and paste layers from one document to another without losing formatting etc!

I'll try this out and see how I go, it may work for me but I'll definitely post on the feedback section! 

2 minutes ago, haakoo said:

But you can link/embed them into one 

Thanks for that, can you explain how you do this, please?

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[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, haakoo said:

But you can link/embed them into one 

Yes, but only 1 page of the linked/embedded document will be visible in the document you place it into. If you need to see several pages, you would need to place it multiple times.

 

[walt.farrell]

10 hours ago, MitchAg said:

I have two people working on separate parts of a project and would like to bring them all together at the end.

At this point your easiest approach might be to have them work in Word or LibreOffice, and save their work in .docx format.

Then you could import the .docx files into your .afpub document via File > Place. You would have some work to do with the text styles, but depending on exactly what kind of work they're doing it may be easier than trying to merge .afpub files.

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[walt.farrell]

11 minutes ago, haakoo said:

No,you can duplicate the page and choose a different page from the external file to show in the duplicated page

Interesting. Thanks, I hadn't thought of that simplification.

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