Overide file functinality

[erik.palencik]

Hi in affinity designer I'm missing a lot this handsome button like gimp has "Override <opened-file>.<extension>"

This works in following steps:

1. I open some MyImage.png in gimp

2. Create layers, paint something,.....

3. I press Overwrite  MyImage.png

And program automaticaly export content to file it came from. Its pretty useful for me, mainly when I'm working with svg or eps, in affinty primary.

 

[walt.farrell]

How is that different from just using Save?

[erik.palencik]

@walt.farrell  with save affinity want to create new .afdesign file, which I don't need. Overwrite "MyFile.svg" will save svg to source file, no .afdesign file created. (Or maybe Export should offer at first directory of source file, not last active directory, but I thing overwrite button solves all problems) this thing could be nice for affinity photo too. I often open affinity only to modify some file just to save again that same file.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks for clarifying that. 

My confusion is that for you or stated sequence of steps, using .png files (or JPG or TIFF), Save will do what you want. I failed to consider that it would work differently with SVG or EPS.

[erik.palencik]

@walt.farrell  Sorry for confusion. First part of text is step by step in Gimp  (working with png and jpg) and I would like to reproduce this workflow to Affinity (in my case svg and eps)

[walt.farrell]

For PNG, TIFF, or JPG you can just use Save.

For SVG or EPS you need to use Export, so for those files your feature request makes sense.

[erik.palencik]

@walt.farrell yeah, thanks for you time  hope this functionality will be available soon, have a nice day.

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I failed to consider that it would work differently with SVG or EPS.

Only image files are mentioned in the help.