captain13chris Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Hi, I'm trying to export App Icons with Affinity Designer using a lot of slices. In order for them to be automatically recognized within Xcode, they need to be named using the tilde symbol, for example "app-icon@2x~iPad". Unfortunately, the exported files are simply missing the symbol (in my example the file created was named "app-icon@2xiPad"). Am I missing something or is this a bug? Thanks for your replies! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted April 2, 2020 Staff Share Posted April 2, 2020 Hi Chris, I've just been looking into this and we do already have it logged and closed as by designer and that reason is, it's excluded for Windows paths, so we exclude it in general. Paths generated for batch export need to be consistent across platforms, so we have to obey naming rules for both OSX and Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 3 minutes ago, stokerg said: I've just been looking into this and we do already have it logged and closed as by designer and that reason is, it's excluded for Windows paths, so we exclude it in general. Paths generated for batch export need to be consistent across platforms, so we have to obey naming rules for both OSX and Windows. I saw that earlier report, and wondered about the conclusion that ~ is "excluded for Windows paths". I'm able to create directory and file names containing the ~ character, so I wonder if we can get more details from the Developer about that? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted April 2, 2020 Staff Share Posted April 2, 2020 7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: I'm able to create directory and file names containing the ~ character, so I wonder if we can get more details from the Developer about that? I will see if i can it may be things have changed since the report was logged walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SergiP Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Please, implement it. The possibility to use tilde in slices names would be great for iOS developers. captain13chris 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Sketch allows the tilde. In windows, word/microsoft uses the tilde to indicate temp backup files, Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jangelsb Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 (edited) Bump. This minor feature is really important for iOS Developers. For future readers, as a work around, I am exporting images with "-ipad" and then after Affinity Designer exports them, I rename them in Finder: Select all the images in Finder Right click and select "Rename..." Then do a "Replace Text' and Find "-ipad" and Replace with "~ipad" Edited April 24, 2022 by jangelsb Old Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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