Adobe XD: Feature Requests
We love to get feature requests for Adobe XD! You can view existing feature requests, vote on them and add your comments, or you can submit a new feature request.
While creating a new feature request, please include:
- Description of the feature
- Why this is valuable to you
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Export Measurements for Developers
Now that Adobe XD allows designers to measure all their elements. There's still the problem of having to deliver the design to the developers. They always require a spec sheet with the measurements. They don't want to download Adobe XD because they think it's hard to use, and would rather have a PDF opened instead.
It would be great to have a feature where I can have the measurements present itself on the page when I export to PDF, instead of having to manually type in the measurements as well as drawing the lines between the elements of my app…
737 votesWe’ve released the Design Specs feature in our November release this week as a Beta. You can now publish a Design Spec directly from XD, and your developer can get measurements of objects by selecting the object from the detail view of the screen. We’re working on additional functionality for this feature and are looking for feedback, so please try it out and file new feature requests in this area against the Design Specs feature area.
Thanks,
-Elaine
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Copy from XD & paste into Illustrator (or Photoshop)
For any given vector pieces, to be able to copy from XD and cut to illustrator. We can do it in the other way for now, but it would be great if it could work the other way too.
To rework an icon for example, or trick an object with more advanced tools like in illustrator. Why ? It's faster than to export to svg and export it back again. It would also allow to keep your objects scaled the same way.
625 votesThis feature is now available in the March release! If you don’t see an update, select the … icon in the Creative Cloud desktop app and select “Check for App Updates.” If you have further feedback on this feature, please feel free to file a new ticket!
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Global reusable text styles & export text style guide
It would be useful to be able to label text styles as paragraph, h1, h2, link etc and then be able to export a text file that would include all of those styles to pass on to the developer
445 votesHi, all! In our August release, we’ve introduced our Assets Panel, which allows you to aggregate specific styles in one place for reuse. You can read more about this new feature here: https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/august-update-of-adobe-xd/
We do have a separate story about handing off to developers here, which you should upvote if you care about the handoff part of things: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/12951915-generate-specs-measurements-style-guide-for-de
Let us know what you think in a new idea here in UserVoice.
-Elaine
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PDF Export - compression options to reduce file size
Exported PDF are too big. Please add compression options like InDesign.
396 votesAs of XD version 26, exported PDF file size is down by up to 90%, while retaining the current quality level.
Thank you for all your feedback!
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Export to After Effects to add animation
The best animation tool... gotta communicate with AE like PS
385 votesHi everyone,
I’m happy to announce that with version 13 you can export your designs from XD to After Effects. Layers, artboards, symbols, groups and artwork are transferred as editable and with great visual fidelity.
Here’s how it works:
1. In XD, select the layers or artboards you want to animate in After Effects.
2. Go to: File> Export > After Effects. If After Effects is not installed on your machine, this option is greyed out. You can also use the ⌥⌘F (Mac), or Ctrl+Alt+F (Windows) keyboard shortcuts.
3. The selected layers or artboards are added as native shapes, texts, assets, and nested compositions in your AE project.Here’s the list with what’s supported and not supported at this time: https://helpx.adobe.com/ro/xd/kb/open-after-effects-files-in-xd.html
Thanks for voting this feature and let us know how it works!
Best,
Dan Tuhoarca -
Adobe XD to Flutter
It will be great to add an export option from Adobe XD to flutter
322 votesAdobe XD to Flutter Plugin
https://medium.com/flutter/announcing-adobe-xd-support-for-flutter-4b3dd55ff40e
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Shared XD libraries
Need to share Adobe XD assets library to other CC users. Not only Illustrator CC libraries, but XD colors/fonts/symbols lybraries. It's a must!
212 votesHi everyone,
With XD May release, now you could create a single source of truth for all your colors, character styles, and components in an XD cloud document and reuse all your assets in your XD documents.
With the linked assets feature, you can easily share and consume not only components — or what was formerly known as symbols — but colors and character styles as well. This is incredibly handy if you are sharing sticker sheet with your team or reuse design elements across projects.
Linked Assets complement the workflow of linked components. When you modify a linked asset in the source document, all the consuming documents with those linked assets receive update notifications. From there, you can choose preview and accept the updates.
Please give it a try and let’s us know what you think
To learn more about this feature check out:
letsxd.com/whats-new
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Export to JPG (JPEG)
We often send clients JPGs to show them the design, would be good to be able to export individual/all artboards (like in illustrator).
203 votesWe’re pleased to announce that JPG export is now available in the November release of Adobe XD. If you don’t see the update in the Creative Cloud desktop application, click on the three dots in the upper right hand corner of the application and select “Check for App Updates.” If you’re looking for improvements on this feature, please do file a new request!
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Remember names of exported assets
I like the idea that you simplify layers and groups. But when we come to code flow, renaming all assets after export is very waste of time.
