Copy/paste slice or edit all slices -- is this possible?

[Pining]

I'm creating a font using Affinity Designer and I have to export each letter individually, this could be done easily but I need the slices to be 256x256 in their dimensions. Right now the only ways I know how to do this is by either dragging and creating a lot of 256x256 slice squares or by turning each letter object into a slice but then I would have to rescale those as well! 

 

It would be really useful if there was a way to just copy drag a slice, or being able to edit the transform of multiple selected slices. Am I missing something or is this really not possible?

[Callum]

Hi Pining,

 

It isn't possible to duplicate slices or apply a transformation to all of your slices I'm afraid. You will have to resize each slice manually

 

Thanks

Callum

[bogdan808]

On 15.08.2017 at 7:09 PM, Callum said:

Hi Pining,

 

It isn't possible to duplicate slices or apply a transformation to all of your slices I'm afraid. You will have to resize each slice manually

 

Thanks

Callum

It's very dull! And very convenient!

[toltec]

51 minutes ago, bogdan808 said:

It's very dull! And very convenient!

 

You could set the size   256w, 256h   in the slice size box

 

 

It is then possible to save these attributes and copy them to multiple slices using the copy paste format buttons.

 

 

the slices will all be 256 x 256., even if they started out bigger. It resizes the slice to 256 x 256 but does not keep the aspect ratio. So you must make the slice square.

 

It might help, or not ?

 

 

[Christoph Schmitz]

I want to pick up this thread. Isn't it possible to bring these simple functions, which already exist in the Photo Persona to the Export Persona?

[affinityuser12048]

This is ridiculous, all done with assets using the main affinity designer tools and now I have to deal with such headaches and lack of features in the export persona, this part of the app needs major improvements

[joost]

Soooh, any reaction from you Affinity guys to put this on the map?  You understand how maddening (stupid) this is right? 

[Vladc]

+1, I was expecting cmd-J to work with slices too. So much improvement is at hand for so little.

[drkanukie]

Yes this is another missing key feature for actual workflow - yet again i'm going to have to use Figma as it's got this out of the box. There are fewer and fewer cases where Designer is better than Figma.

[Nightjar]

still missing – would be so easy to add. 

[pkclsoft]

Having the ability to select a bunch of slices and tell them all to be a specific size would be pretty intuitive and really darned useful.  Overall, the slice->export thing is a real improvement over what I used to use in Photoshop, but this is a problem when you have 100+ assets that all need to be sliced the same size regardless of the actual layer size.  

[Kalexan]

End of 2023 and still missing this!

Having used Adobe Fireworks for decades, simple copy-pasting already placed slices is definitely a must-have feature! And I am sure that this is not difficult to implement, as far as code is concerned...

[kirloi]

+1 for this feature

[Peter vw]

It's so hard to love affinity products (and recommend them) when features like this are missing. And people asking for a solution and not getting any useful response or it being implemented by Affinity 7 years later!

This and many of the other issues really put a halt on productivity.

Here's me having to manually draw 70 slices, rename each, and change the filetype and path of all of them.
Why can't a new slice just simply use the settings of the previous or selected slice? Seems like a no-brainer.
Why can't I copy/paste slices like layer? Seems like a no-brainer.
Why can't I select multiple slices and change the path/filetype/whatever of all of them? Seems like a no-brainer.