Hello Corel Community.
I seem to run into a bug with the Master Layers feature every now and then.
Basically I create 50 plus page documents that need to feature a Title Block on each page.
Every so often, I will save a document with a Title block on a master layer. When I reopen the document, the Title block will no longer be on the Master Layer, but instead, dispersed as a layer on each page of the document. Meaning, every page has the title block, but not through the master layer feature.
I'm not sure why this occurs.
I do down-save from x6 to x3 on occasion, as other coworkers with x3 need to access the file. But this is not necessarily happening all the time.
It seems as if it may just become corrupted and when occurrence happens, to build a new document. Was just curious if this happens much among the community.
Thanks!
reststopkirk said:I do down-save from x6 to x3 on occasion
I think this is probably the clue. There was a significant change in the layers structure between X3 and X4, so if your X6 document uses a master page layer feature that has no exact equivalent in X3, it might be necessary to copy the layer to individual pages.
Are you able to compare the layer structure of an X3 file with the problem and the actual X6 file that produced it?
Hello,
Thanks for the reply.
So I work with scale elevations in the Environmental Design Field of Graphic Design.
I have used the same layer structure. By layer structure I mean, objects and type to make up the Title block Master Layer.
As I work it out in my head, I almost can see Corel encountering a problem with the import, and to placing what is on the master layer on every page as a default action. The problem is, When I try to reset this by deleting the extra layers corel created, adding a new master layer with the Title block, it will do the same if I re-open at a later date...
I figure I must rebuild the document, I just hoped this issue would be a common bug with a resolution to not have to deal with rebuilding the 50 + page docs in the future...
If anyone else has encountered this issue, please do tell,
Thanks again
Those objects which should be on the master page -- are they currently on a layer of their own in the individual pages?
If they are, then it should be possible in X6 to open the object manager and drag the entire layer from one of the pages back to the master page. That leaves the problem of removing the surplus copies on the other pages, which can probably be acheived with a macro. This I think would probably be easier than rebuilding the document.
It may also be possible to do that if the relevant objects appear as a recognisable group on each page.
One further thought ... which may work if you are working in windows and it is configured to create restore points.
I will attach Images of the Object Manager...
Image 1 - What My "Title Block" master layer looks like when I create it.
Image 2 - What results when Corel corrupts, or opens doc incorrectly. The "Title Block" Master Layer is no longer available.
Image 3 - The contents of the original "Title Block" Master Layer dispersed on every page as a "Layer 2".
Again Any time I delete "Layer 2" from all the pages, and make a new version of my "Title Block" Master Layer, upon re-opening the file, it does the exact same thing. The "Title Block" Master Layer I created is no longer available, but dispersed as a "Layer 2" on every page.
Thanks for the replies.
One thing I notice from the object manager images is that in image 1 you have three objects on the master layer (text, a curve and a group) but in the other images where they appear on individual pages they have become a group of three objects.
This I can half-explain. If you select several items and group them, the result appears on the current layer. So if a page layer is selected and you group those master page items, that will move the group onto that layer on the current page. I am not convinced that is the best behaviour in the circumstances, but that is how it works currently. But this will not, on its own, duplicate those objects on to individual pages, so if this is the mechanism, there must be something else involved as well.
But if the mechanism I described is part of the problem, then I think you can prevent it happening again, by: