Resource Manager enhancement

[Michael Lloyd]

Please provide the ability to save assets listed in the Resource Manager ─ unmodified (with the same file type and properties as in the document) to a specified folder.

This capability will save significant time extracting assets from an Affinity Publisher or IDML document, for repurposing.

[Old Bruce]

Here on Mac there is a Collect button in the Resource Manager which will do as you request.

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Here on Mac there is a Collect button in the Resource Manager which will do as you request.

Also on Windows.

[Pšenda]

https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Media/resourceManager.html

[Michael Lloyd]

Thanks guys.

However this doesn't seem to address my issue; the Affinity Publisher Help states: ..."you can use the Resource Manager's Collect feature to prepare a project with linked resources for sharing. This lets you gather together distributed linked resources into a single folder, typically a subfolder under the main document."

I need to extract embedded files. So... either the Affinity Publisher Help information is incorrect, and it can collect specified (not all) graphic assets that are embedded, or the Resource Manager is currently insufficient in satisfying my need.

[walt.farrell]

On 6/26/2022 at 6:10 PM, Michael Lloyd said:

Thanks guys.

However this doesn't seem to address my issue; the Affinity Publisher Help states: ..."you can use the Resource Manager's Collect feature to prepare a project with linked resources for sharing. This lets you gather together distributed linked resources into a single folder, typically a subfolder under the main document."

I need to extract embedded files. So... either the Affinity Publisher Help information is incorrect, and it can collect specified (not all) graphic assets that are embedded, or the Resource Manager is currently insufficient in satisfying my need.

Collect also works (for me) to collect Embedded resources that I have selected in the Resource Manager. So it seems the Help could use a bit of rewording.

But you also have the alternative "Make Linked" possibility, which replaces the "Embed" button when you're looking at Embedded images. That would, though, change your document.