Does batch export exist in Affinity Photo?

[All Media Lab]

Hi,

Have about 50 .afphoto files that I have to export to jpeg. Is it possible to batch process this and how do I achieve this?

Regards & Thanks,

David

[carl123]

From the menus...

File > New Batch Job

[All Media Lab]

Thanks!

David

[dogonpremise]

Hi I'm trying to batch export old psd files into jpgs for the first time and I seem to be following the right steps but I can go no further or start the job as the "OK" button in bottom right corner is greyed out. What am I not doing?

[kirkt]

@dogonpremise - Click on the Authorize button and see if that helps.

Kirk

[Alfred]

Have you specified a ‘Save into:’ location (via the ‘...’ button)? Have you tried entering W and H values, perhaps 100% for each if you want the original dimensions to be used?

[R C-R]

24 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Have you specified a ‘Save into:’ location (via the ‘...’ button)? Have you tried entering W and H values, perhaps 100% for each if you want the original dimensions to be used?

From the file path info in the screenshot, it looks like @dogonpremise is running the Mac version of AP.

Although the Batch jobs help topic does not mention or even show an "Authorize" button (which it should), I think it is necessary to click that button on the first launch of a batch job to enable creating one, at least for the MAS version of AP.

[dogonpremise]

yep, selected via authorization folder and still no way to go forward.

[MEB]

Hi dogonpremise,
Welcome to affinity Forums
What macOS version are you running?

[dogonpremise]

thanks for the welcome I'm a little behind because of my sentimental affection for some 32 bit apps, so I'm running Mojave 

[dogonpremise]

yes I did via authorize file location selection

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, dogonpremise said:

yes I did via authorize file location selection

Does that mean you clicked the "Authorize..." button in the Batch Job window?

If not, try that.

[dogonpremise]

yes I clicked the authorize button and selected destination folder.

[R C-R]

45 minutes ago, dogonpremise said:

yes I clicked the authorize button and selected destination folder.

What (if anything) happened when you clicked the button?

[dogonpremise]

I click the authorize button, select destination folder then nothing, the OK button on the bottom right hand corner remains greyed out, which brings me to my initial question what else is there for me to do for the ok button to become active. 

[R C-R]

I don't know what is preventing your OK button from becoming active. On my Mac, the "Authorize..." button is greyed out, I think because I only had to authorize the batch process once to get it work every time, but I am not sure about that.

That was so long ago that I don't remember much about it but I also think it had nothing to do with selecting a destination folder, that it was just a 'one shot' global authorization that the Mac App Store version of AP required to allow the app to write anything outside its application sandbox, sort of like the "Authorize Global" button in the Photoshop plugins preference.

[dogonpremise]

Hi  R C R and Alfred,

To Alfred's question I thought I did not have to put a size value, but taking your advice I went ahead and entered 100 in each box, although that did not make a difference with regards making the ok button active.

And To R C R when I click on the authorization button it opens a " choose destination" dialog box, then I choose destination folder and the dialog box closes, and everything is as pictured above in my screenshot, with the ok button greyed out still. I do not need to apply a macro, but I went ahead and selected one just to see what would happen, and it had no affect on making the ok button active, I am out of ideas.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, dogonpremise said:

... I am out of ideas.

I pretty much am out of ideas, too. The only thing I can think of is this somehow may have something to do with where you are trying to save the output of the batch job, like maybe to a folder you do not have write access to from your user account or on a cloud-based server or something.

Is there anything like that you can think of that might be relevant here?

[dogonpremise]

Hi R C R, alas this is my personal iMac Pro and working natively, no cloud or vpn. Thank You for you efforts though.