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Is it possible to edit the metadata in Affinity Designer 2.4.2? So copyright, URL, etc.? I can't find any possibility.

It would be important to improve the export quality of PNG and JPG. Affinity Designer is a great app, the biggest disadvantage is the poorer export quality than Adobe Illustrator.

On the Affinity website you can see several works, graphics. All these works have been exported in an excellent quality. Try exporting in such great quality. https://affinity.serif.com/de/designer/

I don't know how you exported the text. But I need a slightly better export quality for my work/presentations. It needs to be at a very high level.

The text quality is already better here. For the export, I tested Illustrator, Corel Draw and the free Inkscape. All three programmes deliver a much better export quality than Affinity. Affinity can only export text well if it has been rasterized beforehand, preferably at 600 dpi or more. The problem therefore lies in the anti-aliasing of the text.

In both exported texts, the outlines of the letters in the continuous text are very unclean and pixelated. The result is unsatisfactory. It is reminiscent of inkjet printers with poor print quality. Unfortunately, the gamma setting does not seem to have an improved effect on export quality. This export problem should best be looked at by the Serif staff so that it can hopefully be fixed with an update. Adobe has various Bicubic export settings that allow for smoother text quality. Unfortunately, Affinity does not have these settings. Bicubic Smoother: Good for enlarging images based on Bicubic interpolation, but designed to produce smoother results. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/export-artboards-layers.html#export-as

The export quality in Affinity Designer has not yet been improved. However, the problem of export quality has been known for years. Adobe delivers professional export quality and Affinity unfortunately does not. What use are new functions such as a spiral tool that I hardly ever use if the export quality is simply not right? Serif obviously doesn't realise how important flawless export quality is.

Hi Callum, when using other colour profiles, the CMYK palette looks correct. This pallete was made available here in the forum by Affinity Team a year or more ago. They are real CMYK values. For example black 0 0 0 100.

Affinity Designer 2.2.1 Catastrophically poor colour reproduction of the CMYK colours black and grey. The colours are not displayed as shades of grey, but as unclean shades of brown. You can't work professionally with this! Colour profile used: PSO uncoated v3.

Hi @NathanC , the problem is mainly with ISO Coated v2 (ECI). I have changed to PSO Coated v3 and the "Rasterizing" results and exporting as PNG and JPG are fine again.

Affinity Designer 2.2.1 - .afdesign, not the .afphoto file.

100% zoom does not change anything! I have also tried rasterising other typographic work in Affinity Designer 2.2.1 - the result is very poor. Even after exporting as PNG and JPG, the quality is miserable. The problem is mainly with ISO Coated v2 (ECI). I have changed to PSO Coated v3 and the "Rasterizing" results and exporting as PNG and JPG are fine again.

The "Rasterizing" function in Affinity Designer 2.2.1 gives catastrophically bad results. The letters are completely distorted! In Affinity Designer 2.2, the "Rasterizing" function still worked perfectly. This document has 300 dpi, font Fira Sans.

This problem also exists in Affinity Designer 2.2. Antialising when exporting JPG and PNG is not optimal, especially with typography, round letterforms. This has been reported here in the forum several times. Unfortunately, Serif has not yet done anything to improve this. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/186456-affinity-210-better-antialiasing-required/#comment-1097044

These are good functions. However, the export quality of PNG and JPG has still not been improved. A pity.

"Return" - you have to know that first! Then it's really easy. The menu is much more logical and better, because all the other menus such as transform, etc. are accessible via the menu.

Now it has worked. However, I find it impractical that you cannot open menus such as the "Transform" menu.

Not comprehensible. I use Designer on Windows. I don't have this menu! Where can I find this menu?

Move / Duplicate Where in Affinity Designer 2.2 can I find this menu? I have not found one. This is Affinity Video on Facebook.

@Ash @debraspicher I tried Inkscape 1.3, the PNG export is excellent. There is a great function in Inkscape when exporting to set the edge smoothing of the contours so that the contours are very smooth. This feature of Inkscape would be very desirable for Affinity 2.2. Inkscape is free and exports PNG and JPG in much better quality than Affinity Designer.

I don't see any improvement in the gamma settings. As I said, the problem is with the anti-allising setting.

Do you think Gamma 3 ensures better quality when exporting PNG and JPG?

Unfortunately, in Affinity 2.1.1 the export quality of PNG and JPG or the antialising has not been improved. It is clear that a professional software should include a high quality export of files. Although many comments have already been written on this topic, Serif ignores this. What a pity!

Interestingly, the exported results are better if the design to be exported is rasterised in Affinity Designer before exporting as PNG. This suggests that Affinity's anti-aliasing feature does not work properly for typography and vector graphics.

@debraspicher Here I have exported from Illustrator. The contours are smooth. The CMYK - Black 100% is black and not grey as in Affinity Designer 2.1.0.