Saving Embedded Photos in a Document

[klee]

Can multiple photos embedded in an AP document be saved SEPARATELY FROM THE AP DOCUMENT?  I need to format the photos in AFPhoto and then reembed into the original document.

[sfriedberg]

In Publisher, if you choose to link rather than embed, you get that behavior.  When a linked image is modified, you will get a message from the Publisher Resource Manager and you'll get the chance to update/refresh the content in the Publisher document.

I presume it works similarly in Designer.

[R C-R]

If you mean photos placed or pasted into your AP document as "(Image)" layers, the only way I know to do that is to copy the layer, use "New from Clipboard" to open it as a separate document, make your edits, save it somewhere, & then in the original document use "Replace Image" to replace the original version.

For items identified as "(Embedded Documents)" in the Layers panel, where "Edit Document" won't do what you want, the procedure would be the same as above except that after the save you would use "Replace Document."

[carl123]

7 hours ago, klee said:

Can multiple photos embedded in an AP document be saved SEPARATELY FROM THE AP DOCUMENT?  I

The quickest way may just be to use the Export Persona to export all photos to a single directory and "reembed" them after you edit them

[Move Along People]

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[R C-R]

49 minutes ago, haakoo said:

Don't think there's an export persona in AFpub @carl123

But there is in AP, which it would seem the OP is using.

[Move Along People]

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[sfriedberg]

I see I misunderstood the thrust of the OP's question.  😓

[fdelaneau]

I have a similar situation where I wanted to retrieve the embedded files as separates files while preserving layers and vector elements.

Copying into a new document created to the same dimensions does indeed work but in my case I found it easier to export as PSD file then import them again.

I think it would be nice to have a “Detach the embedded file” option that would create a new Affinity file with the content. I have several scenarii where it could be usedful in Designer and it could be even more usefull with Publisher.

[walt.farrell]

12 minutes ago, fdelaneau said:

I think it would be nice to have a “Detach the embedded file” option that would create a new Affinity file with the content. I have several scenarii where it could be usedful in Designer and it could be even more usefull with Publisher.

It's already available in Publisher, via the Resource Manager. And that makes it available for .afdesign and .afphoto files, too, if you own Publisher

[fdelaneau]

I thought so too and even checked before posting. In my case the embedded documents originated from a photoshop file, they are listed as .tif files and the option to Make linked… was not available.

I just tested with purely native files and it work fine in that case 😋

[walt.farrell]

"Make Linked" does not work for PDF or PSD files. Possibly your TIFF file from Photoshop was saved with a PSD layers inside it, which might make it ineligible for becoming linked, much as actual PSD files are.

It is possible with normal TIFF files, or with TIFF files exported with Affinity layer information.

[fdelaneau]

That was my conclusion.

In my case, a PSD file with embedded documents was imported in Photos then saved as an Affinity file before opening it in Publisher.

In Photo and in Designer, there is no way to distinguish the PSD embedded files from an embedded file created with Affinity.

I think that this points to an issue :

1. Designer can import PSD files but doesn't support embedded documents.

2. Photos can import PSD files and support embedded documents if the right option is set in the preferences (this is a problem from the discovery point of vue).

3. Publisher is able to open en PSD files, but can't import embedded document from these files. It also cannot export an embedded document if the source file was a PSD.

I hope that the team will unify the import behavior accross the 3 apps so that when you import a PSD file you can always get editable embedded files and if the embedded files are PSB, they should also be converted to Affinity files so that there is no issue once in Publisher 😎