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cfessler
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transfer/copy layer structure between documents

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Hi there, its me again :-)

I am just wondering is there a way to easily transfer or copy many layers (not necessarily their contents) between two documents?

Any idea of an easy workaround? i was thinking about first merging the docs and keep the layers then deleting the layers content. But there might be a more easy way? (especially it its hard because at present my source doc has many data in the layers...)

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Christoph
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Re: transfer/copy layer structure between documents

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Hi, cfessler

The easiest way to accomplish this at the moment, since copying the layers themselves is not possible, would be to use the open both documents and make use of the thumbnails pane. Simply dragging a page from any document to another, will duplicate the layers in the source file as well, resulting in the output you are looking for. Then you simply need to delete the copied page (assuming you do not want it). See my Gif animating the situation:
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Re: transfer/copy layer structure between documents

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it works, great!! :-)
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transfer/copy layer structure between documents

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