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John Redhead
John Redhead
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April 22, 2021
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Export Whole Canvas

  • April 22, 2021
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Hi everyone. In the latest build of XD (39.0.12) the Export Whole Canvas has been removed from the export Menu Item, which was still there in (38.1.12). I found this useful to create an overview for clients, along with the individual artboards. I'd have text on the pasteboard next to canvases. Just became a lot easier than exporting individual artboards to illustrator and then position them. to give that overview.

 

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    Correct answer HARSHIKA_VERMA

    Hi All,

     

    There is a quick update on this feature. This feature was experimental and unintentionally made available before being ready for our quality and user experience bar. We're evaluating it for the future, but in the meantime we recommend using prototype sharing instead.

     

    We apologies for any inconvenience.

     

    Thanks,

    Harshika

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    greiss
    Known Participant
    November 10, 2023

    The easiest way I've found is to copy all and paste it into Photoshop.

    max4u
    max4u
    Participating Frequently
    September 15, 2021

    Hi everybody,

    there is a plug-in that helps out – it's called Merge Export and something in chinese which is of course hard to understand 😉 but that doesn't matter.

    Just open your XD-file and click the blue button (whatever it says) without having any of your artboards marked.

    It then merges all your artboards to one big one you then can export. It worked with SVG and PDF (if you stay within the range of a PDF), png and jpg might fail if the file is too big.

    Cheers,

    Max

      Rishabh_Tiwari
      Community Manager
      Rishabh_TiwariCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      September 15, 2021

      Hi there,

       

      Thanks for reaching out and sharing your findings. I am sure this will help other community members. Feel free to participate if you have any other suggestions or feedback.

       

      Regards

      Rishabh

        HARSHIKA_VERMA
        Community Manager
        HARSHIKA_VERMACommunity ManagerCorrect answer
        Community Manager
        August 25, 2021

        Hi All,

         

        There is a quick update on this feature. This feature was experimental and unintentionally made available before being ready for our quality and user experience bar. We're evaluating it for the future, but in the meantime we recommend using prototype sharing instead.

         

        We apologies for any inconvenience.

         

        Thanks,

        Harshika

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          smuxit
          Known Participant
          July 13, 2021

          Just realised this with version 41.1.12.9 ... frustrating. Any reason for this? Removed because of a security issue or a bug? Any workarounds? Maybe Overflow [1] could help ... but, with extra costs. Alternatively, writing a customised plugin [2] might help. Let's see what version 42 brings these days.

           

          [1] https://overflow.io/

          [2] https://adobexdplatform.com/plugin-docs/reference/scenegraph.html

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            smuxit
            Known Participant
            July 30, 2021

            Still not available with version 42.0.22.11 ... Has this feature been removed on purpose, or caused by a bug?

            martini23646994
            martini23646994
            Participant
            June 23, 2021

            It's really annoying that this feature was removed. I have a storyboard for my clients that I want to review the flow for, but exporting individual artboards is totally useless for this. Please bring this feature back as it's basic UX design to be able to review how things flow with clients, and not using the click each artboard way it's limited to now.

              John Redhead
              John RedheadAuthor
              Participant
              June 24, 2021

              I totally agree. It becomes a bind to individually export each artboard, and import them into Illustrator, especially if there are changes made, which you then need to re-export and re-import into illustrator. It was a simple matter of putting notes and lines on the canvas and then cropping the export from XD if needed.

                elegant_leader5EE4
                Community Manager
                elegant_leader5EE4Community Manager
                Community Manager
                April 23, 2021

                Hey John,

                 

                Hope you and your family are doing good during this pandemic!!

                 

                We are really sorry for the issue you are seeing and thanks for highlighting it. We have logged a bug for this to engineering team. We will fix this as sson as possible and you might again get this option in future releases.

                 

                Thanks,

                Nawneet

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                  Stefan5FEC
                  Participant
                  May 14, 2021

                  Hi,

                   

                  this problem still persists in Version 40.0.22. No Export Canvas Option to be found.

                  Please fix this issue. Thanks!

                   

                  BR

                  Stefan

                   

                   

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