Brian_J
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4 hours ago, Little Owl said:
SVG is vector format so it's not converting a vector to a bitmap from my understanding when exporting as SVG, simply converting a vector to a different type of vector?
Although SVG images are resolution-independent and can be scaled to any size without losing quality, they do have anti-aliasing when displayed on a web page, just like PNG and JPG — the difference is anti-aliasing on SVG images is done after the size is recalculated.
Think about fonts for a moment. Virtually all fonts are vector based. If you take a screenshot of a web page, paste it into Affinity Photo, and zoom in, you'll see anti-aliasing on the text. Just like with SVG images, fonts can be set to any size without losing quality... the anti-aliasing is done after the size is calculated.
Maybe the following graphics will be helpful.
These are two 16 x 16 px SVG icons displayed in a web browser. The image shows the icons at their original 16 x 16 px size. I took a screenshot, pasted into AP and zoomed in 800% and took a screenshot. Anti-aliasing is apparent when zoomed in. Notice the difference in appearance between the anti-aliasing on the horizontal and vertical lines in the gray icon on the left, and the curved edges of the green leaf on the right.
Here are those same two icons scaled to 1024 x 1024 px.
The laptop / mobile phone icon has anti-aliasing on the rounded corners, but no anti-aliasing on the edges that I zoomed in on because they are aligned to whole pixels. Curves can't align to whole pixels along the entire length, so there is anti-aliasing.
Here's the leaf icon. At 100% size, it looks nice and crisp. But there is anti-aliasing, as can be seen by zooming in. The anti-aliasing on the leaf is more pronounced than in the laptop / mobile phone icon above because of the angle of the edges.
Some shapes are harder to work with at small sizes. Your logo just happens to have several things that I've found can present challenges at smaller sizes: thin cursive font, small leaf shapes with short curves and small gap in the middle, and the tagline (job title) which needs to be small so it doesn't dominate the logo, but small text in a logo is difficult.
Hopefully I didn't just rehash stuff you already know.
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36 minutes ago, Little Owl said:
But SVG export is vector, so I don't understand why my leaf elements in the design are not clear when exported as SVG?
How are you viewing the SVG image? If it's in a web browser, anti-aliasing will occur, so you will see pixelation.
36 minutes ago, Little Owl said:The original reply I received was as follows - can anything mentioned here make a difference?
" They are likely not pixel aligned.
View > View Mode > Pixels preview
You may also want to turn on pixels as document unit, Force pixel alignment snapping, use and snap to a 1-pixel subdivision grid, set Preferences > User Interface > Decimal Places > Pixels: 6 (to see the actual misaligned values in the Transform panel), etc. "All the things mentioned are factors to consider, but most of your logo artwork doesn't need to be pixel aligned (i.e., force pixel alignment). Pixel aligned means each edge is on a whole pixel — the text and leaves don't necessarily need to be aligned to whole pixels.
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It sounds like maybe you have downloaded the installer(s) but have not installed the apps yet. If that's the case and you don't know where the installer(s) were downloaded, try searching your computer for the installer files. I don't know which apps you purchased... these are the 3 possible files you downloaded:
(These are the files you get if you purchased from the Affinity Store. I'm not sure how it works if you purchased from another store.)
affinity-designer-2.0.0.msix
affinity-photo-2.0.0.msix
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32 minutes ago, HerrHase said:
I can not set the lenght of a diagonal line. at the moment i need to draw it horizontally or vertically and then set an angle.
That’s done in the Transform panel that I mention in my previous comment. Select the Move Tool, select the layer in the Layers Panel, and you can set the length or rotate the line.
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To add to the previous 3 comments...
Horizontal and vertical lines will naturally look more crisp. It looks like 2 sides of the rectangle are aligned to pixels and two side are on pixel fractions, but it's not as noticeable as curved lines because the edges are horizontal/vertical... i.e., there's no stairstep anti-aliasing.
It's difficult for me to tell from the 200% screenshot how the graphic will look. I think your going to have to try nudging the entire logo, or individual elements, a fraction of a pixel to see if you can get it to look like you want. Or you may need to edit the paths of individual elements. There's probably not much you can do for the cursive text. I've had instances when dealing with small text where I put each letter on it's own layer so I could deal with kerning each letter manually by fractions of a pixel — I don't know if that's required for the sans serif font in your logo, but I'm just saying sometimes artwork needs to be tweaked differently for each size it's being saved at.
