Using Tilde symbol in export slices naming

[captain13chris]

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

[stokerg]

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. 

[walt.farrell]

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?

[stokerg]

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 

[SergiP]

Please, implement it. The possibility to use tilde in slices names would be great for iOS developers.

[firstdefence]

Sketch allows the tilde.

In windows, word/microsoft uses the tilde to indicate temp backup files,

[jangelsb]

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:

1. Select all the images in Finder
2. Right click and select "Rename..."
3. Then do a "Replace Text' and Find "-ipad" and Replace with "~ipad"

Edited April 24, 2022 by jangelsb