LNDF Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 Hi everyone ! I'm learning Designer, coming from inkscape. I often need to quickly make small edit on an svg, or create some simple geometrical stuff. Inkscape has this convenient way of just opening the svg, letting you edit and save your work directly to the file. Designer can open the svg as easily, but I can't save it to anything else than a designer project Affinity Photo has an option to "save flatten" so I was wondering if designer has the same kind of functionality Have I missed something ? Thanks for your time ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 2 minutes ago, LNDF said: Designer can open the svg as easily, but I can't save it to anything else than a designer project Welcome to the Affinity forums. You'll need to use File > Export, not Save. Help: https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/ShareSavePrint/export.html Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNDF Posted August 20 Author Share Posted August 20 Thanks for your answer (you're fast !) Indeed I know about the export menu, but I was wondering if there was a simpler way of doing it Exporting is : File > Export > set stuff > click export > enter a name for the file > click save > validate the query to replace the file with the same name I agree it takes merely dozens of seconds, but when I am working on something for a website, I'll often do small iteration which will need to be in svg format for the server to load, also I need to keep the same name to keep file paths valid. Export can quickly become tedious after tens of modification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 4 minutes ago, LNDF said: Thanks for your answer (you're fast !) Indeed I know about the export menu, but I was wondering if there was a simpler way of doing it Exporting is : File > Export > set stuff > click export > enter a name for the file > click save > validate the query to replace the file with the same name I agree it takes merely dozens of seconds, but when I am working on something for a website, I'll often do small iteration which will need to be in svg format for the server to load, also I need to keep the same name to keep file paths valid. Export can quickly become tedious after tens of modification. I feel your pain... there should be a "Save to file" or some such. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 The easy option is save as a native Designer file till you are ready to export for whatever your end intention is for the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNDF Posted August 20 Author Share Posted August 20 46 minutes ago, wonderings said: The easy option is save as a native Designer file till you are ready to export for whatever your end intention is for the file. It would be the default workflow indeed, but my main concern is about this : 1 hour ago, LNDF said: I'll often do small iteration which will need to be in svg format for the server to load, also I need to keep the same name to keep file paths valid. Which I guess is a bit off the usual way of working with designer, but would be of great help in cases where you need to be a bit "more close to the machine" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 44 minutes ago, LNDF said: It would be the default workflow indeed, but my main concern is about this : Which I guess is a bit off the usual way of working with designer, but would be of great help in cases where you need to be a bit "more close to the machine" I guess with no options for format in the save dialogue box you are not going to find a solution. Might be one of those cases where you have to do something else if you really want to avoid the few extra clicks and seconds exporting as SVG every time. Maybe make a feature request for it and you might be surprised if it get implemented. LNDF 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 A slightly shorter path would be to use export persona, you would initially setup export persona to export to your preferred SVG and then the export route would be... Export Persona > Export Slices > Export. (If you export to the same folder/place it will ask to replace) LNDF 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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