Mike Munson Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Is there any way to transfer Designer help files to another computer (or iPad) so that the program and files can be viewed together? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Hello Mike, What help files are you referring to? I know there are video tutorials on the forum section, example Affinity artwork, and a built-in manual through the Help menu. Those second two things come with Designer and not as separate files. What files might you be talking about? Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 What help files are you referring to? I presume Mike is referring to the contents of the *.lproj folders located at ...\DesignerHelp\Contents\Resources (at least on Windows). If so, they're just HTML files and they can therefore be viewed directly in a web browser. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff James Ritson Posted May 26, 2017 Staff Share Posted May 26, 2017 Hey Mike, if you're referring to the in-app help, it's essentially a bundle of HTML files that you can open externally with a web browser. If you're on Mac: Go to Finder > Applications, right click Affinity Designer and choose Show Package Contents. Navigate to Contents > Resources and find AffinityDesigner.help Right click AffinityDesigner.help and choose Show Package Contents Navigate to Contents > Resources and copy Resources to somewhere externally on your drive (e.g. Documents) In the copied Resources folder, find your language (e.g. English UK is English.lproj, English US is en-US.lproj) and navigate into that folder. Open index.html in your preferred web browser. If you're on Windows: Go to Program Files/Affinity/Affinity Designer Navigate to DesignerHelp/Contents/Resources Either copy the Resources folder somewhere externally or you can simply open up the copy in the app's folder Find your language (as mentioned above) Open the language's index.html file in your preferred web browser. Hope that helps. We're hopefully planning to implement some changes for 1.6 (or beyond that) to make things a bit easier for people wanting to access the help externally. As it stands, though, the help is fully responsive and should scale gracefully to different screen sizes, let me know if you have any issues! LilleG 1 Quote Product Expert (Affinity Photo) & Product Expert Team Leader @JamesR_Affinity for tutorial sneak peeks and more Official Affinity Photo tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 James, I'm curious, those files are packaged for each version, right? So if Mike transfers Designer to another computer or iPad, wouldn't they still be there without having to move them? I'm just asking because I don't quite understand how they differ. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 26, 2017 Staff Share Posted May 26, 2017 Hi bleduc, Mike was asking how to transfer just the Help files to another system so he can use them while working on his main machine. He doesn't necessarily want to install the program in other machines. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 ? Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Adding slightly to what James said, on a Mac in Finder you can get to the Resources folder quickly by using Finder's "Go to Folder..." item on the "Go" menu & entering the following path in the 'go to folder' field: /Applications/Affinity Designer.app/Contents/Resources/AffinityDesigner.help/Contents/Resources Note that minimally you will need to copy two of the resource folders to the other computer, whichever one is for your preferred language & the "Shared" folder. (You may want to do this to save a few 10's of MB of drive space on the other computer.) To make it easier to access the help in your browser, you may want to bookmark the file path to the index.html file. For most browses, you can just drag the index file onto the browser icon or into a new browser window. For Safari on a Mac the URL will look something like the following (here for US English): file:///Applications/Affinity%20Designer.app/Contents/Resources/AffinityDesigner.help/Contents/Resources/en-US.lproj/index.html Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 For Safari on a Mac the URL will look something like the following (here for US English): file:///Applications/Affinity%20Designer.app/Contents/Resources/AffinityDesigner.help/Contents/Resources/en-US.lproj/index.html On Windows, the corresponding file is here: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Affinity/Affinity%20Designer/DesignerHelp/Contents/Resources/en-US.lproj/index.html Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Hi bleduc, Mike was asking how to transfer just the Help files to another system so he can use them while working on his main machine. He doesn't necessarily want to install the program in other machines. Ah gotchya. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Munson Posted May 31, 2017 Author Share Posted May 31, 2017 Thanks to all for your comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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