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Well there you go, a happy accident :) I finished converting the PSD from appicontemplate.com, it's on my pixelapse if anyone wants to take a look. The ability to have arbitrary, embedded documents is important, I think, so hopefully going forward this "feature" is preserved and even expanded on! :D

Sure. It's something that I discovered while I was messing around, trying to set up an iOS icon template. I'm not sure if it's documented anywhere, or even intended behavior--perhaps MattP can weigh in. 1. Save your document. 2. Equip the Place Image Tool. 3. When the file dialog pops up, select the file that you're currently working on. 4. Place a box anywhere. You now have an embedded document. It's populated with the contents of your current document. 5. Double-click the embedded document to edit it. You can clear out what's in there and put whatever you like. It doesn't seem to be linked to anything. 6. Back in your main document, copy and paste your embedded document layer. 7. Layer > Transform > Flip Horizontal. What it looks like is that changing the embedded document adjusts your main document in realtime--but only the layer that you started editing from. You can update any other layers by zooming in or out a little bit. Again, this may not particularly be intended behavior. Perhaps I broke something, but it's sure useful for setting up an icon template like this. I'm on AD 1.1.2 from the App Store. Edit: Oh, I realize that I'm posting in the Beta section--whoops. I'm not using the Beta, sorry!

You can do this with an embedded object, if you like. Copy your link to the embedded object, then Layer > Transform > Flip Horizontal.

I wanted to suggest some features related to usability/exporting. I did scan through the roadmap and didn't see these, so hopefully I'm not repeating anything that's been said before. When you have a slice that's created from a layer, perhaps it should output the layer even if the layer has visibility turned off (otherwise the created file is just blank). It would be useful to be able to create a slice that includes multiple layers within it. (Sort-of related) The ability to toggle visibility on more than one layer at a time. These are things I've been finding when building files with embedded text that has to be in foreign languages. I make a layer group for each language, and create slices based off of those, but I need to duplicate the graphic elements in the layer groups. For example: Layer groupLogo Translated text Layer groupLogo Translated text This is fine for now, but if I need to change the logo, I'll need to do it one time for each language...not good. So similar to the way you can create a slice from a layer, and it disregards all but that layer, it would be great to be able to create a slice from multiple layers, and it disregards all but those layers. Then I can just have a "graphics" layer, and then a text layer for each language, and slice them accordingly. Also, when I'm working in the document, I tend to want to make all of the language-layers invisible except the one I'm working with. But when I go to export, I have to remember to turn them all back on so that the slices aren't outputting empty PNG files. Whoops! So I figure, if i have a slice based on a single layer, and that layer's invisible--it should either warn me when I go to export, or just treat the layer as visible for the purpose of exporting. Make sense? Finally, I also find myself wanting to select several layers and then toggle the visibility on them. On a Mac, I believe the ALT key is used to select/deselect many checkboxes at once, and to open/close many folders at once. Maybe holding ALT while toggling visibility makes it affect all selected layers? Anyway, I know that the Serif team is hard at work adding more stuff, and I really appreciate it. I've never been able to break into Photoshop or Illustrator, but Affinity had me from hello.