Skip to content
← Adobe XD: Feature Requests (Read-Only)

Request details

Adobe XD: Feature Requests (Read-Only): 01 : Design mode

Categories

(thinking…)

Drag image to application icon on Dock

In any Adobe app, or most any Mac design app, you can drag an image from your finder, or straight from a browser onto the app icon, and it will open up a canvas with that image sized exactly to the size of that image. Use that feature in fireworks and photoshop daily. However, when doing this with Xd it gives an error. You can drag an image onto the canvas itself from a web browser but dragging onto the icon does not appear to work.

A while back it stopped working with Fireworks too, but Adobe finally fixed it again.

5 votes

We're glad you're here

Please sign in to leave feedback
Signed in as (Sign out)
Close
Close

We’ll send you updates on this idea

Chris shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →

We're glad you're here

Please sign in to leave feedback
Signed in as (Sign out)
Close
Close
Submitting...
An error occurred while saving the comment
  • Chris commented  ·   ·  Report

    While it may "sound" like a feature request this is a bug. The drag image feature is available in all current Adobe products and most third party Mac image products and most all Apple products that support images.

    It was also supported in the original version of Adobe XD (Fireworks) which ultimately this program is a replacement of, albeit a fresh start approach. With Fireworks it worked and then at one point it stopped working and took many months but finally Adobe fixed the bug, then a year or so later happened again and then many months later was finally resolved. There are bug reports in regards to it throughout the adobe forums.

    Hopefully this can be resolved so that XD functions like all current Adobe image products.

  • Dirk Schulze commented  ·   ·  Report

    Thanks for testing and the comment. This sounds rather like a feature request than a bug. Could you please open a feature request for it? Also, could you describe what expectations you would have for the following:

    Adobe Illustrator would create a new document of the size of the last created document and import the image into the newly created document.

    Photoshop would open the dragged image in editing mode.

    What would you expect XD to do? Create a canvas without or with an artboard? If the document should have an artboard, should it have the dimension of the image?

    What if you drag multiple images on the icon, should they be added together to one new document? Should we open a new document for each image as Illustrator does?