alexkoch

No, stayed the same. I'm not sure how to attract attention to this topic, I would add the freezing exports when WebP is chosen as export format (already on this forum, different thread) Unfortunately we are at Version 2.0 by now, but some (all?) of the UI-bugs mentioned in my post are still present; it looks like the Export Module got new file formats (WebP) but everything else remained untouched. I always forget about the freezing issue, head over to the Export Persona (instead of using "my" workaround via Sketch) — sigh…

If you just set all center-x and center-y values to the same value you already have concentric circles (Just make sure the largest circle fits the document/viewbox sizes) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <svg version="1.1" width="500" height="500" viewbox="0 0 500 500" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <g fill="none" stroke="black" stroke-width="10"> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="30" /> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="50" /> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="70" /> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="90" /> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="110" /> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="130" /> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="150" /> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="170" /> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="190" /> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="210" /> <circle cx="250" cy="250" r="230" /> </g> </svg>

Hi Thanks for your response, All Media Lab David (I'll skip over the part where you suggest I didn't understand the Export Persona and Slices concept.) You are suggesting having several Versions of the source file, being different documents in different aspect ratios. Which is fine, but not exactly better or less work, and since the results would be the same it comes down to personal preference. And by all means, do it that way, no problem. My point is that AP does work the way I used it (for years, actually) — support for more than one slice per document hints at that — and some UI functions are broken or difficult to work with. E.g. proportional scaling not working (despite icon changing in the Transform palette) is a glitch, at best. And it made me loose quite some work. The main features/non-features (loosing the ar-constraints, not easily seeing which slice is active, no way to re-sort slice-layers) drove me to use Sketch for these multi export scenarios. Works super reliable. Not as cute as the seal, though.

Hi Affinity, hi forum I've run into a buch of issues with the Export Persona which I would like to share and add some thoughts/proposals… My workflow/setup was to set up a larger (~6K) canvas where I would paste one picture at a time and (re-)position predefined slices on it within the Export Persona. All slices have a fixed aspect ratio and several export sizes attached to them (1x1, 16x9, 3x2, 4x3… in 2500w, 1600w, 1200w etc.). As you may have guessed I'm exporting sets of images for responsive web html to be used in picture/srcset context. Things I ran into: It is hard to see which slice is active header bars and all slices equally visible makes it hard to position slices Slices can't be reordered in the panel batch-renaming or more path-component options would be useful (filename, timestamps…) path name components: user variables/tokens I can't get to work, they just vanish after typing them in layer palette (EP) only allows for changes to visibility, no moving fixed aspect ratio in slice palette transform tool seems not to do anything (chain symbol for width and height) shift-scaling (which does provide fixed aspect ratio) introduces rounding errors after some back and forth, slightly missing aspect ratio again Arrow and Slice-Pointer behave somewhat counterintuitive; arrow only activates layers, but won't switch to the layers tab; Add-Slice-Pointer moves slices also Some proposals: dim non-active slices in EP view, hide header bar add group-align features (left, right, center, top, middle, bottom) for selected slices make local path-components/tokens available in all slices ("myNewToken" instantly available in all path-composer instances… (per document)) allow for repositioning of layers in "Layers" tab in EP (idea: arrow pointer 😀) fix fixed-aspect-ratio function ("Transform" tab) – once set, scaling of a slice stays constrained please please add WebP format options in EP come up with a super smart idea on how to handle the even pixels/aspect ratio dilemma (I would prefer an "enforce even pixel over aspect ratio" and "enforce aspect ratio over single pixel scaling precision" toggle, which I would set to the latter an never touch again) Sorry for the moaning, I literally just lost a day of work due to some aspect ratio glitches, which left me with 250+ exported images, which ever so slightly made my pages jump – because 16x9 ended up being 16x9.1754, and even 1x1 went sideways in some cases… In case anyone is wondering: I absolutely love all Affinity software and evangelize everywhere… best Alex

2020 iMac (i7 32GB all SSD) Big Sur 11.1 MAS-Version 1.8.6 – launch time can be up to 30 Seconds, but not Minutes. Previous machine (late 2013 i7 16GB Fusion Drive) still on Mojave 10.14, but same 1.8.6 launches in couple of seconds. So it looks like the OS not the 1.8.6… maybe a 32/64bit thing? After one Affinity app has been launched under 11.1 (wether still running or not), all subsequent starts are about the same speed as on Mojave.

From my observations I would guess that it is the scaling process/interpolation which gets the layer transparency wrong, the layered image did the same thing when scaled down to 1920px width without any export… It looks identical to any jpeg export with transparent "holes" somewhere; they are filled in with solid white background. Thanks again for your fast response.

Just to check back – did you recieve the afphoto file?

I just downloaded the 1.7.2 update, but the results (scale/interpolate to jpg) are the same.

When exporting and scaling down an image (in one step) the edges of the single layers are rendered as 1px white lines. This occurs on the vertical edges of the layers and only when using the export persona with scaling (down). These white lines will appear regardless of the interpolation method (bilinear, lanczos) and are not visible while editing in the UI (any zoom). The lines do not appear in 1:1exports and/or with no interpolation at all (nearest neighbour…). The background color of the layers and the background layer are identical rgb(245,245,245), the layers are cut out with antialiasing unchecked and are checked for subpixel-positions, which they initially had (and I expected to be the cause, but apparently they weren't). I also tried: – re-cutting the edges a second time with no atialiasing (which is somewhat pointless due to the downscaling step on export) – nudging the layers a bit via the arrow keys to refresh the transform-panel's readout (subpixel angst) – using all the other interpolation methods – changing the size of the original (which gave me the same weird white edges, see "scaled-down-source-image-w-white-edges.jpg" The attached ui screenshot is zoomed out to show a similar size (thus a little blurry), the original file is ~3200x1670px. Sorry for the very light background, but this is real client work and almost went through without being noticed. The transparency demos are screenshots with hidden background. Mac OS 10.14.6, Affinity Photo 1.7.1, non-Retina 27" iMac 2013, 16 Gig RAM