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Thanks for writing back. Yes similar issue in png too. Can export normal png, but issue with Palletized / Custom both gif and png.

Having apparently the same issue. Exporting as gif in 1000x1520. Custom Palette does never appear. Just endlessly showing "generating preview". It generates preview on the other palette Options. Hope this can be a fix soon.

Believe this was answered in previous post. Sometimes for some users, it is of interest to only scale size of the design, not the font size. If it doesn't make sense for you now, that is fine, but for some it does. Perhaps you'll later encounter this need of scaling only object and not font size, and will appreciate this feature. But can understand your thinking if you consider the scaling in "extreme" scenarios from 4000x4000 to 200x200 or similar. Sometimes it may be more subtle scalings, where consistency of font size is of importance. Hope this clarifies.

You apparently have the option to do both. Scale all together, or just the design. Guess that is the "smart part". As in some cases it is beneficial to maintain font size regardless of scaling. As @Old Bruce helped explain in here earlier: "There should be a detached handle in the Lower Right of the selected (selected with the Move tool active) Text on a Path layer's bounding box. That should scale the text and the path".

Thanks for sharing @CharlesG

To the Affinity Serif people. Would be great if Vector Flood Fill and Pixel Tool left singular squares / pixels rather than a combined (added) shape. Editing pixel art can become a lot more convenient through this fix. Especially when doing fine edits including removing singular squares instead of having to use node / pen tool etc for editing pixel art. Might look like the Flood Fill can do this when squares in a grid have fill. Still experimenting. But when grid shapes have only outline, it seems like it creates a combined shape. Of course workarounds here as in many other situations, but this comment is not about finding workarounds, it's a suggestion of improvement to Serif for optimizing pixel art design. Thank you

@WeronikaSalach @Lee D Hey. Noticed that calculation process of AD can be very demanding for your Mac / Pc, sometimes even get stuck in calculating process when having multiple simple shapes. I'd guess the issue will occur particularly in the design you show. Have tried same design sometimes, and there is apparently some more underlying issue in this specific context. Affinity Designer does not manage to draw 100% round circles. This becomes relevant, when you multiply elements or circles around circles. It creates small small gaps as circles are not 100% symmetric, even though Transform numbers say so. These small gaps become a part of the calculation, which adds an unnecessary amount of elements to calculate. You can see a lot of unnecessary small gaps if you zoom in a bit extra where the circles meet. Have notified Affinity / Serif earlier about this issue of circles not being 100% round. It is not much of a visual issue looked from afar, but can become an issue in other cases than just visual, like here where you are duplicating circles around circles, and then use Flood Fill and or Geometry tools. Might be that the calculation capacity has somewhat been improved in latest update. However, if you still encounter this issue, perhaps Merge Curves will help make the calculation issue a bit more easy on your computer: Layer - Geometry - Merge Curves. Hope this helps!

That comment was just supporting the issue that this entire thread / issue after update, is build upon.

Hi Psenda. You might have misunderstood. Not using Force Pixel Alignment here. But it seems like you are preferring this feature...as you wrote earlier: "if I'm making a Pixel perfect design, I have to have everything aligned to whole pixels and that's why I have Force Pixel alignment turned on".

Perhaps consider a middel ground. A button next to Force Pixel Alignment, working as Force Paste To Pixel... or similar?

+ one here for experiencing this issue, and would prefer to just paste in same position as it used to before the update. Regardless of pixel alignment settings.

Quite the thread here with 6 pages for gifs😂 Would be a nice feature in AP if Serif decides to implement it one day. If you or anyone else are still searching for an alternative for simple animated gifs... www.ezgif.com could be a convenient savior. It does the job pretty well for simple gifs, and it's free. Not talking about the visual design here, just function and options😂 You have the option to "buy the developer a coffee" for supporting the project on the bottom of the website, and encourage everyone who use it to do so:)

Hi A report to the Affinity team! Normally can select multiple files for a new batch in Affinity Photo. But with Alias Files, can only select one at a time on Mac. Also Alias Files are not showing preview in Finder Mac. Newest versions Mac / Affinity. Issue been before also. Hope you can fix. Thank you.

Experiencing the same issue today with Antialiasing, as reading in this post from originally 2022. And similar post from 2020 with Antialiasing issues. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/114272-how-does-anti-aliasing-work-on-affinity-designer/ As mentioned here before: Forcing Antialiasing on creates smooth curves, but shows gaps between aligned objects. Forcing Antialiasing off creates jagged curves but removes gaps between aligned objects. Tried workarounds with Channel Mixer and Levels with Alpha Settings mentioned from @NotMyFault (appreciate the detailed feedback). Unfortunately not solving the issue. Still gaps in between snapped simple objects. As mentioned similar from others here like @JazzTwitJohn in related post. Affinity, have you managed to solve issues around this which is so basic and relevant? Any recent similar experiences who found an actual solution to this issue? All newest updates on Mac OS and Affinity Software. But experienced this on previous versions as well, as most others. Thanks.

Thank for following up. Attached is a screen recording showing that going from Trim Box to Minimum Content, makes the object re-position. Linked object is related to other linked objects in this specific document, designed to align all placed files in center of Spread, but without the Trim Box square covering entire spread. And accuracy is of importance. Links don't always snap much as normal layers, specially this one being isometric. As posted another place about other link issuementioned in another link post, links are normally not showing until opening document and moving linked layer around. (Link is there and ok in resource manager). Extensive zooming can also work sometimes. But when saving and opening same files again, same issue occurs. So working with multiple files likes this, it can become an issue. Affects file export, file preview etc. Lastly, issue with having a document with linked files, then linking this document again with other files, if made sense. Explained this in another post as well, just a reminder since touching on issues with linked files. This is not about finding a workaround for one file layer alignment etc, it is about a workflow for multiple linked files / documents. Perhaps the whole link system could use some upgrade. Let me know if you need more info. Screen Recording 2025-01-03.mov