[Multi] Duplicate slice?

[Lojza]

Sorry, if I'm missing something, but is there a way, how to duplicate an existing slice in the Export Persona?

 

There's so many things that may be defined within a slice, so duplication would really speed things up...

 

Thanks for info :)

[MEB]

Hi Lojza,

As far as i know currently there's no way to duplicate a slice.

[Schubi63]

Hi Lojza,

 

that's true. But if you want to duplicate the export settings of a slice you have at least the possibility to copy the settings from one slice to another. Unfortunately therefore are no customizable short cuts provided.

 

 

Best, Stefan.  

[Julian23]

I think it should be possible to drag a slice with the ALT key being pressed to duplicate it. It would make it much easier to create equally sized slizes for GUI projects.

[Chris B]

I think this would be a good idea. I'll move this to the Feature Requests section. 

[Lojza]

I think it should be possible to drag a slice with the ALT key being pressed to duplicate it. It would make it much easier to create equally sized slizes for GUI projects.

...or Command+J, as usually in the Draw Persona.

 

 

Hi Lojza,

 

that's true. But if you want to duplicate the export settings of a slice you have at least the possibility to copy the settings from one slice to another. Unfortunately therefore are no customizable short cuts provided.

 

 

Best, Stefan.  

Wow, I completely overlooked the "Export preset" part. Didn't know why, but I thought it was some image format configuration :wacko: This helps a lot!

 

Thank you all for the comments!

[Schubi63]

It feels great to know it helped you out and it will save you a lot of work. I love this forum. :)

[vonBusing]

yes, please.  :)

[voidsea]

I need this feature a lot.

[p10n]

Why can't we just copy-and-paste slices from one document to another?

This would be very handy if you have to export images with similar width/height ratio from different documents.

[bogdan808]

On 06.10.2016 at 11:02 AM, Chris B said:

I think this would be a good idea. I'll move this to the Feature Requests section. 

Sooner would have implemented this feature!

[sadbuttrue]

Any progress on this, as it appears to still be a severely lacking feature?

[MEB]

Hi sadbuttrue,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
No, sorry. I've moved this thread to the new Feedback for the Affinity Suite of Products section (as it refers to more than one product). The original one where you posted was old/archived.

[Nightjar]

Still lacking. 

[Zmip]

Still lacking...

 

Moreover: slices don't seem to snap to anything. So if you create a grid with ruler lines, you're still out of luck when you want to create a number of equally sized slices. Serif really has my sympathy, but as a (graphics) software developer I find it hard to understand why someone tasked with a feature (let's say: slices), just makes things this half-baked. Did the spec say: "something with slices", or was the spec actually complete, making slices a feature people could actually use? Tip: create the software you actually want to use. I've said it before: you have some really smart people working on the Affinity suite, you can do better than this.

[p10n]

Yes, good point! I am missing snapping as well!

[kirloi]

+1 for getting this in.

[lotech]

+1 for this feature. Mentioned 8 years ago still missing in V2.

Edited July 10, 2024 by lotech
Sorry saw this was archived V1 post

[MikeTO]

Hi @lotech and welcome to the forums. This thread is in the v1 archive which the developers won't read much so it's better to post in the current v2 thread. Here's a link.

 

[cTHULHU]

Still missing so many use cases - where I want to export froma series of artboards a consistent set of slices. Now I have to manually create a nee slice arbitrary size. Input the dimensions I require. Oh yes copy the export setting from the exemplar slice first. Reposition the slice in the same X/Y but on a different artboard, paste the export settings and then export. Can anyone see how this is a total PITA and a terrible workflow. Likemost of Affinity its 80% there but fails to close the final 20% to make a feature excellent.