New, better way for exporting artboards?

Photoshop UXP Plugin API
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Hi, i wonder if its the better, prettier way now to export artboards, since last solution I found is from 2020

Thanks in advance

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Currently, DOM has still only full canvas export.

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A workaround I come up was to automatically create slices of all artboards before each save and saveforweb with batchplay. Need more steps but it is still faster than using new exportAs.

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I’m curious how your approach compares to File > Export > Artboards to Files…
I won’t be surprised if it’s faster.

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Checking back 2 years later. Are these still our only options for exporting artboards separately in PS?

  1. Split into separate documents per Artboard and save (essentially what the “Artboards to Files…” / “Artboards to PDF…” scripts do) (slow & tedious)
  2. Create Slices + Save for Web (legacy settings, creates many empty images)

Neither seem ideal. Thanks

cc @samgannaway

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I have an app in development that has a full canvas of 400px, but the window is only something like 124px on load. If I draw on the canvas in that first small area and export it as PDF it only exports the visible part, not the 400px full canvas.

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Are you describing exporting only a portion of a document in Photoshop or an HTML Canvas?

If in Photoshop, are you creating this segment with Artboards, Slices, or another method?

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I have an app that has nothing to do with the document. It can even work without a document open. It has a max canvas of 400px, if the window is say at 150px and I draw in the canvas area and then press the export button I create, it can export only the section that is visible in the app panel visible area, not the full 400px width. I used to have it export all of it, but with some work I mangled to get it to only save out the area that has been drawn in. Now this may only work if it’s using the vector based drawing feature, I am not sure. But it definitely only exports the part I am actually drawing in, not the full extents.

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I see, I’m interested in Photoshop documents specifically for this project. Thanks

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I thought Imaging API could help, but apparently, if you aim to export an individual layer, then artboard is an unsupported layer type, and it won’t work.