linked content, dynamic modifications and updates

[falasky]

I'm new to Affinity software, having recently left Adobe.

I would like to work with a large file in Affinity Publisher containing many pages.

I'm creating icons in Affinity Designer that I want to reuse in Publisher. These icons are intended to evolve over time (as it's a prototype). I'd like to find a way to link the content I create in Affinity Designer so that I can modify it and it updates automatically in Affinity Publisher, without me having to replace each icon manually.

I've tried the assets panel, but it's impossible to modify and update the content dynamically. And I can't find any other way to link content.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Aammppaa]

Hi @falasky, welcome to the forum.

You can place your Affinity Designer files as linked content, that way any changes to the external file, will be updated in the Publisher document.

https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Media/embeddingVsLinking.html

 

[falasky]

Thank you i missed this simple step !

[Matt1978]

@Aammppaa Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work when adding assets. Assets aren't updated dynamically. I would've like that we can have access, in Publisher, to the Symbols created in Designer... I have the Affinity Suite and I would've expect that within Publisher, when navigating to Designer, the symbols would be available to me. 

Maybe there is something I'm missing. 

Any ideas how that can be accomplished?

Thanks

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, Matt1978 said:

I would've like that we can have access, in Publisher, to the Symbols created in Designer... I have the Affinity Suite and I would've expect that within Publisher, when navigating to Designer, the symbols would be available to me. 

AFAIK, Symbols are document-specific -- IOW, not "global" even within any one of the Affinity apps. So, while you could open a document made in Designer in Publisher & have access to that document's symbols, you would have to copy & paste them into other documents.