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Thank you InspireNation.UK! I have copied your solution to save and try in the future. I finally solved the immediate problem by saving the Adobe Illustrator documents as .svg and then importing the .svg into the Silhouette cutting software (didn't come in, in the correct size) and then lining up the registration marks from the .svg with ones in the silhouette new document page. That sized the import correctly for that project. Maybe your cure will work for others using different software.

Ah, no. The registration marks I was referring to are applied by the Silhouette Connect cutting machine software when using Adobe Illustrator, that allowed sending from Adobe to Silhouette for print, then cut, operations. Unfortunately the Connect software doesn't work with Affinity. I'm now opening those documents made in .ai in Affinity and they have the Silhouette marks on them still. I've contacted Silhouette and suggested they might consider upgrading their Connect software to allow direct import into Silhouette from Affinity, but that doesn't help the immediate problem. So, "Include Printer's Marks" and everything under it is unchecked, just as Peter Burt has suggested. It begins to look like I'm doing everything right in the Affinity software, and have to figure out how to get it imported into Silhouette while preserving layers for cutting. I'm thinking if I can import everything into Silhouette, maybe I can print then cut from both from inside Silhouette instead of printing from Affinity and cutting from Silhouette. I appreciate everyone's help, and am reassured that at least I'm doing the Affinity part properly.

Peter, could you detail settings for how you did this, please? Did you go to Export Persona in Affinity first? Was the setting then PDF, preset digital high quality, Raster DPI 300, area whole document? Also, is "Don't export layers hidden by Export persona" checked? The errors I'm experiencing are about 3/16" too high by the bottom of my cut page. Thanks!

Thanks for the ideas. I tried EPS. Silhouette won't read it. I tried .jpg and .png (silly me- no vector to cut), tried .svg: it came into silhouette a strange mess of 4 miniature lines. I decided maybe it was something odd about this particular document. I have lots of these documents with the same basic layers. I tried a second document sled:hen. To my astonishment, saving those cut lines to pdf and importing to Silhouette provided no cutlines to cut at all, a blank page, even though they are clearly visible on the pdf. So then I tried a third document drumcap. I grouped the cut lines, exported as digital high quality pdf, imported into Silhouette, and they cut PERFECTLY. Three different results from documents that are basically the same build. I've attached the first document here, of frogs, and the third document, of drum and cap that did work. Oh, just added the 2nd one, sled:hen. I'm mystified. Also, have to leave shortly for a week, but will be able to read emails but not work with cutting machine until I return. I so appreciate any suggestions. doublefrog print.afdesign drumcap.afdesign sled:hen.afdesign

I'm working with an Affinity Designer document and a Silhouette cutting machine. I have a graphic layer, a cut lines layer, and a registration layer. I print the A.D. graphic with registration layer, and then I export to PDF the cut lines layer. This PDF has to match the print version exactly so that the lines to be cut are in the proper spot on the graphic. There are 4 short horizontal lines to be cut. Two about an inch apart in the upper half of the document, and two on the lower half. The two on the upper half always cut in the correct location. The lower two lines are cut too high. I've tried dropping them in the document but just can't seem to get it right. Unfortunately Silhouette doesn't read A.D. I'm thinking that exporting to PDF must be slightly shrinking my document or that I need to export in a different way. I was excited to read the suggestion above about exporting as digital high quality and 300 dpi, but that didn't make any difference. Any help? Essentially, my pdf has to match the AD document exactly.

Eureka! I'm a 71-year-old retired educator, self-taught now "retired" Adobe Illustrator user learning Affinity. After struggling to understand a lot of what I was reading above, I finally discovered that there's a little checkbox in the new document window to make something an art board, and since I've never even noticed that option, my documents apparently aren't artboards (I didn't know there was anything but an artboard). But now, if I go to View: View Mode: Clip to Canvas and UNcheck that, I can store things outside the page boundary. Excellent! So glad to fix that issue.