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What can I say, confusing title, from your feedback. Anyway, yes, @GarryP nailed my problem. Thanks for the help

I'm sure this is happening to others and I did a search in the forums already. I used to use Canva for creating an output MP4 from same-size images. I've now created an Affinity Designer group of artboards for exporting JPGs which I then use FFMPEG to create a stitched MP4 file. I was getting an ffmpeg error suggesting the source images were not divisible by 2. Anyway, I eventually tracked down the issue as being the layer sizes that are created inside the Export persona are increased by 1 pixel, either the width or both width and height. Is there any fix for this? (Once I change them manually it's OK but new duplicated artboards show the problem)

I'm happily running Designer in a Windows11 docker container on my desktop. Grew tired of all the workarounds, glitches and non-functioning aspects of running it on a Linux desktop. I'm sure Canva backing Serif would enable them to build out a Linux version if they so desired. They don't for whatever reason so we all need to live with that decision and use the programs in the best way that suits your own needs and infrastructure

>>> or whatever wording makes the most sense.

well, it should probably be aware of it's current state and change the tooltip wording from "Make item visible in export" to "Make item invisible in export", whatever the state requires. or whatever wording makes the most sense. my problem was finding it in the first place though lol.

OMG that's incredible. Damn I couldn't find that and works exactly as I'm wanting. What a great time saver for me now. Thank you so much for help. very much appreciated

I do creative work where I test various artwork against a light and a dark background. While I want to be able to export the artwork, I don't want to export the background. I want to be able to see the background color in Designer/Pixel persona but don't want to export it. I know I can turn off these layers but when I've got a large number of artboards, this becomes a bit tedious. I researched as best I can but I think I'm out of luck. Or am I?

oh my goodness, that's a long thread in the making of over 6 years. More likely a Linux version of Affinity will be released before scripting OK, i'll look for another solution, thanks for replying so quickly too, much appreciated.

Hi, I'm doing some automation work (using n8n.io workflows) at the moment and was wondering if there's any way to access my Affinity programs via an API endpoint or something similar to create artwork, programmatically? Cheers for any feedback or thoughts on this area Martin

Yes that's right. settings don't get saved, as I asked about. Note, projects and image exports do function correctly with vc2022 installed @Wanesty @ElementalWarrior

so far working well for me under Wine - https://github.com/Twig6943/AffinityOnLinux/blob/main/Guides/Bottles/Guide.md

I have all programs running pretty well except for one issue. It seems that Settings are never saved and persistent on the next restart. Is this due to a missing dependancy? Anyone else have this issue or provide some insight? Using Bottles install from https://github.com/Twig6943/AffinityOnLinux/blob/main/Guides/Bottles/Guide.md

Thank you for the reply. I ended up adding both a Colour Overlay & Outline FX which got me to where I wanted. All good now and thank you again for your ideas Martin

Hi, This maybe a stupid question but here I go I've got some text. I've added a 1 pixel stroke of the same colour and I like the appearance. But I want to add a smaller black stroke to this as well to given definition. Is there a way to increase a font's overall initial sizing that is similar to adding a stroke? Hopefully I've explained myself Thanks for any help Martin

Yes please for this. Doing some replacement images at the moment and finding this is a laborious task when I have refreshed images of the same previous dimensions. Can't find any option or method so manually having to alter position XY as well as sizing.