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The logo contains elements that are particularly susceptible to looking pixelated — narrow cursive font, small text, and shapes (leaves) with short arcs and narrow gaps (the veins down the middle).
Optimizing the appearance may require editing each logo size individually, and nudging elements a fraction of a pixel.
Rather than exporting multiple sizes from one master graphic, I’d recommend creating artboards for each required size (or you could create separate files) so you can view the artwork in pixel view (View > View Mode > Pixels), and make any adjustments necessary to minimize the appearance of aliasing as much as possible.
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Width and height of an object can be set in the Transform panel. Is that what you’re looking for?
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Are you saying you don’t get a pop-up menu when you tap Never automatically download content?
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The Command Controller is what you’re looking for. The up arrow (top button) locks the aspect ratio.
https://affinity.help/designer2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Workspace/wheel.html
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25 minutes ago, R C-R said:
Not 96?
You say tomatoes, I say tomahto. 😂 I transposed the numbers… comment has been corrected.
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2 hours ago, Eloy said:
in Affinity Photo I create new file from clipboard and it pastes at 96dpi, shouldn't it be 72dpi? It's strange.
96 DPI when creating a new file from clipboard was a surprise to me, too. It is intended behavior in Affinity apps on Windows.
To avoid 96 DPI, I created a 72 DPI document preset that’s the size of my screenshots — in my case it’s the size of 2 monitors. Instead of pasting from clipboard, I create a new document from the preset and paste into that. But, not much help if the copy is from a selection.
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11 minutes ago, PaintNut said:
So, I am not using "Artboards". Is that what Publisher calls a document?
Artboards enable you to creat multiple “pages” in a single document. If you’re coming from Adobe Illustrator, it’s the same concept as in illustrator. In Designer, new documents are not created with an artboard by default, but you can change that in the New Document dialogue… and you can convert an existing document to an artboard, add artboards, etc.
Adding and removing artboards: https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Artboards/artboards_about.html?title=About artboards
Hope you’re able to get your issues sorted out.
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18 minutes ago, PaintNut said:
Here is yet another problem that is blocking my work. The pdf for the business card doesn't export the bleed that is clearly there in the design.
It sucks that you’re battling so many issues.
Here’s post about the bleed issue. I’m not sure if the info will be helpful to you until Serif fixes the issue.
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In Photo, the Command Controller is off by default. If that is the intended behavior, I wonder why it’s different in Designer. Maybe Serif assumes it will be used more in Designer? I prefer consistency between the apps.
I like fde101’s suggestion.
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An Empty Mask shows as a black thumbnail in the layers panel and hides the layer. If instead you apply a Mask, the thumbnail in the layers panel will be white and it will not mask anything… so you would paint on the mask with black to mask areas of the layer.
With masks, black hides, white reveals.
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I have this issue, too.
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Sure thing.
Each layer type has its advantages. Among other things, image layers retain all the data in the original image file, and that data is used when exploring the file, which may be desirable.
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An image layer needs to be rasterized — which turns it into a pixel layer — before you can copy or delete a selection.
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4 hours ago, Uwe-R-aus-B said:
it was setup like this by default?
I can't remember what the default is. I thought it was disabled by default, but not positive.
4 hours ago, Uwe-R-aus-B said:I was not aware of this button and of its function at all. What's the purpose of it?
It's just an option that may appeal to users, depending on how they like to work or what they're working on. It's faster to single-click to select a nested object rather than having to double click, sometimes multiple times, to drill down into a folder to select an object.
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Further down in that help article it explains the different ways to modify gradients.
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With the Move Tool selected, and a layer selected, is 'Allow selection to consider items inside a group' enabled in the Context Toolbar? If so, disable it and that should allow you to select the Picture Frame.
Note: The 'Allow selection to consider items inside a group' may be in a different location than in my screenshot, depending on what type of layer you have selected.
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9 hours ago, Callum said:
This still seems to be working fine for me here on Windows if I hit the small Text box icon to the lefthand side of the layer in the layers panel is this not the case for you?
Ah okay, yes that works for me. In V1 clicking the layer thumbnail escapes the cursor, I didn't realize the location moved to the layer icon. Thanks for your help.
Help pages missing some options in Preferences > General
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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The Help pages are missing some of the available options in Preferences > General. There is no mention of the following General Preferences setting, as well as others:
Prefer metafile to raster when pasting from external application
These are the help pages I'm referring to:
https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Workspace/preferences.html
https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Workspace/preferences.html
https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Workspace/preferences.html