DarkClown Posted February 5 Posted February 5 It would be great to have a single command to convert an embedded layer into an standard element of the file (not embedded). I'm aware there a workarounds but this would significantly save time. Result could be a group with all previously embedded elements included. Cheers, Timo PROdult and Frozen Death Knight 2 Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com
GarryP Posted February 5 Posted February 5 What do you mean by a “standard element of the file”? Quote
fde101 Posted February 5 Posted February 5 I believe the OP means to convert an embedded document into a group so that you can access its individual elements without needing to separately open it. Similar to rasterizing the document, except leaving it as vector content. I agree that this capability is currently missing. DarkClown 1 Quote
DarkClown Posted February 5 Author Posted February 5 4 minutes ago, GarryP said: What do you mean by a “standard element of the file”? Embedded elements can't be direcly edited - they open up in a seperate window and can be edited as a seperate file. I'd like to convert theses elements to be included (and not embedded any more) in the original file. GarryP 1 Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com
GarryP Posted February 5 Posted February 5 Thanks for the clarification. This has been asked about since 2017 but I’m not sure if anyone has actually added a request for it until now: Quote
DarkClown Posted February 5 Author Posted February 5 24 minutes ago, GarryP said: This has been asked about since 2017 but I’m not sure if anyone has actually added a request for it until now: That's true - but I could not find a feature request for it. And it seems just mentioning a missing feature does not make it a feature request. On the other hand a feature request - no matter how simple it is- does not make it a feature either as we all know by now Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com
GarryP Posted February 5 Posted February 5 I think the general advice on this sort of thing seems to be: If you are only mentioning it in a Questions thread then you can assume that nothing will be done about it, even if something might be done about it at some point. This seems quite reasonable to me given the very large number of feature requests and other things – such as bug reports, etc. – that Serif already have to deal with, rather than them also trawling the Questions for ‘nuggets of inspiration’, along with all of the things that are probably happening in the ‘social media arena’ and in emails that we users can’t see. Quote
Frozen Death Knight Posted February 5 Posted February 5 Yes. It needs to be possible to select objects in the Layers panel and R click for the menu to convert layers in links/embedded documents and vice versa. It's a pretty big limitation when jumping from Photoshop to Affinity. Also the lack of Group clipping masks which also affect Embedded/Linked Documents, since Affinity does not recognise the Alpha channel of those sorts of layers. All of those honestly should be very high priority features to implement to make Affinity on par with Adobe Photoshop in this specific area. DarkClown and eiketre 1 1 Quote
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