Ulaxes Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 As a user I like to define symbols and then alter the text of the instances. This would vastely improve the reusability of symbols. (See Adobe XD, Gravit Designer) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Type some text Go to the symbols panel Click Create Drag a few symbols onto the workspace Edit text, all symbols change Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulaxes Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 (edited) Okay, sorry. I probably didn't phrase my feedback correctly. I would like to type a unique text for each symbol instance. The key issue here is that all symbols will share the same text content. Here's an example from Adobe XD: So each of the symbol instance can have it unique text content, but you can also overwrite the changes in the master symbol. Edited March 7, 2019 by Ulaxes hawk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawk Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 You can disable sync in the symbols panel to change individual symbols' text, but there's no way to propagate it to other symbols after that, or to re-sync. I would like to see those options come to Affinity. Quote ♥️Affinity v2; macOS 14; ⌨️🖱; recreational user since 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulaxes Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 (edited) Syncing or re-syncing are really useful. However, my suggestion is you can alter the text of each instance, while keeping the style. Here's me doing a quick example in Gravit Designer, Adobe XD and I think Sketch have similar possiblities: Untitled - Gravit Designer 2019-03-07 18-59-44.mp4 Edited March 7, 2019 by Ulaxes hawk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 I get ya, have a symbol and disable sync on any element within that symbol, so disable sync on the text but everything else remains in sync. At the moment you can't expand the symbol within the symbol panel to edit in this way but I think the symbol feature needs a major rework to put it on top. Ulaxes and Heitor 2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulaxes Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 @firstdefence thanks for the advice, good to know you can do this. Yeah, I'd love to see Affinity Designer improve the symbol feature and get it on par with the other top design tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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