Ariana M Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Is there any way to get this variable data function to work in any affinity product - designer or photo? i do tshirt designs, so simple things like: in simplest iteration, change to generate output PNG files from just I love X to many options (using csv file list of X) i love cats / i love dogs / i love horses / i love etc etc etc here's the illustrator functionality: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/data-driven-graphics-templates-variables.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted July 12, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 12, 2018 Hi @Ariana M, Welcome to the forums. I'm afraid we do not support variables, nor importing data from a CSV into fields. I've moved this to feature requests. Thanks, Gabe. Ariana M 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 AFAIK, the 2 Affinity apps do not do data merges of any kind, or data imports at this point. For the example you gave, there is a method that is fairly easy. Create some text strings, "I love" "X", "X", "X". Make each a symbol. The "X"s can be renamed animal1, animal2.... Save those symbols as assets. The symbols on the page can be changed all at once. But when the symbol asset is pulled back into the document, it is still in its original form "X", and can be changed to have different text and/or new sets of attributes. This can be done w. any number of items. Ariana M 1 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariana M Posted July 16, 2018 Author Share Posted July 16, 2018 @gdenby wow, thanks for the suggestion. i'll need to google/search around a bit to fully understand all the features i'll need to use (admitted newbie here) but I'll work on that, and appreciate your spending time coming up with a possible solution and giving me a screenshot to work from in my further research! thanksagain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 You are welcome. 6 minutes ago, Ariana M said: @gdenby wow, thanks for the suggestion. i'll need to google/search around a bit to fully understand all the features i'll need to use (admitted newbie here) but I'll work on that, and appreciate your spending time coming up with a possible solution and giving me a screenshot to work from in my further research! thanksagain Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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