How to export/import studio presets to another computer?

[anto]

How to export/import studio presets to another computer?

[walt.farrell]

First, this can probably only be done if both computers are using Windows, or both are using macOS, not if you have a mix of OS-platforms.

Next, I believe you can only do this by locating the internal data files that record the studio information, and copying them from one computer to the other and ensuring you put them into the right location. This FAQ will help you locate the directories where the files might be located, which depends on both the kind of OS you're using, and which Store you downloaded the application from, and (for Windows) which kind of installer (MSIX, or MSI/EXE) you used.

I don't recall where the studio presets are kept, exactly, and I'm away from my computers right now, so I can't be any more precise than this at this time. And I would need to know the OS you're using.

[anto]

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

First, this can probably only be done if both computers are using Windows, or both are using macOS, not if you have a mix of OS-platforms.

Next, I believe you can only do this by locating the internal data files that record the studio information, and copying them from one computer to the other and ensuring you put them into the right location. This FAQ will help you locate the directories where the files might be located, which depends on both the kind of OS you're using, and which Store you downloaded the application from, and (for Windows) which kind of installer (MSIX, or MSI/EXE) you used.

I don't recall where the studio presets are kept, exactly, and I'm away from my Windows computer right now, so I can't be any more precise than this at this time.

Thanks. I found them in 

C:\Users\....\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Publisher\2.0\Workspaces\Custom\Publisher

This folder contains the studio preset folders

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

First, this can probably only be done if both computers are using Windows, or both are using macOS, not if you have a mix of OS-platforms.

I wonder how well it would work if the two computers have considerably different screen sizes....

I am not in a position to test that but maybe someone else can?

[anto]

35 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I wonder how well it would work if the two computers have considerably different screen sizes....

 

If you delete the window.xml file, the next time you start Publisher, it will automatically recreate it with the required parameters. I wrote about this in another thread. I think it adapts the settings automatically.

[R C-R]

43 minutes ago, anto said:

If you delete the window.xml file, the next time you start Publisher, it will automatically recreate it with the required parameters. I wrote about this in another thread. I think it adapts the settings automatically.

You lost me. How does the relate to or affect copying the file from one computer to another if they have different screen sizes?

So for example, if copying the file from a computer with a larger screen & some of its studio presets include some undocked items, like a wide Layers panel & next to it a wide Brushes panel (which some of my presets include), what happens if it is used to replace the file on a computer with a considerably narrower screen?

How would it know where to place those panels, & at what widths?

[NotMyFault]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

wonder how well it would work if the two computers have considerably different screen sizes....

This should not matter at all. Display numbers and size can change any time on one PC. Of course this will impact the panel position, but Affinity must deal with that changes anyway, and having 2 PCs with 4K displays causes no issues .

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, NotMyFault said:

This should not matter at all. Display numbers and size can change any time on one PC.

But here we are talking about replacing the file from one PC with one from another. So how could changing anything in the source PC's studio preset(s) have any effect on how the file on the destination decides what to do if the screen size does not match?

Again, consider a preset from a large screen computer that undocks several Studios & places them to the right of the document window. Would you expect the document window's width to shrink so the undocked panels are not over it or something else, like one or both of the undocked one's widths to shrink to avoid that, if the destination PC has a much narrower screen?

[walt.farrell]

15 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

but Affinity must deal with that changes anyway,

And it does, but very poorly as evidenced by the many topics here about problems that arise when the monitor configurations are changed on a system.