A menu on three pages

A one-pager in ANVL used to be exactly that — one page, whatever you asked for. Now a menu, a price list or a sales sheet can run over several pages that belong to the same document, and you can add the next page whenever you need it.

Not everything you make is a presentation. A restaurant needs a menu. A consultancy needs a price list. A sales team needs a sheet to leave behind, and then a follow-up sheet that looks like it came from the same place. These are printed things, read on paper or as a PDF, and in ANVL they are one-pagers.

Until this week the name was also the limit. Ask for a menu on three pages and you got one page, with everything squeezed onto it. Ask to put a second page next to the first, and the chat rebuilt the only page there was instead.

Count the pages, then build them

Now the conversation counts the pages in what you ask for. A menu on three pages gives a proposal that says Build 3 pages, and the pages are laid out in turn.

The part that matters is how. Each page is designed with the pages already finished in front of it, so the typefaces, the background, the dividers and the way prices are written carry over. And the content is divided rather than repeated: the heading sits on the first page, and the following pages continue where it left off. Three pages of one menu, not three menus.

Add a page later

You rarely know at the start that the drinks need a page of their own. In the editor, write add a page with the drinks in the chat, or press the plus in the strip of thumbnails. The new page is built in the same visual language and with the same rules as the rest — a menu stays a menu.

Pages can be removed, redone and reordered the way slides can in a deck, and the export is one PDF with all of them.

A menu is not a pitch

One small fix went in alongside, and it is the reason the rest is reachable. The conversation used to turn a menu, a price list, a poster or an invitation into a presentation. Those now become one-pagers, the same as from the prompt box on Home. Since then, attaching a document and asking for a menu also gives you a menu, with the document's text as the content — the proposal says Menu, Poster or Invitation rather than the generic name.

Posts and newsletters are unchanged: a post with two images is a carousel, and a newsletter is one long page.

If you are already using ANVL for decks, this is the other half of the job — the things that get printed, handed over or pinned to a wall, built from the same brand kit and now as long as they need to be.