Assets shared on laptop & desktop

[Aammppaa]

58 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Hopefully, you & anybody else trying this will do so in a way that won't violate any licensing terms

Indeed - I will be trying it on my own personal machine, for my use only. Simply to keep things in sync between Beta, Retail, and Publisher Personas.

And I fully expect to break something at some point! Which will be entirely my own fault!!!

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Yannick Gaultier said:

I assume R CR means that if it becomes known that assets can be used across a network for instance, by the 25 people in a company without corresponding licensing, then some assets suppliers could lose faith in Affinity and pull their products from Affinity.

I would argue that whether we do it or not, it's always been possible as part of all operating systems Affinity products operate on.

Sure, but my point is users doing what amounts to a clever hack is considerably different from Serif building in & officially supporting a user friendly interface for this.

2 hours ago, Yannick Gaultier said:

Is this a theoretical discussion or are there assets suppliers with licensing requirements more stringent than the Affinity ones?

I know that for example, the license for some brush packs prohibit "sharing" but I have no idea to what extent that would apply to a single user "sharing" the pack with more than one computer he or she owned or controlled.

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Aammppaa said:

Indeed - I will be trying it on my own personal machine, for my use only. Simply to keep things in sync between Beta, Retail, and Publisher Personas.

And I fully expect to break something at some point! Which will be entirely my own fault!!!

One favor that probably goes without saying, but I will say it anyway if you do this: be sure & mention it in any posts where it might be relevant to bugs, unexpected behavior, etc. that you experience.

[s.auler]

When content is created by others, licenses need to be respected. But there is no difference between sharing brushes that need to be imported and the whole brush library. If a license is broken, it is broken either way.

Coming back to the original topic: sharing of assets. The assets I use, are logos and design elements created in respect to our corporate design. There are no license problems whatsoever regarding these and it would be a great benefit for small design teams, if such assets could be shared. Creating junctions is a nice idea for a workaround - I will give this a try.

[Move Along People]

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[Yannick Gaultier]

Hi

@s.auler I can confirm this works fine. I have added Affinity Publisher to the mix since then and its assets and settings are stored in the same location as Affinity Designer due to the junction on the "Affinity" folder. It does allow me switching transparently from desktop to laptop with both software with all settings and assets always being there.

@haakoo That's a workaround but this does not preserve settings, recent files, Studio configuration (which panels to show/hide) etc. 

Using a set path for Affinity storage, one can move around from computer to computer without interruption in the workflow. Hope the ability to set a storage path will be added in the future but junctions/symlink is the next best thing at the moment I think.
 

Cheers

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[Nathan Shirley]

Sorry, where is the "embed assets in document" option?

It would be nice to have all assets, user settings, etc. saved in a single folder that could be synced by a user via Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. for identical use on multiple machines.

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[Nathan Shirley]

I see thanks. After some messing around I finally got it to appear.

Does this make it so assets added in the future are automatically embedded as well, or would the process have to be repeated each time a new asset is added? I'm hoping for the former...

[haralemes]

I'm creating an icon library in Affinity Design for a project. I use mac, but most of the time I continue the project using my iPad. I would love for my devices to access my assets from a single location. For example, my iCloud. Is this still not possible?

It makes me a little tired to keep saving to open on another device, and the worst, sometimes I forget to save, and when I open the other device, they are not there to continue.