Adrian M

Appreciate the replies! Thank you! I just watched those videos and for the most part I am fairly confident I already had a decent understanding of the Export Persona. My initial post was written while I was frustrated. Let me try and better explain. In a nutshell: Using the Export Persona gives me slices and exports that are one pixel off but exporting from the Design Persona gives me the right dimensions. Would it be possible to export multiple artboards at a time from the Designer Persona? For more detail: I think the majority of the problems I was dealing with stem from the fact that I was working with an .AI I had imported. Even now though on a totally fixed file and with a clear head I made some additional artboards to test. Each at 1024x768px and placed at a whole number coordinate. Once I moved into the slice persona, each slice was automatically generated one pixel off. Which for a single slice isn't a problem, but when I have several slices I need to export, it becomes a problem that I can't depend on these slices to be accurately generated especially when I constantly need to be making more artboards. What I find additionally frustrating is that when I choose to export from the Designer Persona>File>Export, I don't run into this issue. I consistently exported files at the right dimensions from the Designer Persona which left me frustrated wondering why I couldn't just export multiple artboards at a time from the Designer Persona instead of having to continue messing with the Export Persona and slices. I have attached screen shots of my problem along with the file that was exported a pixel off. In the first screen you can see that my artboard dimensions are 1024x768, but in the 2nd screen, you can see that the generated slice is 1024x769. The exported PNG has the same error. Sorry if my initial post may have come off as hostile in any way and thank you again.

Hello and thank you for developing this software! I have been trying to transition from Illustrator since a friend introduced me to Affinity Designer back in 2016 and that transition gets easier with every update. However there is one major issue that has been making this transition very painful. Exporting multiple artboards is just extremely cumbersome and tedious. Maybe I just don't have a complete grasp of Designer yet, but even now, a document I was just working on; I ran into so many issues and spent the last 3 hours trying to get my artboards exported and ended up having to redo my entire document and still kept running into multiple walls along the way. Finally after having all my alignments pixel perfect I still run into problems with my slices only automatically appearing on so many artboards and now I am stuck renaming several artboards after already having to add their slices in manually which was a chore since some of the art was still not pixel perfect. I incorrectly assumed the slice tool would snap to artboards, not the art being clipped by the artboards and then I still had to manually put in my scale multipliers for each slice one at a time and now I am about to rip my hair out as saving bunches of slices to their respective folders is hindered by needing to individually tick each slice I need in the right folder, then untick that bunch to manually tick the next batch. I think the solution I am asking for is to have an option from the File>Export window to either type in the artboards I need exported or the ability to easily and quickly select a batch of artboards with an option for scale factor or selection of DPI as well as a tick box for transparency and for each exported file to have the name of it's respective artboard. I can't understand why I can export an individual artboard at a time perfectly without having to have gone through all the headaches I mentioned in the previous paragraph but once I need to export multiple artboards it becomes such a titanic ordeal. I sincerely wish I could recommend Affinity Designer to my design partners and clients, but as long as exporting of multiple artboards is in this state, I just can't as something that takes a few clicks in illustrator requires a bunch of fine tuning and changing of individual values. I don't want to keep throwing money into the dumpster that is Adobe, but until exporting of artboards reaches the fast simplicity of Illustrator, my wallet will continue to have an ever burning hole in it. I am also sorry that this has to be my first post on this forum.