Pages
A document is a stack of pages, and every page has a fixed size of its own — an A4 sheet, an Instagram post, a slide, any size you type. Everything you add sits on a page, and the rulers measure it from the page's top-left corner.
The pages panel
| Device | Where the pages are |
|---|---|
| Mac & iPad | A numbered list on the left. The pages button in the top bar shows and hides it, or ⇧⌘1. |
| iPhone | A strip of thumbnails just above the bottom bar. The small chevron hides it and brings it back. |
| iPhone Duo | The same strip above the bar when folded; unfolded, it runs down the leading edge as a column. |
A document with more than one page opens with the pages showing. On iPhone the strip gets out of the way by itself: it leaves while you draw, fades while the keyboard is up, and hides when you zoom in past three times the fitted page — zoom back out and it returns, unless you toggled it in between.
Adding, duplicating, deleting
- Tap a thumbnail to go to that page. The page you are on has an accent outline.
- Add a page with the + tile at the end of the panel — it is shaped like the last page — or ⇧⌘N. The new page goes right after the one you are on and copies its size, background, tint and grid.
- Duplicate a page from its menu, or ⇧⌘D for the page you are on. The copy lands right after the original, every element already linked to its original for Magic Move.
- The page menu — right-click a thumbnail, or long-press it on touch — holds Duplicate, Export Page and Delete. Export Page opens the export sheet with just that page. The last page left can't be deleted.
- Reorder by dragging a thumbnail up or down, on Mac and iPad. The phone strip has no drag.
- Everything here is undoable, and undo takes you back to the page it changed. Pages have no names: the list on Mac and iPad numbers them.
Page settings
With nothing selected, the Design tab of the inspector shows the page you are on.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Page › Size | Opens Resize Page: Portrait, Square or Landscape, width and height in pixels from 4 to 4096, and Resize Proportionally. It changes only this page, and what is on it keeps its size and place. |
| Animations | Animate Pages, the Magic Move timeline. It shows once the document has two or more pages. |
| Background | The colour of the page. |
| Tint | The page's accent colour. New parts from Elements and Quick search, and Magic AI, use it; elements already on the page keep their colours. |
| Show grid | A grid over the page. It follows the zoom level, so it stays readable. |
| Show info | Width × height while you resize, the angle while you rotate. |
| Transform preview | A faint ghost of a photo where it started while you resize or rotate it, at 100% zoom or above. |
| Toolbar | The small toolbar above the selection: Off, Auto (it fades after a few seconds and comes back when the selection moves or you zoom) or Always, the default. |
| Rulers | Off, Auto (the default: they fade while nothing moves) or Always. They mark where the selection's edges fall, and step away when you zoom far out. |
Size, Background, Tint and Show grid belong to the page. Show info, Transform preview, Toolbar and Rulers are yours: they apply to every document.
On iPhone the page settings follow the creation tools in the bottom bar, with nothing selected: Elements (the layers list), Animate (with two or more pages), Paste (when something is copied), Size, Color, Grid, Rulers, Preview and Toolbar. Tint and Show info are on Mac and iPad only.
Zoom and moving around
| Action | Mac | iPad & iPhone |
|---|---|---|
| Zoom in · out | ⌘ = ⌘ − | Pinch — the zoom level shows at the top while you pinch |
| Zoom with a mouse | ⌥ scroll | — |
| Actual size | ⌘ 0 | Pinch |
| Fit the page | ⌥ ⌘ 0 | Pinch |
| Pan | Scroll | Drag empty space |
- Zoom runs from 10% to 600%. ⌘= and ⌘− step by 50%, and the Mac toolbar has a zoom slider. Actual Size and Fit Page are in the View menu.
- A document always opens fitted to its page, on page 1 — or on the page you last viewed, with Settings › Restore last viewed page.
- Switching pages keeps your view. Fitted, the next page is fitted too; zoomed in, the same zoom and the same spot carry over to it.
Grid, guides and snapping
- The grid is for your eyes only: it follows the zoom level, and nothing snaps to it.
- Snapping & guides, in Settings and on from the start: drag anything and it snaps to the edges, centres, spacing and sizes of the elements around it and of its parent. Elements at the top level of the page also snap to the page's edges and its centre. Hold ⌘ to skip the snapping for one drag; rotated elements don't snap.
- Nudge with the arrow keys — 1 pt, or 10 pt with ⇧ — and the same guides light up, without snapping.
- New elements land on the page. Whatever you add at the top level is placed inside the page's edges.