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Thank you for these tips. However, one can expect Affinity Designer 2.03 to export a text always and without triks, flawlessly. It is clear that PNG and JPG will never be as sharp and smooth as e.g. PDF (vector), but it should be able to reach the export quality of Adobe Illustrator CC. Finally, Affinity Designer 2.03 is an alternative for Illustrator CC. That's why I don't want to settle for inferior quality.

MS Paint is indeed a primitive software. It displays the exported image as it is, without any enhancements, such as the browser. I hope Serif will improve the export quality. I really have much more to do than report bugs here in the forum.

XARA is not a professional design software. Compare with Adobe illustrator CC or CorelDraw. And if you are not a professional designer with a degree and work experience, but a hobby user, discussion makes no sense because you have different requirements.

Why are you showing a screenshot of Publisher? I am writing about Affinity Designer. Also, I have no idea from which program you exported PNG and why you opened it in Publisher and then took a screenshot of it, which also spoils the result.

For example, there are special professional procedures to assess the quality of photography, i.e. how well a camera takes photos. It is determined whether a photo is sharp up to the edge and whether colour reproduction, contrast, brightness, etc. are correct. A comparable professional assessment would be necessary to determine the weaknesses of Affinity Designer professional's export quality. This is where Serif is needed to improve the export quality on the basis of objective criteria.

The 2nd text from above is from Affinity.

Please provide PNG. Export more round letters in large 12pt or 10pt. Then one can compare.

You are free to export and compare a typographic PNG from Afinity and Adobe or Corel. My opinion after many comparisons is clear: Afinity Designer 2.03 exports in a worse quality. It is a pity that Serif has not improved this yet it.

Compare the export results in Windows Paint.

This shows that although the problem is known and has been discussed several times, Affinity Team is not taking care of it. That's a pity.

I like using Affinity Designer. It's a very good app. However, export quality and antialiasing can be improved.

In both Affinity Designer and Corel Draw, text was designed in CMYK. The same colour profile PSO Coated V3 was used in both programmes. Affinity Designer 2.03 exports a grey-black. CorelDraw exports black as it should be. However, it plays almost no role in smoothing the letters. CorelDraw has no export functions to choose from (bilinear, bikubisch, lanczos) like Affinity Designer. CorelDraw simply exports in better quality, i.e. not pixelated. The antialias is simply better when exporting.

Here you can compare the same test with CorelDraw. The export result is much better, sharper, smoother!

This problem also existed in Affinity Designer 1. Nothing has been improved in terms of export quality in Affinity Designer 2.03. The outlines of the exported font are pixelated and not smooth enough to use for professional client presentation. Download this example and look at 100% magnification. For example, at 8, contours are pixelated, as well as many other round letters.

The same problem exists with the frame tool! One cannot work with Affinity Designer 2.03! Das Umrandungswerkzeug

The same problem exists with the frame tool! One cannot work with Affinity Designer 2.03! Das Umrandungswerkzeug

Such a procedure is cumbersome and incomprehensible. All DIN A formats should already be available when creating a new document.

The following formats are missing when creating new documents: A2, A1 and A0. Please add these formats to the default settings in Affinity Designer 2.03! These formats were preset in Affinity Designer 1.

Yes, you cannot change the contour thickness by entering a number, e.g. 2mm. The radius setting does not work with the mouse either. Please fix this bug as soon as possible!

The thickness of the contour cannot be made thicker! Neither entering a number nor moving the symbol for the contour thickness works. I have Windows 11.

If you press the shift key, the knife cuts horizontally, vertically or by 45 degrees. If the right mouse button is pressed, the cutting of straight lines works at any angle. Unfortunately, there is no help available.

Unfortunately, this does not work for Windows.

Affinity Designer 2 does not have a blending tool (blending between different shapes). The guides can only be positioned vertically and horizontally and not, for example, by 45 degrees. The knife cuts straight lines only vertically, horizontally and at 45 degrees. It would be desirable if the knife could cut any degree straight. These functions are desirable!

Partially the translation in Affinity Photo 2 into German is missing.

How to change the font size of the UI, enlarge?