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Thank you! I was just using Affinity Designer’s preview as I thought that would be exactly what any export would look like. I have now tested it out as a bitmap fill and your right it’s not that bad. I’m now confused as to what the export preview function is for if it doesn’t show an accurate preview… Thanks again

These were the export settings used. I couldn’t attach them in the previous post.

I have had a go at this method for producing repeat patterns. It works really well but how do you export them as a pattern tile? I am only getting a blurry tile when I try to export. I have been using a 4000 x 4000 px tile at 300 dpi, I’ve tried jpeg, png, tiff, svg. The result every time is a pixelated blury tile. I’m using Affinity Designer 2 on an iPad. The tile looks perfect on the screen but the export is unusable. I had wanted to get some fabric printed. What am I doing wrong? star circle full drop pattern temp.afdesign

I know what happened here. I have just had the same problem where I changed a setting by accident and had no idea what I had done. Two hours later I have managed to workout the problem. It isn’t the checkerboard background that is the problem. I had unticked ‘show group thumbnail’. Once I ticked it again the ugly folder icon disappeared. Yay!