wildscribe Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 My apologies in advance if this feature is already part of Affinity Designer. Is there a way to create templates in Affinity? For example, is it possible to preset the background size and resolution settings and then save the settings for future use? For example, a website setting for 1070px by 800px at 72dpi and then be able to save it as "website-1070" for future use? And thanks again for all the help I have received from this forum. - - - WiLd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Krebs Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Not,at the moment, but you could just make a folder with a couple of empty files. Open the one you need and make a quick ,save as' before starting to work. To ensure you don't accidentally work on one od these rtemplates you can make them read-only in Finder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Would be great to have a default canvas for a quick use... (with our desired settings) automatically loaded at start if we haven't open the program through any AD's file already saved. Or presets as Wildscribe said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenoaJenn Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Multiple templates would be grand! FreeHand has only the one “default” template for New Documents, but I can save FreeHand files (FH11) as templates… there just isn’t a “Template Palette” or window that displays a thumbnail and name of the template… instead, it only lists the files you have saved to a specified folder. Apple’s iWork suite — Pages, Numbers and Keynote — have nice template selection windows, which can be set to auto open when you start the apps or not. Adobe has a separate app — Bridge — that allow you to organize files and your own “template” files for Photoshop, but it annoys me that I cannot view template previews in Illustrator or InDesign (CS4). My vote is for a scalable thumbnail view of templates in a separate window — if you allow us to create our own templates, that is. AND, a Template Folder that goes where the application keeps necessary files, so that it is difficult to delete a template… nothing like setting up a template only to accidentally delete it… or overwrite it… without the app double-checking with you, i.e.: “Are you SURE you want to delete this file?" Quote -GenoaJenn —————————— Jenn in Genoa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Krebs Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 As said, I think that might all be accomplishable via new files and a nice own folder (I use adripbox for this to have the templates on both my machines). However, If Serif decided to have a template folder it should be accessible for the entire suite (Designer, Photo & Publisher) and needs to be located in iCloud. This folder could be extended to also home custom brushes, colour palettes / swatches, Symbols, a users software settings and other interesting stuff -- IF they do it, it should be done RIGHT in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Not bad idea a shared templates folder :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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