symbols!

[jrusselll]

hard to survive without them.  

[TonyB]

Symbols are on our roadmap. They will be in a post release free update and will be more powerful than any symbol feature I have seen before.

[jrusselll]

that is great news!

[jrusselll]

external/sharable library of symbols would be great, too.  

[ChrisP]

Any thoughts on adding animation ability one day?

[Dale]

 

Any thoughts on adding animation ability one day?

 

Tony can give a better idea about this, but another team member thought it could happen in the future in another product in the suite (not as part of Affinity Designer).

[boudewijndanser]

Great! Symbols / movieclips are one of my favourite things when drawing in Flash. 

Helps keeping things organized.

I'm hoping there will be layers in the AF symbols? 

[azhr]

+1 for symbols!

[DeepShader]

Do we talk about Symbols like this one?

[DeepShader]

Symbols are on our roadmap. They will be in a post release free update and will be more powerful than any symbol feature I have seen before.

 

Is it possible to see the roadmap on your website? I think this would be great for a lot of us :)

[TonyB]

It's at the top of the feature requests forum section.

[DeepShader]

To stupid :D Thank you :)

[boudewijndanser]

I really like how symbols work in Flash. Why?

• They have layers (The lack of that in AI makes them useless for me...)
• When you double click you edit them in place
• When you edit in place the rest of the stage fades, making clear: You're working on the items in this movieclip now, the rest matters less but is still visible.
• The option to switch between the view modes (View / preview / antialias / full).

 

 

 

[CartoonMike]

Adding some way to tile the symbols would be a great.

[boudewijndanser]

Is there an ETA on symbols?

The lack of symbols still has me closing down AD and opening Flash at times.  ;)

[AshTeriyaki]

Symbols are on our roadmap. They will be in a post release free update and will be more powerful than any symbol feature I have seen before.

 

 

Can you elaborate Tony?*

 

*You should totally add a 9 slice equivalent btw

[boudewijndanser]

Not asking for a date, but any news on symbols?  :rolleyes:

[Dave Harris]

Nobody is currently working on symbols. They are one of many features we'd like to get done this year, but they won't be early this year.

[CartoonMike]

When symbols do arrive, I know they will be worth the wait. Yes, indeedy! 

[boudewijndanser]

Thanks! Good to know. 

[pppixel]

I will do literally ANYTHING for symbols.

 

9 slice symbols perhaps??

[TonyB]

 

9 slice symbols perhaps??

 

We hope so. We have already done most of the work for symbols but we haven't decided how 9 slices grids will work yet.

[boudewijndanser]

Nice! Looking forward to symbols.

Do they have layers like in Flash?  :)

[erpel]

yeahi! symbols! looking so forward to it ... and does AD import symbols from AI-files? this would be best news ever ....

[AshTeriyaki]

I'd personally prefer to see sketch style symbols