142 votesNow that we have a layers panel, you can name your objects and groups in order to control the asset names on export.
-Elaine
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Export Assets as PDF
Add PDF to list of export options for Vector assets in addition to just SVG.
PDF contain embedded sizing information (in points), allowing assets to be used directly in iOS with no manual rasterization necessary.
This would allow an iOS/OSX developer to export vector assets just once, and import directly into XCAssets library immediately with no intermediate steps.
Here's how this is accomplished with Illustrator today: http://martiancraft.com/blog/2014/09/vector-images-xcode6/
104 votesOur July release will have options to export selected artboards or assets to a single PDF or multiple PDF files.
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1 click exporting of assets
Currently if I design mobile app assets at 1x I have to rescale individual assets at different sizes to export them seperately per platform.
I'd really like to see a one click export for both platforms from a 1x designed screen. 1x screesn are key when testing and there isn't an option setup a project at different scales.
Majority of my assets are vector, especially for the all important app iconography.
Photoshop has something like this at the moment be great to see something like this in XD.
Thanks
45 votesWe currently have this feature built into the export in Adobe XD. You can export, select the device type, and then click on export for multiple versions. You can also now batch export by marking an asset or a group for batch export, then select Export > Batch.
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[Windows] name export svg
It's cool that we now have the option of exporting SVG files with the february update - But unless I'm blind it does not seem like there is any option to name the file that one wants to export? It would be very nice if it was possible to choose a custom filename like "car.svg" rather than "Path 823.svg" for instance.
44 votesYou can now name your layers in the May Windows 10 release, which will allow you to export your SVG to a custom name.
-Elaine
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[Windows] Export SVG
I'd like to be able to export SVG so that I can output my vector artwork.
27 votesYou can now export SVG in the February release of Adobe XD for Windows 10. Check it out: go to the Creative Cloud desktop application, select the gear, and click “Check for App Updates.”
-Elaine
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[Windows] Export to PDF
I'd like to be able to export my assets and artboards to PDF.
24 votesYou can now export to PDF in the Windows version of Adobe XD. To check out the latest version, go to the Creative Cloud desktop app! If you don’t see the update, you can select the gear and click on “Check for App Updates.”
-Elaine
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Export to JPEG @2x (JPG)
The title says it. Since the original request for "Export to JPG" (https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/12942069-export-to-jpg) was completed, though not fully, I'm adding this request to add exporting of JPEG @2x resolution.
20 votesHi,
Since version 5.0 – february release – you can export JPG at 2x as well.
Cheers,
M. -
Exporting assets for iOS and Android
When we have 25+ icons on the all artboards, we must have a command to export all the icons in one single click which will save a lot of time.
8 votesHi,
Starting with XD 4.0, you can mark an object for export. You can then export all marked objects in a single operation using File → Export→ Export batch or shortcut Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + E.
Hope it helps.
Cheers,
M. -
Export to PDF - Option for 2x Bitmaps inside (or don't downsample at all)
Many times when exporting to PDF, while most assets may be vector there are some bitmap assets included (think a thumbnail image inside a UI)... while I have control over the pixel density at design time (I can use a larger bitmap and scale down) when I export, it always downsamples the image to 1x. Would be good to either downsample to 2x or not at all.
8 votesWe made a fix that landed in our June 2017 release! Please do check it out and let us know what you think.
-Elaine
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Select which assets to include and exclude in an export
Being able to choose which files to export and NOT export would be great. So that you can easily re-export all images of a UI without hand-picking every file you want to export. So a tag for include/exclude....(!) Should also work with groups so that groups of buttons and text can exclude the text in an export process.
4 votesHi,
Starting with XD 4.0 you can mark for export individual assets and export them in a format of your choice. Marking can be done using the layers panel. After marking, you can select the following menu sequence File →Export→Batch or shortcut Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + E.
Hope it helps.
Cheers,
M. -
Copy from XD and paste as a raster image (bitmap) in other app
This is straight taken from my Sketch workflow. In Sketch, when you copy an artboard, the pastable asset is a raster version of your artboard. This allows to quickly paste a work in progress to a Trello card or Slack channel/conversation. This also negates having to export an asset for nothing, saving time and reducing project clutter in general.
As of now,
4 votesThis feature was added in our July update of Adobe XD – so if you’re on the latest, you should be able to copy-paste as a raster image into apps like Trello & Slack already.
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XD file shared to Creative Cloud is not very useful yet
When your XD file synces automatically to CC Cloud files it is in a unreadable format. Taking up space while unusable. Please fix this or just don't have them sync. I realize easier to share on another computer with XD on it but I don't think it should be the default to automatically share unless it shared as a JPEG at the very least.
4 votesYou can now load files from the Creative Cloud to your mobile device, allowing you to view network files on your iOS or Android device. Check it out today!
-Elaine
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