NielsKM Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 I can't seem to find a way to order my slices in Affinity Designer Export Persona - I mean in the right side Slices tab (next to layers). I would expect it to be possible to simply drag slices up/down as you do with layers in Draw Persona. Thanks, Niels KM Fun Art Sam and ressu 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Hi NielsKM, Welcome to the forums This is something that has been requested previously on our forums - see below - and is something we may add in a future update! In the meatine, I'll move this thread to Feature Requests & Feedback D.VE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NielsKM Posted June 3, 2019 Author Share Posted June 3, 2019 OK, thanks Dan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommiePinko Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 It's always a pleasure to go looking for a much needed feature and find it was promised years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 9 hours ago, CommiePinko said: It's always a pleasure to go looking for a much needed feature and find it was promised years ago. Where do you see a promise? Dan said "we may add in a future update". "May" is not a definite commitment. It's still the future. Alfred 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 32 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: It's still the future. Without the benefit of time travel it’s always going to be in the future! walt.farrell 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 10 hours ago, CommiePinko said: much needed feature Under the term "much needed feature", I personally imagine functions without which something cannot be done in principle, or only very complicatedly. Reordering Slices, which do not make export impossible, I personally consider a "cosmetic" feature, for which I expect a very low priority (compared to other really critical ones). Alfred 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexkoch Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 Hi Affinity, hi forum I've run into a buch of issues with the Export Persona which I would like to share and add some thoughts/proposals… My workflow/setup was to set up a larger (~6K) canvas where I would paste one picture at a time and (re-)position predefined slices on it within the Export Persona. All slices have a fixed aspect ratio and several export sizes attached to them (1x1, 16x9, 3x2, 4x3… in 2500w, 1600w, 1200w etc.). As you may have guessed I'm exporting sets of images for responsive web html to be used in picture/srcset context. Things I ran into: It is hard to see which slice is active header bars and all slices equally visible makes it hard to position slices Slices can't be reordered in the panel batch-renaming or more path-component options would be useful (filename, timestamps…) path name components: user variables/tokens I can't get to work, they just vanish after typing them in layer palette (EP) only allows for changes to visibility, no moving fixed aspect ratio in slice palette transform tool seems not to do anything (chain symbol for width and height) shift-scaling (which does provide fixed aspect ratio) introduces rounding errors after some back and forth, slightly missing aspect ratio again Arrow and Slice-Pointer behave somewhat counterintuitive; arrow only activates layers, but won't switch to the layers tab; Add-Slice-Pointer moves slices also Some proposals: dim non-active slices in EP view, hide header bar add group-align features (left, right, center, top, middle, bottom) for selected slices make local path-components/tokens available in all slices ("myNewToken" instantly available in all path-composer instances… (per document)) allow for repositioning of layers in "Layers" tab in EP (idea: arrow pointer 😀) fix fixed-aspect-ratio function ("Transform" tab) – once set, scaling of a slice stays constrained please please add WebP format options in EP come up with a super smart idea on how to handle the even pixels/aspect ratio dilemma (I would prefer an "enforce even pixel over aspect ratio" and "enforce aspect ratio over single pixel scaling precision" toggle, which I would set to the latter an never touch again) Sorry for the moaning, I literally just lost a day of work due to some aspect ratio glitches, which left me with 250+ exported images, which ever so slightly made my pages jump – because 16x9 ended up being 16x9.1754, and even 1x1 went sideways in some cases… In case anyone is wondering: I absolutely love all Affinity software and evangelize everywhere… best Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Media Lab Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 Hi @alexkoch Alex, Your example with the construction building image shows that you don't understand how it works.😉! The easiest way to accomplish what you want is making pre-sets for all art directions (in my example (header portrait for phone) (header wide for all other devices even phone landscape mode). In this case it's ment to be used for a header. When you look on top of the exports panel there is even a copy paste function, so you can create one size with the name and then change the size and/or the text. I agree the missing webp is a real pity!!! What I do in the pre-sets with the naming is for example header-contact-4-3-1200px, header-contact-4-3-800px, header-contact-4-3-500px then I make a folder named contact-header that contains a folder webp and jpg. That way you can use the pre-sets for every header you make in the future without specific naming. And placing the link names in the website becomes more easy, for example in Sublime Text you can multi select the names that have to be changed and the rest of the link name stays the same. You have to be sure to crop the exact pixel ratio before going to the export mode! There is no cropping necessary in the export mode! Like said you only crop one image for every art direction before going to the export persona. In my example 2 images. Regards, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexkoch Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Hi Thanks for your response, All Media Lab David (I'll skip over the part where you suggest I didn't understand the Export Persona and Slices concept.) You are suggesting having several Versions of the source file, being different documents in different aspect ratios. Which is fine, but not exactly better or less work, and since the results would be the same it comes down to personal preference. And by all means, do it that way, no problem. My point is that AP does work the way I used it (for years, actually) — support for more than one slice per document hints at that — and some UI functions are broken or difficult to work with. E.g. proportional scaling not working (despite icon changing in the Transform palette) is a glitch, at best. And it made me loose quite some work. The main features/non-features (loosing the ar-constraints, not easily seeing which slice is active, no way to re-sort slice-layers) drove me to use Sketch for these multi export scenarios. Works super reliable. Not as cute as the seal, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forteskun Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Hi, any news on this feature? It's still not possible to rearrange slices? LWC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexkoch Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 No, stayed the same. I'm not sure how to attract attention to this topic, I would add the freezing exports when WebP is chosen as export format (already on this forum, different thread) Unfortunately we are at Version 2.0 by now, but some (all?) of the UI-bugs mentioned in my post are still present; it looks like the Export Module got new file formats (WebP) but everything else remained untouched. I always forget about the freezing issue, head over to the Export Persona (instead of using "my" workaround via Sketch) — sigh… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.VE Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Any update on this topic? There is much room for improvement at the Export Persona... LWC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 On 3/16/2023 at 10:55 AM, alexkoch said: No, stayed the same. I'm not sure how to attract attention to this topic, I would add the freezing exports when WebP is chosen as export format (already on this forum, different thread) Unfortunately we are at Version 2.0 by now, but some (all?) of the UI-bugs mentioned in my post are still present; it looks like the Export Module got new file formats (WebP) but everything else remained untouched. I always forget about the freezing issue, head over to the Export Persona (instead of using "my" workaround via Sketch) — sigh… 9 minutes ago, D.VE said: Any update on this topic? There is much room for improvement at the Export Persona... This thread is in the ‘Feedback for the Affinity V1 Products [ARCHIVE]’ section of the forums. A new V2 thread is more likely to attract attention. D.VE 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 17 hours ago, Alfred said: This thread is in the ‘Feedback for the Affinity V1 Products [ARCHIVE]’ section of the forums. A new V2 thread is more likely to attract attention. Serif has already announced that there is no need to duplicate threads from V1 and create more in V2. If necessary, the topic will be moved to V2. D.VE and Alfred 1 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Thanks for raising this, I've moved the thread to the V2 section as required D.VE and Alfred 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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