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over 8 years ago from Tony Gines, Señor Designer
You can basically emulate master pages using Symbols in Sketch.
Create the template you'd like to use as a master page on an artboard. Then group all of the objects, and turn the group into a symbol. Then lock the layer.
You can do this for as many master pages as you need. If you want to switch an artboard to a different master page, then select the symbol, and choose a different symbol from the symbols dropdown.
That's a good call. You'd end up having a different "master page" depending on the height of the page because of how symbols work right?
At this point I turn the header and footer into symbols and drop them in where they're needed. The more I've pondered this the more I think variable symbols would be 100% more functional than any sort of master page.
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+1 to master pages.