Need help optimizing multi language asset exports

[Esshahn]

Hey guys,

 

I need some advice on optimizing my workflow.

Scenario: I need to create teaser images in various formats for a multi language website. Thanks to symbols, I can easily exchange e.g. backgrounds and product shots for all artboards.

 

Something like this

 

 

When exporting these images with localized texts for all countries though, the process gets slow and error prone.

Here's what I do:

 

* I create a "headline" symbol, which contains all localized texts

* when I go to export persona, I manually hide all other languages in the layers panel except the one I'd like to export

* I hit export and the assets get created

* after that, I have to manually rename those files, e.g. add the language info like "_co-uk"

 

This is how a text symbol looks like currently

 

 

So the question is: is there a simple way to manage this so that all assets in all languages get created when hitting export, ideally without the need to rename the exported files afterwards?

 

Hope you guys understand, it's a bit hard to describe.

Thank you for any tipps and advice.

[Esshahn]

While I found a solution that works for me (switched doing it in Sketch as Designer kept crashing with nested symbols), I would be still interested in learning how to do this better.

[Leigh]

I would like to try and find out why the app is crashing. Is it possible to attach the Crash Report to this thread? It would be great if you could attach your document to this thread too - this will allow us to look into this further for you. Feel free to PM me the files instead - I will make sure they're deleted when no longer needed :)