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Bumping this because version 2.4.1's grid is not as dark and prominent, but STILL extremely blurry.

I'm on Windows 10 and I do use hardware acceleration (OpenGL).

Thank you!!! That seems to work!

Thanks a lot for your reply, however thanks to you I have figured something else out: it does NOT HAPPEN with a regular, basic stroke. Since you said that you didn't have that custom brush, I removed it and the line became smooth immediately... So this seems to be happening ONLY with brushes that aren't a true vector. Why would that be? EDIT: hardware acceleration is on and it doesn't seem to matter...

Hello, this behaviour is consistent across all Designer versions, also the newest one. It really bugs me because I often draw a curve and then apply other curves or pixel layers over it to give it the needed look. HOWEVER very often the edge of the original curve stops looking smooth and nice, instead becoming ugly and edgy... I haven't figured out what to do about it, I just want it to stay smooth... Here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about, I'm also attaching a Designer file so you can open it yourself. Is it also that ugly for you? EDIT: the overlapping curve has a custom Shizzle brush applied to it, so it will only work if you also have this set installed. Thanks in advance for your help! cruve-altialiased.afdesign

Thanks! The issue does sound similar, however mine is also quite blurry, which doesn't seem to be the case in the other thread...

I have just updated and my grid (view > show grid) turned EXTREMELY blurry, I can't even see well if I've aligned my items to it or didn't... That surely wasn't the case with the previous version, but I'm not sure whether there's a setting that I can toggle so that it's back to normal, or it is a bug. Anyone else experiencing this?

Hi, I'm not sure what may be causing is, however I have a suggestion that you could try to eliminate this problem: don't flatten your image before exporting at all. At least, I assume you export to JPG, PNG or some other format that doesn't need layers. On export, all layers will be flattened automatically, and your original image should be intact.

Thanks @carl123, that's a pity...

Hello, I'm sorry if I missed this topic, but I coudn't find any info on whether you can flow a table between different pages (if it doesn't fit on one page) in Publishers v2, or not. I only could find information that it wasn't possible in v1... So I'm hoping it is possible with v2. Thanks!

Wow @lacerto, you've even tested it already, many thanks!!! That's a real pity it has actually gotten worse than before... 😣 Guess the bugs forum will become yet another thread richer! That's also a pity you're experiencing issues with crashing/hanging you haven't before, I for now stick to v1, purchased v2 but I feel like has too many issues for now so I'm waiting for an update...

Thanks for the link, @loukash! The description does sound like this can be exactly the issue I'm talking about! I guess I'll just have test the new release & see if it behaves differently.

Hello, I was wondering what your thoughts are about using bleed across different Affinity apps. I've encoutered something that I expected to work otherwise, but maybe it's actually good that it works the way it does? If I create a document of 20 x 30 cm with 3 mm bleed and facing pages in Publisher and then I need an illustration that will cover the whole spread, I thought that it's good to go if I create a document in Designer with similar settings: 40 x 30 cm and 3 mm bleed. For whatever reason I thought that Publisher will "see" Designer's bleed settings and will include it when I place Designer file into Publisher. And that both bleeds will kinda overlay eachother so the final result that you will see is an image of 40 x 30 cm. However that didn't quire work that way, Publisher just ignored Designer's bleed settings, only used the working area of 40 x 30 cm and so the image was scaled a little bit when I placed it in Publisher (because I placed it in the area of 40,6 x 30,6 cm that includes bleed on both sides). So in the end I had to resize my Designer image and make it 40,6 x 30,6 cm without any bleed. So my question is, is there maybe a setting somewhere to tell Publisher to include Designer's bleed when you place an image? Maybe is some situations you'd want the other app to be able to include it (while for other situations it's better not to).

Thank you very much for your replies! You're right, @loukash, using PDF/X-4 or PDF Press Ready fixed that, the line is now perfect! And @lacerto, thanks for your comment, I did indeed use PDF/X-1a:2003 the first time, because for whatever reason sometimes Affinity fails to export to PDF/X-4 (couldn't figure out why yet) and PDF/X gives more consistent results color-wise compated to PDF Press Ready when you need to keep a certain color profile... So I figured it's easier to just use PDF/X-1a:2003 for most stuff, but now I see that it also has its limitations!

I'm not sure about whether they make the image larger on exposure, but they do cut a few mm off when making a book. Strangely enough their specifications required no bleed at all - maybe because it's not a PDF and the only thing they care about are total dimensions. However, my question about proper export sizes wasn't as much about this certain photo printer (they accepted my files without issues) - but for possible future stuff where it *may* have been an issue, I just thought that it was strange that the sizes didn't match. But now I know that they will never match anyway and even if I see 60 x 30 mm it's rounded. 😆