Exporting selection as separate svg files?

[HaydenL]

Hi all,

Is there a way to select an artboard/assets on an artboard and export them on a transparent background as separate layers and have affinity create a naming convention for those assets? I have some SVG assets on top of images and would be a real time saver to select everything except the image & export (in this case in SVG) but really just export to any one of the available formats rather than having to individually select each asset and export and name everything.

TIA

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Hayden Leenderts

I’m not entirely sure what you want to do or what you are doing it to but, assuming you are using Designer, have you looked at the Export Persona?

[HaydenL]

Will help to be a bit more clear, but yes I'm in Designer and have images of building that I've drawn some svg assets ontop of, and I want to save each those assets individually from the image & I can't see an export option to do so. If you're at all familiar with Canva and have a project with multiple pages, an option in the download tab comes up saying "Download pages as separate files". (i.e. affinity isolates each vector shape with a transparent background and exports it, rather than export a single layered image of everything on the artboard so that I can rebuild & animate things in a different application.)

Same concept but what I'm looking for here is to download assets as separate files, which the export persona doesn't seem to have, it is mostly the same menu as using the "ctrl, alt, shift, s" shortcut.

[GarryP]

I’ve never used Canva so I don’t know how it works so I can’t advise on a ‘workflow-conversion’ from Canva to Affinity.

I’m having trouble understanding/imagining what you have got, how it is organised, and what you want to do with it.

For instance, I don’t know what you mean by “export a single layered image”, in conjunction with “of everything on the artboard” but you have also said that you want to export “individually from the image”, and you also want to be able to animate things.

Would you be able to give us an example of what you have and give us more specific information about what should be exported and what should not be exported and any other important details (especially those which you can take for granted in Canva but might not exist or be similar in the Affinity applications)?

[HaydenL]

Canva was more just an example of a function within it and unfortunately I can't share an example from the files I'm working on but I can lay it out this way:

You have an artboard, with an image covering the artboard, you then have 2 vector squares on top of the image above the image. I'm wondering if there is an option to select the artboard and when in export and export each layer individually, as their own file, whether that be svg or png/jpeg, in this example you'd then have 3 exported files, 1 of the image, and 2 separate svg files of each square.

But I've dug through the export settings and the persona and it doesn't seem like it's an option, the only way seems to do it manually on each asset or layer containing the asset.

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, HaydenL said:

You have an artboard, with an image covering the artboard, you then have 2 vector squares on top of the image above the image. I'm wondering if there is an option to select the artboard and when in export and export each layer individually, as their own file, whether that be svg or png/jpeg, in this example you'd then have 3 exported files, 1 of the image, and 2 separate svg files of each square.

We can use the Export Persona to turn Layers into Slices. Look at the Layers panel in the Export Persona. You may need to group some of your layers in the Designer persona in order to get a bunch of layers exported as one file.

[HaydenL]

Awesome thank you, I played when GarryP mentioned it but didn't use it properly, this will work for what I need thank you.