Slice Export missing from Studio Link for iPad

[iuli]

As I work with both raster and vector elements, many times I need to export various slices of the same project as I work on. The Slice Export panel is missing from APub so I had to save the document in APub, open AP, import and save the slices there — and then go back to APub (where I have access to more features than I would in AD) and continue working. I hope you agree that this is not ideal.

So I respectfully asking Serif if there’s any chance to see more features already available in the individual apps finding their way to StudioLink, like Slice Export, Select Sample Color or Pixel Brush Tool in AD persona.

Kind regards!

[Paul Mudditt]

On 12/5/2022 at 7:56 AM, iuli said:

As I work with both raster and vector elements, many times I need to export various slices of the same project as I work on. The Slice Export panel is missing from APub so I had to save the document in APub, open AP, import and save the slices there — and then go back to APub (where I have access to more features than I would in AD) and continue working. I hope you agree that this is not ideal.

So I respectfully asking Serif if there’s any chance to see more features already available in the individual apps finding their way to StudioLink, like Slice Export, Select Sample Color or Pixel Brush Tool in AD persona.

Kind regards!

Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

On the desktop the work around in Publisher is to use Edit in Designer or Edit in Photo to use the external applications directly so access those features not available in the Studiolink versions.

Because of the walled garden that Apple used in IOS/iPadOS applications were not able to share information between applications like they can on Windows or macOS, however with iPadOS16 the use of shared resource areas is now allowed by Apple which is how the brushes and other resources now only have to be loaded in a single Affinity app and are now available to all.

Therefore I am hopeful that the 'Edit in Photo', 'Edit in Designer', 'Edit in Publisher' are at least now theoretically possible on the iPad versions using a shared file resource area where open documents can be fully exchanged automatically. Whether Serif choose to implement them is another story however. Fingers crossed !!

Apologies again for late response.