Automatically activate continuous export for SVG files

[aeberharter]

I am using Affinity Designer as a drop-in for Inkscape due to the improved user experience. Inkscape works natively on SVG files and Ctrl+S is enough to update the file on disk and have an external program, which reads the file, show the changes.

The `Continuous` option of the Export Slices function is even better than Ctrl+S for my use case. The only downside is the number of clicks required to enable the it.

Export Persona -> Open Slice Dropdown -> Choose SVG (for export) -> Export Slices -> Navigate to path of original SVG file -> Toggle Continuous -> Back to Designer Persona

Those are 7 actions some might require multiple clicks. Is there any way to automatize it via Scripting or Command Line (CLI) options?

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @aeberharter

There’s no way that I know of to cut the current process down but it only has to be done once per document. (I’m not sure what the “Navigate to path...” bit of your workflow means.)

And there are no scripting or command line options which will do what you want.

You might like to read/follow this thread:

 

[aeberharter]

I have already found the referenced thread, it contains mostly posts which emphasize the importance of scripting but no solution to my problem? (I did not read through the hundreds of posts in that thread)

There also seems to be an issue with SVG export: Affinity splits up a multi-line text into individual text tags. This makes it hard to edit text after re-importing. SVG is very much able to encode multi-line text, this is clearly a bug and should be fixed.

[GarryP]

9 minutes ago, aeberharter said:

SVG is very much able to encode multi-line text, this is clearly a bug and should be fixed.

I have no way to tell whether it’s a ‘bug’, or if it’s just something that has not yet been implemented.

My guess would be that it’s that latter as the SVG export functionality doesn’t cover all possible SVG features yet, e.g. vector patterns, etc.