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  2. Introduction
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    3. Design, prototype, and share with Adobe XD
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    1. Artboards, guides, and layers
      1. Get started with artboards
      2. Use guides and grids
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      5. Create scroll groups
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      3. Group, lock, duplicate, copy, and flip objects
      4. Set stroke, fill, and drop shadow for objects
      5. Create repeating elements
      6. Create perspective designs with 3D transforms
      7. Edit objects using Boolean operations
    3. Text and fonts
      1. Work with drawing and text tools
      2. Fonts in Adobe XD
    4. Components and states
      1. Work with components
      2. Work with nested components
      3. Add multiple states to components
    5. Masking and effects
      1. Create a mask with shapes
      2. Work with blur effects
      3. Create and modify gradients
      4. Apply blend effects
    6. Layout
      1. Responsive resize and constraints
      2. Set fixed padding for components and groups
      3. Create dynamic designs with stacks
    7. Videos and Lottie animations
      1. Work with videos
      2. Create prototypes using videos
      3. Work with Lottie animations
  4. Prototype
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    2. Animate prototypes
    3. Object properties supported for auto-animate
    4. Create prototypes with keyboard and gamepad
    5. Create prototypes using voice commands and playback
    6. Create timed transitions
    7. Add overlays
    8. Design voice prototypes
    9. Create anchor links
    10. Create hyperlinks
    11. Preview designs and prototypes
  5. Share, export, and review
    1. Share selected artboards
    2. Share designs and prototypes
    3. Set access permissions for links
    4. Work with prototypes
    5. Review prototypes
    6. Work with design specs
    7. Share design specs
    8. Inspect design specs
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    10. Review and comment design specs
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    12. Export and download assets from design specs
    13. Group sharing for enterprise
    14. Back up or transfer XD assets
  6. Design systems
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    3. Work with Creative Cloud Libraries in Adobe XD
    4. Migrate from linked assets to Creative Cloud Libraries
    5. Work with design tokens 
    6. Use assets from Creative Cloud Libraries
  7. Cloud documents
    1. Cloud documents in Adobe XD
    2. Collaborate and coedit designs
    3. Coedit documents shared with you
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    3. Copy and paste assets from Photoshop
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    7. Copy vectors from Illustrator to XD
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    10. Jira integration for XD
    11. Slack plugin for XD
    12. Zoom plug-in for XD
    13. Publish design from XD to Behance
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    1. Preview on mobile devices
    2. Adobe XD on mobile FAQ
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    1. Known and fixed issues
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      1. XD appears as not compatible on Windows
      2. Error code 191
      3. Error code 183
      4. Issues installing XD plugins
      5.  Prompt to uninstall and reinstall XD on Windows 10
      6. Issues with preferences migration
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      1.  XD crashes when launched on Windows 10
      2.  XD quits when you sign out of Creative Cloud
      3. Issue with subscription status on Windows
      4. Blocked-app warning when launching  XD on Windows
      5. Crash dump generation on Windows
      6. Crash log collection and sharing
    4. Cloud documents and Creative Cloud Libraries
      1. Issues with XD cloud documents
      2. Issues with linked components
      3. Issues with libraries and links
    5. Prototype, publish, and review
      1. Unable to record prototype interactions on macOS Catalina
      2. Issues with publish workflows
      3. Published  links do not appear in browsers
      4. Prototypes do not render correctly in browsers
      5. Commenting panel suddenly showing up on shared links
      6. Unable to publish libraries
    6. Import, export, and working with other apps
      1. Import and export in XD
      2. Photoshop files in XD
      3. Illustrator files in XD
      4. Export to After Effects from XD
      5. Sketch files in XD
      6. Third-party apps not visible in Export

A complete list of features that are supported when you open a Sketch file in XD.

XD brings in Sketch elements and effects that can be mapped to XD’s functionality, some layers or effects may not transfer to the XD file.

The XD team continues to work and improve on this feature. Let us know your feedback on UserVoice.

Here is a complete list of supported and unsupported features when you open a Sketch file in XD.

Features Supported in XD? What's missing?
Shapes and paths

Partial support
  • Asymmetrical points imported as symmetrical.
  • Arrows transferred as lines with no arrowheads.
Images Partial support
  • Image fill is partially supported. XD simulates the effect by importing the image and rectangle with transparency.
  • Image adjustments (hue, saturation, brightness, contrast) are supported.
  • Blur - Gaussian blur is supported, but zoom and motion blur are not supported.
Fills, border, and shadows Partial support
  • Multiple fills are imported as separate layers.
  • Multiple borders are imported as separate layers.
  • Gradients on borders are not imported.

The following fills are not supported:

  • Pattern fills

The following shadow types are not supported:

  • Multiple shadows (only the topmost shadow is imported)
  • Group shadows
  • Component shadows
  • Shadow spread
Opacity Full support  
Blend modes Partial support

Supported blend modes:

  • Normal
  • Darken
  • Multiply
  • Lighten
  • Screen
  • Color Dodge
  • Overlay
  • Soft Light
  • Hard Light
  • Difference
  • Exclusion
  • Hue
  • Saturation
  • Luminosity
Document and global color swatches Full support  
Character styles Full support  
Masks Partial support Alpha masks are not supported.
Groups Full support  
Boolean groups Partial support
  • Boolean operations of type none are transferred as difference Boolean groups.
  • Paths clipped using the scissors tool, which are based on none Boolean operations, are not accurately represented in XD.
Layers Full support  
Artboards Full support  
Pages Partial support Sketch files with multiple pages or components open in XD with visual separators for each of these areas on the XD design canvas.

Text

 Partial support The following text features are not supported:
  • Strike through
  • Double underline
  • Line spacing
  • Vertical alignment
  • Paragraph spacing
  • Justified horizontal alignment
  • Baseline adjustment (subscript, superscript)
  • Text fills
  • Character spacing
  • Text on path
  • Importing a text with a custom line height
Components  Partial support
  • Component size overrides are transferred as groups decoupled from the original component.
  • Resize constraints are not supported, objects inside the components are resized as pinned to all edges.
  • Components are visible as sticker sheets on the XD canvas. They are also available in the Assets panel.
Libraries Partial support
  • Libraries content is imported inside the XD document but are not made available in Libraries.
  • With the Convert Sketch Library features, Sketch libraries can be converted to XD Cloud Documents and automatically linked to the current document.
Sketch native wires Full support  
Grids Partial support Only Layout Grids are imported.
Document color management
 Not supported  

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