Exporting for Invision (with Craft) and Zeplin has critical problems

[delizade]

Hello everyone,

First of all huge thank you for the grate plugin that changed my design workflow totally. In currently I had to use it for a huge project. But we've been struggling to solve exporting issues for Invision and especially Zeplin. Project has currently 30 pages and we are continuing to add new designs because of the weekly delivery deadlines.

When we tried to export, page layouts are being exported as broken/altered. Currently Anima App team is working for it we know and thanks for that but we thought that may be it was solved thanks to using some magical tricks :/ by other designers.

Do you have any solutions for that?

thank you.

[orarbel]

Hi @delizade, can you upload a Sketch file that has the issue?

Is it only in Stacks? or also pins?

[orangefult]

I'm experiencing this as well. I think it happens when more than on symbol at a time is detached. If you do it one at a time it seems to work alright.

So... although it will be a pain in the rear, you could manually go through and detatch all your symbols one at a time, then upload to Invision/Zepplin, and then use cmd-z like crazy.

This gif is me detatching symbols one at a time, you can see when I detach the stretched "ugly button" it kind of bounces back into place.

However, when I select all the symbols on the page and say "Detach from Symbol" they don't bounce back.

[avishic]

Hey guys! Until we fix the multiple selection:

Select your artboards, use detach recursive, screenshot attached. It will detach everything in 1 action-> Single undo :)

[delizade]

Hi everyone, @orarbel Sorry because of our fully dedicated working days I couldnt share documents here. @orangefult thank you. unfortunately that way may work for small projects but we can not use it.

@avishic I think we tried it but not sure I will try it to see result to be clear. thank you so much.

I will tey to share as much as detailed cases. I hıpe we can solve this before development delivery. And we have a huge horror about that phase for now:/

[avishic]

@delizade @orangefult Until the official release here's the patch fix:

https://cl.ly/1O3K3q2e1C0q

• Restart Sketch after install

[delizade]

Hi, Thank you for your efforts. I tested it new ver. but unfortunately it cant be done as recursively and same issues we have. I tried detach recursively

thank you again

Test-DetachSymbols.sketch.zip

[avishic]

Thanks @delizade ! We'll fix it too, the case here is that the stack is the only item in the symbol. Workaround: group the stack in the symbol (screenshot)

[avishic]

@delizade it went smoother then we thought, here's the patch fix: https://cl.ly/2B2q312U400z

• Restart Sketch

We've also fixed "Prepare export for other plugins" option that broke on Sketch 49. Let us know all went smooth this time :)

[delizade]

Hi @avishic I can’t find a word for thank you. It seems okay now. I will be deep test later. Thank you so much!

[chsWeb]

I am still having major problems with this issue, however I am still on Sketch 48. Do we have to upgrade to Sketch 49 to get Auto Layout working as expected?

When trying detach symbols or "Prepare export to other plugins" that stacked groups break and resort all over the place. You can see the before and after attached - whether I chose to detach or prepare export, the same things break.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

[delizade]

Hi @avishic , I prepared a sample file to show one of my problems. It is similar problem with @chsWeb i think.

AutoLayout-Problem.sketch.zip

[delizade]

@chsWeb it seems that this issue may related to Auto Text fields. I tried Fixed rather than Auto and it prevent this problem.

[orarbel]

@delizade I've found something similar. Can you share more about your findings regarding the Fixed/Auto Text Layers issue?

[delizade]

Sadly we’ve decided to remove auto layout groups completly from about 90 arboards. It will take a huge time but after testing latest version of autolayout we experienced minor and major many problems when using detaching or “prepare for other plugins” to send to Zeplin.

[chsWeb]

@delizade same here, have abandoned Auto Layout and shifted to Paddy.

To speed the process up, you can use the Unstack Group Short cut and the Rename layer plugin to apply Paddy in Auto layout's place.

[chsWeb]

@delizade I found that if I was using Auto Layout Pinning, it was causing problems with Craft Sync. For example, if a I have a input, made of a text symbol and a shape symbol, where the text symbol was pinned to the left edge, when syncing to InVision, the text would be cropped.

Sketch is a bit painful without Auto Layout… I do hope you are able to sort these bugs out. I do understand that it is very complicated.

[orarbel]

We are releasing a version today that has critical fixes in the "Export to other plugins" feature.

Let us know if it works for you: https://cl.ly/081l2a3f0O1y/AnimaTookitPlugin.zip

(Restart Sketch after installing)

[delizade]

@chsWeb thank you for your suggestions I will look into it. @orarbel thank you as well when I find a time I will look new version and let you know result.

[delizade]

Hi @orarbel here is one of our artboard situation. We can't check all but I think sharing one of them better than nothing :) thank you.

Sketch file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8bo2b61m5p1ssd0/test-08.sketch?dl=1

[avishic]

@delizade thanks for the file! With the latest beta it works for me :)

https://cl.ly/1m2R2v2i2X1w

• Restart Sketch after install

Could you make sure all work well?

[delizade]

Hi everyone! this is a crazy news because I forgot to restart Sketch yesterday!

I did it now, I checked them and currently I want to cry, everything seems perfect!

So now, we will rearrange some artboards that we have removed plugin and we will send them to Zeplin.

@avishic thank you again!

[chsWeb]

I installed the latest version of the plugin and restarted Sketch, and I still have the same problems.

I am on macOS Sierra and Sketch 48.2 - does the new plugin fix only work in the latest macOS and latest Sketch, or should it also work in all supported versions of macOS/Sketch?

[stigmates]

Still critical issues. Can't use autolayout anymore. Too much time loose when exporting to zeplin.

[SimonFricker]

+1 this is still an issue