RussellBWilson Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 It sure would be nice if we could see the slices' bounding boxes while in Draw / Pixel Personas. Maybe it could be an option in the View menu as 'Show Slices' toggled with 'Hide Slices' :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted January 19, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 19, 2015 It will be looked into soon. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioWeb Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Hi, I know this post is old but I can't find a way to show slices in Pixel or Designer Personna. I'm still learning the app. Don't tell me you can't do this simple thing in 2024 ? I need to move layers while slices are displayed. Thank you for your answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Slices are only available/visible in the Export Persona. Can you explain why you need to be able to move a layer while being able to see the boundary of the slice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioWeb Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Because for example I need to center/adjust something inside a slice. It's just one example. Plus, I just discover I can't add rules in Export mode. It could help me to show the bounderies of slices in pixel mode. But still, not just giving an option to visualize slices in other modes is very strange for me. I can't understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Would you be able to supply a visual example of what you want to do so we can better understand the circumstances? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioWeb Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Example, I want to adjust the size of the layer and verticaly center it inside this slice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Ah, thanks, so you know what your export location/dimensions are and you want to be able to manipulate part of the contents of the document so that it is nicely sized/aligned within the export slice. That, on the face of it, sounds like a reasonable use-case to me. As an alternative to being able to see the slices outside of the Export Persona, would it be acceptable/better if some basic layer manipulation – moving, resizing, alignment, etc. – were offered in the Export Persona instead? A possible ‘work-around’ might be to create a rectangle with no fill or stroke, put your design inside that rectangle and then create a slice from the rectangle. That way you can manipulate the design, keeping it within the rectangle as you want it, and then exporting the slice of the rectangle as necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioWeb Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Quote As an alternative to being able to see the slices outside of the Export Persona, would it be acceptable/better if some basic layer manipulation – moving, resizing, alignment, etc. – were offered in the Export Persona instead? Of course! It's the minimum, but a way to toggle show slices in other modes is the better I think. Quote A possible ‘work-around’ might be to create a rectangle with no fill or stroke, put your design inside that rectangle and then create a slice from the rectangle. That way you can manipulate the design, keeping it within the rectangle as you want it, and then exporting the slice of the rectangle as necessary. I thought of this solution of course. But so much manipulation and adding unnecessary layers for something so simple. Staff answered : "It will be looked into soon." Nearly 10 years later... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 I can see why you might not want to use the ‘work-around’ but, since this request is more than nine years old, I would suggest that you might want to use it rather than hoping the request will be implemented any time soon. Just because someone says they will ‘look into it’ doesn’t mean that anything will be done about it, it just means that they will consider it, and in the case of feature requests this is in relation to many hundreds/(thousands?) of other requests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioWeb Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 So sad to read 😢 I thought going from Adobe to Affinity will change something... Thank you for your time Garry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 You're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 5 hours ago, BioWeb said: Plus, I just discover I can't add rules in Export mode. It could help me to show the bounderies of slices in pixel mode. Yes, you can create Guides in the Export Persona. Just View > Show Rulers if they're not showing, switch to the Move Tool, and drag them out (video below). (Or View > Guides..., but setting them from the Rulers will be easier for your purpose.) 20240917-1420-50.3944029.mp4 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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