DominicJ
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Trouble getting a clean sharp logo from a vector exporting to png.
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We are pushing out a scaled down 600px version this weekend from the dev server, but after a week or so we will go the svg route. Really helpful advice, thank you.
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Understood, maybe I shouldn't say sharpness but clarity. If you look at the screenshot I posted, both the website logo and the logo on the video thumbnail come from the same master vector file. One is lovely on the video. The other, the png website logo, is 'soft', 'blurry' and lacks the same clarity. We've done some tests with a logo at 600px and scaled it in HTML to 205px, and it looks fab. Surely there is a way to get such nice 'clarity' by outputting directly to the correct size? Your example is great but look at the video thumbnail. It is also scaled within the original video of 800px and displayed at around 200px with the 350px video placeholder. My feeling is, Affinity Publisher/Designer isn't creating optimum PNGs, and there are only a few setting options to change to improve it.
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That's really interesting to know. Just checked out Apple, Facebook, YouTube are all using .svg for their graphics. Wow, I need a refresher on html coding!!
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Interesting, I didn't know an .svg could be used, does it limit who can view it? Still looking for how to make a png look sharp. Thanks.
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Yes, I know this, I'm asking how do you make a PNG look as good. Surely if both are using the same vector artwork and the same pixels on screen I should be able to get a png to look the same. Doesn't make sense that by scaling a logo down it looks sharper when its just using the same actual pixels to show on screen. Thanks for your thoughts on this.
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And this is two screen shots of the actual logo, versus using a larger one resized in html (not ideal). Both come from the same vector file. I don't understand why the PNG looks so bad.
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Hi all, I need some advice. I've been working on a website redesign for a client, they recently launched the site but I noticed the website logo wasn't as clean and sharp as the same logo used the same size on a video thumbnail on the same page. I have tried every way I can think of exporting this logo so it looks as good but can't get it to be the same. The spec has to be a transparent png as it sits on an image background. roughly 202 px wide, can be a few pixels more if needed. The artwork is vector based and being output from Affinity Publisher. I've attached a screenshot of the page in question. The logo that is slightly blurry is top left (T Telum Media). The good version is bottom right. Thoughts?
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[THAI] Affinity Photo 2: Issue with some fonts
DominicJ replied to Raksit P's topic in V2 Bugs found on Windows
Thanks Dan, very helpful. I think I’ll just select none as the text is translated and I don’t want to touch it other than lay it out on the page. Although, would you know why it’s asking for en-HK (English-Hong Kong), when the text and font is set to ‘Google Noto Thai’? -
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[THAI] Affinity Photo 2: Issue with some fonts
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[THAI] Affinity Photo 2: Issue with some fonts
DominicJ replied to Raksit P's topic in V2 Bugs found on Windows
Yay! Beta 2.1 of Publisher has saved my bacon, Google Noto Thai font now renders correctly but still get Preflight 'Missing dictionary for Language (en-HK) error messages.
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[THAI] Affinity Photo 2: Issue with some fonts
DominicJ replied to Raksit P's topic in V2 Bugs found on Windows
Same issue here using the Google Font Noto Thai. Going to try updating 2.0.4 to 2.1, fingers crossed. -
How do I access this, My software update says I'm already on the current version. Thanks
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It worked! This time I opened the original graphic, duplicated it, saved the colour changes, then placed it back into the document and grouped with the masked elements and it now saves again. Is this a Designer Version 2 bug? The files are living on an external NMVe drive, the graphic elements are from a Dropbox drive (saved offline).
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Okay, so I've narrowed it down. I've rebuilt the document, copied over each set of layers, saved, same again. Then when I tried copying over a layer with masked group inside it stopped saving. I went back and broke the masked group apart and copied each layer within over, saved. Then I found the item stopping the saving, it is an embedded graphic that I had opened, copied the parts from, created a new document, pasted then in, and saved it as I wanted to use different colours within it and keep the original. I'm thinking it's this copied graphics from within the embedded graphic that for some reason it's not linking too (which I'd have thought it shouldn't need to as it's a new document. I'm going to try building this part from scratch again and will report back.
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Saving problem is back again! A new version of the design with the same elements in. I can see an "[M]" next to the file name at the top, is this a clue as to what is going wrong? I have an element within the design that was opened as an embedded graphic, anything to do with this?
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Hi Paul, It was something wrong with this document. I create a new one, saved it blank, then added the graphics over and it saved fine. Very odd.
