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Westerwälder reacted to a post in a topic:
Snapping does perfectly snap 2 objects
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Probably not that many but they also don't have the issue when exporting to a png that Designer 2 has.
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loukash reacted to a post in a topic:
Snapping does perfectly snap 2 objects
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To be professional: Yes I do. Because when you export the image you still get the artifacts. I had to place a solid coloured uniform object behind all the others to not get a 1 pixel wide gap. I don't know about you but I care about this software and want it to improve. Excuses like that does not help.
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Wait so for you the blue outline showing the selection lines up with the green box even when zoomed very far in? Because when I am zoomed out it looks quite normal to me too but when I zoom in to like 1 million percent I can clearly see they are not aligned.
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The problem is that the blue outline of the selected element is not exactly on the pasted object. I understand the difference between pixel and vector but even when placing a pixel object in a vector space you should still confine the selection to the object. The document is set up to all the based on pixels so if all values are integer the outline should not have a small gap to the actual pixel object placed. This is what is causing the small gap between 2 elements and making the background shine through. I assume the same is happening with the SVG. I attached an SVG with only the background of what I was working on. example.svg
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You can see the same thing happen when I place an SVG though so it doesn't seem to be a problem only with pixel objects. Here is the same SVG in Designer and Illustrator. Left => Affinity Designer 2 | Right => Illustrator 2023
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In this case the reason is only to show the issue. When I originally found the issue it was because I was using a texture map and just wanted to lay out multiple copies of the same texture.
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Sorry for a late reply. Have been quite sick the last week so not been on my computer much. I made a document showing of the problem I found. It has both the issue itself and a screenshot in the same document. example.afdesign
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I already have pixel grid enabled and due to the scaling that I didn't get quite right the pixels don't perfectly align. But when I place an object that is perfectly aligned with the pixel grid and no other oddities are occurring I still see that the selection outline does not line up with my texture unless I enable the pixel view mode. This becomes a great issue when working with more complex vectors than just squares because using pixel mode will not work there. Here I can get by since I am working with rectangles. Also I only use 1 artboard.
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I might have found the problem myself. The issue does not revolve around the snapping the issue comes from scaling an object up. As you can see in the attached image #1 the outline showing your current selection has a small gap. This is a 16x16 pixel texture that has been scaled up to become 102x102 pixels which is 6.375 times larger. Sadly scaling the object to 112x112 pixels instead (which is divisible by 16) you still get this issue where the selection does not line up with the actual texture. Seeing attachment 2 and 3 you there problem seems to only be on the left and top while being perfectly aligned bottom and right side. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3
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I had the Move by whole pixel disabled at first and Force Pixel Alignment has always been enabled for this document. I changed the decimal setting for both Point and Pixels to be safe. Going over both the elements and their respective parent every value in the Transform panel shows only whole numbers without decimals but the gap still shows. Especially when I am zoomed out to view my full 1920x1080 canvas. Is there something else I need to check in the transform panel to enforce only integer value? This time I saved/exported the image to a PNG the gap actually showed up. Something I've not seen before.
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I have noticed that many times when I have multiple objects close to each other they seem to have a small gap when I zoom out. I just now zoomed all the way in and there appears to be a gap. This occurs both when I have the "Move by whole pixel" enabled and disabled in the snapping tool. Here you can see a small gap when I am zoomed out and when zooming really really close you can see the gap be there clearer . Does anyone know why this issue occurs and how to set up the settings to eliminate it. I know the issue goes away when I export the image since the gap is less than a pixel wide but it is annoying not being able to preview your picture without exporting it.
