alsarraf
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On 9/14/2018 at 7:20 PM, dominik said:
Hi @alsarraf,
there's another way to select multiple artboards quite efficiently. Use the layers palette.
Assuming you want to select ALL artboards:
- In the layers palette click on the top most artboard.
- Then SHIFT+Click on the bottom most artboard > now all artboards are selected and can be moved with the Move Tool.
If you want to exclude some of the artboards you can CTRL+Click on them (make sure to click on the artboard's name, not on the thumbnail).
I hope this is closer to what you are asking for
d.Your case is efficient for selecting all artboards, but its not for selecting multiple artboards, because their order usually is not the same as that of layers in the layers palette, and finding the artboard in the layers palette to select it is much harder than selecting its name in the workspace.
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1 hour ago, Aammppaa said:
Click on the Name of the Artboard to select it.
You can select multiple Artboards by holding Shift.
Drag within the blue bounding rectangle to move all selected Artboards.
I know that I can do that, but I have a file with tens of artboards and selecting the name of each artboard individually is annoying.
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Add an option in the Context Toolbar for the Move Tool that makes the tool selects artboards instead of its layers.
This will dramatically save time and efforts for anyone who want to rearrange tens of artboards.
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It seems that the developers of Affinity Photo do not have any plan to support RTL languages any time soon.
I recommend using Pixelmator Pro as an alternative for Affinity Photo, as it supports RTL.
It's really amazing, and a one-time payment app as well.
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+1 for Arabic Support.
We want to migrate from Adobe !
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I used to make designs for social networks, but it is difficult to do that in the current designing softwares because each website and application requires different size for the design, and I did not see any software that includes presets for social networks.
For example, Facebook requires 1200x630px and 1200x717px for shared and highlighted images, respectively, twitter requires 440x220px for images, Youtube requires 2560x1440px for cover image, etc.
I will be awesome if I launched Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo and found "Social Networks" document type and presets for common websites and applications.
I believe that implementing this feature is very easy.
The attached image shows all required sizes for social networks.
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@alsarraf,
Yes, you can but you have to use the Export Persona / slices to do it. That's why I pointed out the videos.
By default Affinity creates a slice automatically for each artboard you have. If you set the background of the document to transparent it will affect all artboards, then in the Layers panel in Export Persona you can disable specific objects (in your case the background of you icons) so it doesn't get exported with the icon.
Take a look at the sample file below. Instead of icons I placed a white letter on each artboard with a grey rectangle below, set the document background to transparent (affects all artboards) and disabled/hide the grey rectangle in the Layers panel in Export Persona so it doesn't get exported with the letters. Now if you go to the Slices panel in the Export Persona and click Export Slices, all slices (one from each artboard) will be exported simulatenously without the grey background rectangle.
Solved.
Thank you so much !
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Hi alsarraf,
To export multiple icons simultaneously (with different sizes and formats too if needed) you must use the Export Persona.
Here's some video tutorials that explain how to take advantage of it to speed up export workflows:
- Exporting: Automatic Directory/Folder Creation
- Exporting: Multiple Outputs from a Single Slice
The first two should answer your questions (although I advise you to take a look at the others too). Let me know if you still have trouble.
Maybe there is a misunderstanding.
Say I have 10 artboards and each artboard has a gray background and contains a white icon.
Is it possible to export 5 artboards (to png) at the same time and remove their background color ?
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I found it.
Usually I export multiple icons at the same time, and this option is only for one icon at a time.
So, is it possible to do it for multiple icons/artboards ?
Thanks.
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In the Export Settings dialog, look for a dropdown list with three options: 'Whole document', 'Selection with background' and 'Selection without background'. Choose the last of those options.
I couldn't find the options, sorry.
Can you send a screenshot ?
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Sometimes I need to design white icons with transparent background, but removing the background color from the artboard makes its background white.
Is it possible to remove the background color from the artboard while exporting the icon ?
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The ability to show the file extension while saving the file.
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You're welcome
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option+click an arrow near a layer to expand/collapse all sublayers.
This is very common feature in Mac apps. Everybody can test it in Finder.
It is really powerful !
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When we will see "Pages and Art-boards" feature ?
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Hmmmm.....you could group them maybe?
Sometimes, it is annoying to use groups.
because grouping the layers makes reaching a specific layer harder. You have either to keep clicking on group to reach the wanted layer or expanding many layers, in the layers panel, to reach wanted layer.
Linking objects together, like Photoshop, makes reaching layers faster, makes working with them better and make you a more powerful user.
I use this feature a lot in Photoshop. I'm sure that if a power designer begin using it, he will love it!
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press "/" to quickly set the color to None
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navigate through the colors in the current swatch palette using a keyboard shortcut (e.g. Home/End)
Home: Fn + ←
End: Fn + →
Global Colours not applied correctly to object with multiple strokes
in V1 Bugs found on Windows
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I'm facing this issue in Affinity Designer 2.
Any workarounds ?