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April 1, 2018
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Live preview only enabled for Mac

  • April 1, 2018
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Against my strong will, I bought a new iPhone today because I naively thought to use live preview in Adobe XD mobile app. However, have just found out that I actually need Mac laptop to use it. Great!!! Also, I sourced some of the UI kits from Sketch resources since the last update the Sketch files should be compatible to be easily imported to XD, but eureka none of the files actually work unless they have been saved in the latest version of Sketch, which is none. Great again! I feel like being discriminated not having unbearable Apple in my life. Is Adobe going to initiate any steps in a near future to fix this?

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    ChannasAuthor
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    April 3, 2018

    Someone must be really out of it. After a big announcement lately of a seamless compatibility between Adobe xd and Protopie, I went go ahead and downloaded to at least get some workarounds for a bunch of limitations in Adobe XD, which seems to be so a dealbreaker. Nevertheless, XD export for Protopie and vice-versa is only available for iMac users!!!!!!  Are these morons from Apple keep sending you weekly bribes to keep windows users out of designing tools? This smell of discrimination no doubt. I have no words.

    Dan Rodney
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    Dan RodneyCommunity Expert
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    April 4, 2018

    Apple is not paying Adobe. It's simply that more designers use Macs, so Adobe prioritizes developing XD for Mac. XD is still maturing and Adobe has to decide what to do first. In time, the Windows version will likely catch up.

    Now you know how us Mac users feel, as we get less priority by Microsoft for Office apps.

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