Pete123

I frequently need to create a multitude of social media ads in different formats. The export persona toghether with artboards do a great job, but my issue is that I need to create 50+ versions of each... and it becomes reaally tedious. With the continuous export option on the slices panel I can speed things up, but what would be really great is that a naming variable existed for the layer name. This way I could export hundreds of versions in a matter a few minutes, simply by turning layers on or off... The reason is that the continuous export option overwrites any existing file with the same name... I find myself re-entering an increasing number inside the file-name dialog, just to not overwrite my previous export. btw the other variables document name and filename don't seem to have any effect in the filename... for more context, I posted a question here :

It seems that the export persona might get me halfway, using the continuous export option... only one problem is the naming of the exported file. It seems that exported slices are simply overwritten... it would be usefull if a counter could be added in my case, and not overwrite the previous export. Inside the naming dialog, there are a few pre-defined variables to put inside the exported filename. Document name and Filename don't seem to do anything in my case. It would be great if there existed a variable called "layer name"... together with the continuous export option, that would really solve my problem. I guess this needs to go to feature requests...so I'll create a new feature request.

I'm facing the issue that I need to quickly turn around many social media ad's in various formats, story format, square format and a horizontal format. I'm looking for tips and tricks how to make this efficient and less labour intensive. At the moment, I have about 50 photos, each in a seperate layer, with a logo brand on the top layer. I'm using artboards for each format, and I can quickly copy all the layers between the artboards and change the framing where needed. Now, when it comes to export, it would be fantastic if I could batch process this somehow... For this document alone, with 3 artboards, I'm looking at 150 times selecting the export command... there has to be a better way ? In Affinity photo there is a function to batch process, but it seems not fit for this purpose, or is it ? The above is asked of me more and more frequently.. I'm on a mac, and primarily use designer for this, although I also have photo and publisher. I don't mind an elaborate setup, maybe involving external tools (automator, keyboard maestro), I just need to cut my time spent on this drastically. Any tips are very welcome, I'm sure many of you are facing similar issues...

I'm having the same problem... and tried all of the suggestions, but none seems to work. I don't work on documents that reside on the network. All my documents are local. I am connected to a network drive though when in the office, but obviously when I'm at a client, I don't have access to the office network anymore. Resetting recent documents, either in macos, or in the ctrl-reset dialog, does nothing for me, Affinity apps just hang and spit out the mentioned dialog every minute or so. I also tried clicking ok for 3 hours today, but in the end I gave up. I even tried to run Onyx and restarted the mac several times. I have recent documents set to 0 in macos, and inside affinity "Reopen documents on startup" is unchecked... I'm at a complete loss here, there is no reason why affinity applications need to access my network drive. Please Affinity, chime in here and help us out. I'd even welcome a brute force way of editing plist files or something unorthodox... ANY help is welcome. Edit : I just noticed that the ctrl-reset trick only seems to actually do something when the network drive is available. If not, the recent files list stays populated. It is also strange that there are 2 seperate recent files lists. One in the File menu, "Open recent" which seems to be handled by macos... and another seperate list inside the open / new document dialog. The latter needs to be reset with the ctrl-reset dialog, but as said, this only empties the list when the network drive is actually available... back to square one. So when working at a clients place I need to remind myself to bring the nas... even though I only work on local documents...

I hadn't thought of playing with different alignment methods. Thanks so much, this indeed solves my problem.

This is odd. I seem to remember this working before, but I can't get it to work now. Included is a small screencast. Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong ? expandstroke.mov

Sorry if this has been asked before, I searched but could not find an answer. I currently have a few lines to which I have applied "arrowheads" start and end (actually I used circles instead of arrowheads..) and now I am trying to "flatten" the design. However, I am unable to convert to curves (a stroke is already a curve) and when I choose "expand stroke", the stroke itself is expanded as expected, however the arrow ends have vanished... is this expected behaviour ? Is there any way I can achieve this simple task ?

Just a quick follow up. It seems that my problem was to blame at Apple raid. I use a few RAID 0 striped sets, and even in Finder I noticed laggy performance, while the raid set should have 6000mb+ read and write speeds. I have now switched over to softraid, and performance seems to be more reliable. So please ignore my previous message.

I've seen this mentioned in the Publisher and Photo forums too, this is now happening for me with Designer. I have a document (+/- 80mb) that I'm trying to save, and the save progress bar just stays idle. I've left it for 15 minutes, but my documents aren't saving anymore. I need to force quit the application, (the application does stay responsive though). During the save-freeze, I see no disk activity at all (I use istat menus), and Designer does have access to my SSD. It seems that I now also cannot relaunch designer anymore... I'll try a reboot and see if that fixes things...

This is really odd. Today it seems to work fine. Don't know what went wrong yesterday. Anyway, I only type numbers and tab... no enter key. I'll keep an eye on this and see if it pops up again

I just noticed something annoying.. When changing colors of any object, I usually type in values for R,G and B, going from input field to input field with the TAB key... But now it seems that the color tool looses it's focus after tabbing, meaning, when I fill the first value in the Red input field, then TAB to go to Green, Designer looses focus of the field, and now my TAB key works on the interface, and hides/shows all my pallettes. This is a bit frustrating, and I would be greatfull if you could fix this please...

Thanks Garry, I use the applications in the same way as you. I was only curious if I was missing out on something, but it seems I'm good 🙂

Hi Sean, A screencast, as well as the crash log is attached here. I am using the plain macOS Font Book, as seen in the screencast, with close to 300 fonts installed. This is 1.8.1 (all apps crash for me, photo designer and publisher). Yesterday, the apps would crash as soon as I started typing in the font list, today it took some effort... so it seems to get better with time :-) I hope the crash log points to something conclusive. This is on a 2019 Mac Pro, 12core 3.3Ghz, 48GB ram, Radeon VII GPU Screen_Recording_2020-02-28_at_09_28_04.mov Affinity Designer_2020-02-28-092855_Mac-Pro-2019.crash

Just a question out of interest. Users who have Publisher and Designer/Photo, do you still launch those apps individually, or do you use Publisher as the main app and use StudioLink ? I have all three, and I seem to have stuck in launching them individually, but I am thinking that might not be the most efficient way. otoh, when using Publisher mainly, I seem to have lost all the persona's (panormam, develop, slicing/export...) is there a way to access those when using StudioLink ?

Yes indeed, I just updated with the "check for updates" function. Thanks. Glad that the Designer/Photo StudioLink versions do not have the crashing bug when searching in the font list.