With Zeplin, you can publish finalized designs from Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD and Photoshop. Developers get a 'locked' design to build from, while designers can iterate on the next great release. Zeplin is the source of truth for finalized designs, if it's not in Zeplin it won't be in the shipped product. Adobe XD and Zeplin can be categorized as 'Graphic Design' tools. According to the StackShare community, Zeplin has a broader approval, being mentioned in 165 company stacks & 48 developers stacks; compared to Adobe XD, which is listed in 38 company stacks and 44 developer stacks. A video guide on how to export designs from Adobe XD CC to Zeplin.
We've rebuilt the Adobe XD integration from the ground up to fix critical export issues like cloud components exports.
With this brand new integration, Zeplin uses Adobe XD Plugin APIs to export the data and the images out of Adobe XD. This API does have certain known issues and limitations that you should watch out for. 🕵️ We're already in touch with the Adobe team and will keep this list updated as they are changed or fixed!
Make sure to try exporting again if you run into an issue, and if it continues, check if it matches any of the known issues below.
Artboard Size Limits
Zeplin exports artboards and components as 2x by default to support Retina displays. This behavior has an exception for Adobe XD plugin exports.
If you have an artboard/component bigger than 8000x8000 pixels, Zeplin exports it as 1x instead of 2x.
If your artboard/component is bigger than 16000x16000 pixels, due to the technical limitations on Adobe XD Plugin APIs, Zeplin plugin displays an error: 'Your selection contains some artboards over the export limitations'. You need to reduce the size of those artboards/components to export them successfully.
Not launching Zeplin app
If you install the Zeplin plugin in Adobe XD but don't have the Zeplin desktop app installed yet, the plugin won't be able to launch Zeplin once the export process is done. Please download the Zeplin desktop app here and try exporting again:
Grids
With Zeplin, you can publish finalized designs from Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD and Photoshop. Developers get a 'locked' design to build from, while designers can iterate on the next great release. Zeplin is the source of truth for finalized designs, if it's not in Zeplin it won't be in the shipped product. Adobe XD and Zeplin can be categorized as 'Graphic Design' tools. According to the StackShare community, Zeplin has a broader approval, being mentioned in 165 company stacks & 48 developers stacks; compared to Adobe XD, which is listed in 38 company stacks and 44 developer stacks. A video guide on how to export designs from Adobe XD CC to Zeplin.
We've rebuilt the Adobe XD integration from the ground up to fix critical export issues like cloud components exports.
With this brand new integration, Zeplin uses Adobe XD Plugin APIs to export the data and the images out of Adobe XD. This API does have certain known issues and limitations that you should watch out for. 🕵️ We're already in touch with the Adobe team and will keep this list updated as they are changed or fixed!
Make sure to try exporting again if you run into an issue, and if it continues, check if it matches any of the known issues below.
Artboard Size Limits
Zeplin exports artboards and components as 2x by default to support Retina displays. This behavior has an exception for Adobe XD plugin exports.
If you have an artboard/component bigger than 8000x8000 pixels, Zeplin exports it as 1x instead of 2x.
If your artboard/component is bigger than 16000x16000 pixels, due to the technical limitations on Adobe XD Plugin APIs, Zeplin plugin displays an error: 'Your selection contains some artboards over the export limitations'. You need to reduce the size of those artboards/components to export them successfully.
Not launching Zeplin app
If you install the Zeplin plugin in Adobe XD but don't have the Zeplin desktop app installed yet, the plugin won't be able to launch Zeplin once the export process is done. Please download the Zeplin desktop app here and try exporting again:
Grids
Due to the technical limitations on Adobe XD Plugin APIs, it's not possible to get grid data for now.
Hope these help, let us know at support@zeplin.io if you're still having an issue!
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