Claudia_Germany Posted April 9, 2020 Posted April 9, 2020 Hello, Since I work with very complex graphic files (maps), which have many layers, it is very important that when copying a section from one file to another (new) file, the structure of the layers and sub-layers is retained. Enclosed are 4 screenshots showing what happens to the upper layers when only individual objects are copied from them. Otherwise the new file becomes extremely confusing. Also, symbols will be copied into the new file as symbols, but not into the symbol palette of the new file, why not? How can I realize this? Is this planned for the future? Thanks, Claudia Quote
firstdefence Posted April 9, 2020 Posted April 9, 2020 You need to select the parent layers in the layer panel to get them copied over intact. selecting the objects from the workspace by dragging over them will select the child layers only. Instead of having the shapes as child layers to a parent Layer (layer) try having the shapes contained within a group. Selecting from the workspace by dragging over the shapes will select the groups and everything contained within that group and when copying will retain the structure, even with groups within groups within groups. Re symbols, copying from one document and pasting to another, after pasting and while the symbol is still selected just go to the symbol panel and click on create to add the symbol to the symbols panel. I think symbols should be Application wide not document wide, so they become "power assets" Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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
R C-R Posted April 9, 2020 Posted April 9, 2020 27 minutes ago, firstdefence said: I think symbols should be Application wide not document wide, so they become "power assets" I think that would cause lots of problems. For example, what if an existing document uses the some symbol that has been modified in another document? If opening the existing one updated its symbols to whatever ones had been modified in the other one, it could ruin a carefully constructed document. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
firstdefence Posted April 9, 2020 Posted April 9, 2020 5 minutes ago, R C-R said: I think that would cause lots of problems. For example, what if an existing document uses the some symbol that has been modified in another document? If opening the existing one updated its symbols to whatever ones had been modified in the other one, it could ruin a carefully constructed document. I agree, another flash idea scrapped lol! Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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
Claudia_Germany Posted April 13, 2020 Author Posted April 13, 2020 On 4/9/2020 at 11:17 PM, firstdefence said: You need to select the parent layers in the layer panel to get them copied over intact. selecting the objects from the workspace by dragging over them will select the child layers only. Instead of having the shapes as child layers to a parent Layer (layer) try having the shapes contained within a group. Selecting from the workspace by dragging over the shapes will select the groups and everything contained within that group and when copying will retain the structure, even with groups within groups within groups. Re symbols, copying from one document and pasting to another, after pasting and while the symbol is still selected just go to the symbol panel and click on create to add the symbol to the symbols panel. I think symbols should be Application wide not document wide, so they become "power assets" Thanks for your idea with the groups. It doesn't work for me the way I need it to. Because I only select a selection with the "lasso", so I don't want to copy everything within a group, then all groups are still copied into the new file. If I select single objects of the groups, the upper groups are not copied as well. Quote
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