r/AffinityDesigner

Exporting unified layers across artboards

Does anyone know how to unify the layers across all artboards for export?

I'm creating printable sewing patterns for which the end user needs to be able to toggle off the visibility of sizes they don't need to display and print only their size. The pattern spans multiple pages/artboards so that it can be printed on a home printer and taped together to create the larger image.

I have each size arranged as a container layer that sits above the artboards layers, and within the program it works as expected, but on export the layers are duplicated for each page/artboard meaning that the end user would have to scroll through each page and deselect the layers on every one (20 in the case of the pattern I'm currently working on.)

In Adobe this feature was easy and seamless to execute, and as much as I don't want to go back to Adobe this will be a dealbreaker for me professionally if there's no workaround.

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u/Exciting_Weekend3763 — 2 days ago
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Free tool to convert Procreate/Photoshop/GIMP palettes to Affinity .ase format

Been wanting a way to bring my Procreate palettes into Affinity without manually re-entering every color. Built a small tool that handles the conversion — drop in a .swatches, .aco, or .gpl file and export it as .ase. Works the other way too if you want to take an Affinity palette somewhere else.

Beyond palette conversion it also has a screen eyedropper (Alt+P), a color harmony generator, WCAG contrast checker.

Standalone .exe in the Releases section if you don't want to deal with python.

github.com/sort0m/Color-tools

u/MrRockker7 — 3 days ago