Design Format Support
Overview
We continuously develop the Octopus file format to support close to 100% of all features that can appear in each design file format. Currently, we cover best the Adobe Photoshop (93.75% of all features), Sketch (97.33% of all features), and Adobe Illustrator (87.27% of all features).
Below you can check the specific feature of each file format and how is it supported in the Octopus.
Full support
Partial support
In development
Not supported– Design tool specific| Feature | Photoshop | Sketch | Adobe XD | Figma | Illustrator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shapes | |||||
| Vector Paths Vector paths consisting of cubic Bézier curves and line segments | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Compound Paths Individual shapes combined together using boolean operations: Union, Intersect, Difference, Exclude | Full support in Octopus | Partial support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Vector Effects Effects applied to the shapes geometry, namely fills and strokes | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Solid Fills Solid colors applied to the shapes | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Linear Gradient Fills Linear transition among a set of colors applied to the shapes | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Non-linear Gradient Fills Color transition other than linear (like elliptical, radial, angular...) applied to the shapes | Partial support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Pattern Fills Shapes filled with an image, depending on the configuration the pattern might be respective and/or transformed | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Strokes Shapes border of a particular width, filled with a solid color or gradient | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Dashed Strokes Shapes border formed by an alternating dash and gap pattern | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Winding Configuration determining which regions of a shape are inside and which are outside. The so-called 'winding rules' are even-odd or non-zero | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Rounded Corners Adjacent line segments connected by an arc of given radius. | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Not supported in Octopus | Not supported in Octopus |
| Shape Type Meta-information Information of geometric origin of a shape, e.g. rectangle, oval, line, triangle star | Partial support in Octopus | Partial support in Octopus | Partial support in Octopus | Partial support in Octopus | Partial support in Octopus |
| Texts | |||||
| Text Layers Blocks of texts with basic formatting (font, color, style, paragraph typesetting) and positioning | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Partial support in Octopus |
| Text Frame Behaviour Text frame policy governing how frame resizes based on its content. The policies are: auto-width, auto-height and fixed. | – | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Partial support in Octopus | – |
| OpenType features Set of typographic features available in some modern OpenType fonts. | – | Full support in Octopus | – | Not supported in Octopus | Not supported in Octopus |
| Emoji Symbols Emoji characters contained in the text. | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Bullet Lists Indented bullet or numbered lists | – | Full support in Octopus | – | – | – |
| Images | |||||
| Bitmap Images Bitmaps loaded from variety of common raster image formats: PNG, JPEG, GIF, WEBP | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| PDF Images Bitmaps and pattern fills loaded from PDF | – | Full support in Octopus | – | – | – |
| Image Adjustments Image color modifications achieved by changing a set defined color properties | – | Full support in Octopus | – | Not supported in Octopus | – |
| Layer Properties | |||||
| Layer Transformation Linear transformations applied to layers | – | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Partial support in Octopus | – |
| Layer Masks Technique of hiding a portion of a layer using on content of a different layer | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Layer Bitmap Masks Technique of hiding a portion of a layer using alpha channel of a dedicated bitmap object attached to the layer | Full support in Octopus | – | – | – | – |
| Vector Masks Technique of hiding a portion of a layer a dedicated shape object attached to the layer | Full support in Octopus | – | – | – | – |
| Layer Effects Visual effects applied to individual layers, typical examples are fills, strokes, blurs, shadows. | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus |
| Adjustment Layers Set of color and tonal changes non-destructively applied the underlying layers (namely images). | Partial support in Octopus | – | – | – | – |
| Design Composition | |||||
| Smart Objects Layers containing embedded data from a different source (image, PS, Illustrator). | Partial support in Octopus | – | – | – | – |
| Symbols & Libraries Sketch way of organizing reusable parts of designs. | – | Full support in Octopus | – | – | – |
| Components Figma way of organizing reusable parts of designs. | – | – | – | In development in Octopus | – |
| Component Variants Component storing multiple variants of itself. | – | – | – | In development in Octopus | – |
| Components XD way of organizing reusable parts of designs. | – | – | In development in Octopus | – | – |
| Component States Component storing multiple variants of itself. | – | – | In development in Octopus | – | – |
| Layouts | |||||
| Resizing Policies Set of layout rules applied to symbol/component when instantiated and resized. | – | Full support in Octopus | Not supported in Octopus | Not supported in Octopus | – |
| Automatic Layout Systems Layout engine rearranging reusable parts of design based on content | – | Full support in Octopus | Not supported in Octopus | Not supported in Octopus | – |
| Repeat Grids Elements could be replicated and organized in grids | – | – | Not supported in Octopus | – | – |
| Additional Features | |||||
| Prototyping Interactive preview of a design | – | Full support in Octopus | Partial support in Octopus | Partial support in Octopus | – |
| Cloud Integration | – | – | – | – | – |
| Comments Possibility of commenting on particular elements of design | – | – | – | – | – |
| Layout Grids Visual references aiding the structure of the design content. | – | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | Full support in Octopus | – |
| Export Configurations Persistent export settings of the layers | – | Full support in Octopus | – | Full support in Octopus | – |
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