Pages¶

One document can hold up to 100 pages. Each page has its own artwork, its own background and its own output size. Think of them as tabs, or as slides if you're planning to present.

The Pages panel¶

Open it with Cmd+Alt+1.

Along the top: Add Page, Duplicate Page, Delete Page, and a page count. Below that, every page with a live thumbnail, its name and number.

From the Page menu¶

Delete Page is greyed out when there's only one page left, because a document with no pages would be a strange thing to own.

Output size¶

The canvas is infinite, so a page has no fixed size until you decide it needs one. Page ▸ Output Size… (Cmd+Alt+P) is where you decide.

Defaults are A4 portrait at 72 DPI.

The Automatic button throws all that away and goes back to "size the output to whatever artwork is actually on the page", which is the right answer most of the time. Set a fixed size when you're printing, or when a diagram has to drop into a document at an exact size.

Output size is per page, so a document can hold an A4 page and a wide slide side by side.

Export frames¶

If you only want part of a page to leave the app, select the objects you care about and choose Page ▸ Set Export Frame to Selection. Exports and prints of that page will use those bounds instead of the artwork bounds.

Page ▸ Clear Export Frame puts it back to automatic.

Sticky notes and index cards¶

Page ▸ Add Sticky Note and Page ▸ Add Index Card drop an annotation onto the current page. They're ordinary note objects — move, resize, restyle and type on them like anything else. You can switch a note between the two looks with the Annotation picker in the Shape Properties panel.

Backgrounds are per page¶

Each page carries its own background, so a document can mix a chalkboard, a napkin and plain white without complaint. See Backgrounds.

Presenting your pages¶

Cmd+Alt+Enter opens a clean full-screen window and steps through the pages with the arrow keys. See Presenting.