[Link instead of embedding image]

On 12/21/2018 at 2:49 PM, walt.farrell said:

Yes, I'm sure. I believe, though, that subsequent to that post the Affinity team confirmed that Designer and Photo do not support linking, and those buttons are not supposed to be present in the UI for either 1.6 or 1.7. Linking is only a Publisher function.

For what it's worth I can confirm that the the button is there and it works, Mac, AD 1.7.0. All instances of linked images update automatically when you next open the document.
However I don't see a preference setting to make linking the default.

[Designer – linking images rather than embedding]

On 6/10/2019 at 12:26 PM, R C-R said:

AFAIK, linking is a feature only of Affinity Publisher, currently still in beta but due for release on or about June 19.

Well, I wasn't imagining it…  it works exactly as Walt describes: 

1. select image
2. press the "Replace Image" button in the toolbar
3. in the file dialog click "Options" and choose to embed instead of linking

I just tried it and the file size plummeted as expected.
What I can't find anywhere though is a setting in preferences to make linking the default.

Anyway it looks like we're getting there 

This is on Mac, AD 1.7.0

[Designer – linking images rather than embedding]

I think I came across a thread here somewhere that stated the ability to link images was implemented in beta 1.7.x

Now 1.7 is out but I can't find it anywhere. Am I missing something obvious or did this rather useful feature not make it?
If not are there any plans to make this happen soon?

I generally like Designer a lot, but having the ability to just link images and thereby keeping file sizes down would be great.
Freehand had this feature since the early 90s