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What is this and how do I get rid of it?

Interesting. At first, I didn't see this dialog, I saw the one in the first image. Then I noticed the "more button at the bottom. Pressed it and got the dialog you posted. Looks like this - red where transparency should have been Thank you. Dave

OK, I make the background transparent as can be seen in the first picture. Then I output a .png and the background comes out red. Why? I'm using Affinity Photo on a MAC, latest version of both.

OK, just by way of comparison, I took the adobe file and opened it in Affinity, then re-exported it as an SVG again. This is what I got, but the only conclusion is that they're screwing with the parameters for no apparent reason. TestSVGfromAdobeThruAffinity.svg

Here are the SVG files from the two software packages. Not sure what's hard to tell from the picture. Two laser prints, one from each AD and AI, with a 1/16" scale out to 3". One is 3" (AI) the other (AD) not so much. Off by 4% or so, not even close to a reasonable margin of error. I realize SVG is crap on AD. I'm trying to get these examples back to them to review. I hate it when a software company builds such barriers to communication. Where should I post this in hopes that someone from Affinity will see it. Right now, AD, as interesting as it is, is totally dysfunctional for anything but art, IMHO. Dave TestSVGfromAffinityD.svg TestSVGfromAdobeI.svg

OK, here's the thing. I've been playing with all the option boxes and settings around SVG and more. Nothing seems to affect the output which is larger than it should be. Affinity Designer either has this capability or it does not. If it does, it shouldn't be so difficult to find. So, I'm suspecting it doesn't have it and so far no one can tell me differently. While I appreciate your responses, it is clear that you don't know either and, frankly, it's a waste of my time and yours to try to brainstorm this thing through a forum. Thanks anyway, but I'm looking for concrete answers - has anyone had success getting AD to output objects of the correct size????

There appears to be no way to constrain the output from AD to the size of the object as drawn. In AI, when I draw something at, say 3" x 3", the output (.svg file) can be used to print the object on a laser printer accurately. The resulting object is 3" x 3". In AD, it is somewhat larger - nearly 1/8" greater then 3"x 3". See photo, below: I cannot use AD in my work because of this flaw.

Not sure what that does for me - must I do it with every .svg I produce? How do I change it, because this is what is there now: <svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 5850 3450" And, the two .svg files (AI and AD generated) look entirely different. There is a place, when drawing one of the box lines where the AI text file shows a size of 216 x 216, which for 72 dpi would be 3", but there's nothing like that in the text from the AD .svg file.

I've used Adobe Suite for years, but got tired of paying their $50+/month tax just for the use of AI and Photoshop. I've spent thousands. Then found Affinity and use Photo a lot, and hoped that I could use Designer in lieu of AI for an often needed feature. I create objects for output to a laser printer/cutter/engraver. The problem is that when I save the object as .svg and output it to the laser, it changes the size. The attached picture illustrates this. I have two objects created exactly the same way in AI and AD. Both are 3" x 3" and use 0.25 points for the lines. The output from AI is exactly 3" x 3". The output from AD is a little more than 1/16" larger than the 3" x 3" as can be seen here. This makes AD entirely useless for my needs and I must now go back and grovel to Adobe.

Lame. I've got 60 layers to output and NEED them to all be the same size ... the size of the document. By creating slices first, the size is constrained to the size of the graphic, not the size of the document. Manually resizing 60 slices before exporting them is MORE WORK than exporting each layer individually. LAME!

There are so many good things about Affinity Photo. Then, you run into these silly little oversights. The point of using slices is to be able to export a layer ... in my case the whole layer, not just a piece of it. I want to export a .png, because there are areas on the layer that I want to be transparent. But, if the graphics don't touch the extremities of the drawing, the slice is smaller than the whole page. Going back and manually changing the size of the slice sort of defeats the purpose of using slices for bulk export. Might was well export each layer manually. A simple selection on creating slices or exporting entire layers (not slices) is really needed here. I've got 60 layers to export - doing it in bulk and then manually changing the size of the slice is MORE WORK than manually exporting each layer by itself. So, the above makes me guilty of the same thing that I am criticizing here. Not giving enough information. Your response leaves users (relatively new ones) frustrated. You could have, for example, given a simple solution that makes this whole thing MUCH EASIER with a simple work around. Here is that work around: Generate the slices of the objects (in my case there are 60, but in sets of 20 each of 3 differently sized objects of 3 different sizes). I then select all of the slices of one of the objects. I can resize all 20 of them by grabbing the corner handles and dragging them to the extent of the drawing - all 20 at one time. Do it for each of the other 2 shapes. So, in 3 actions instead of 60, I am able to get all slices to be exactly the same size - the size of the drawing and then, when I export them in bulk, the resulting .png files are all the same size. It would have been so simple for the designer gods at Affinity to have simple provided an option for sizing slices - to that of the object on the layers or to that of the whole document, regardless of what is on the layers.

I sent Wizaerd a message, but not sure he got it. I have Glowforge as well. But when I take a simple design (rectangle with some text inside) and output it to SVG and then print on the Glowforge, it comes out somewhat larger than the original size - by 10% or so. What can I do too make the output size true to the design? Thank you in advance. Dave

Are you serious. Affinity Designer is really NOT a vector tool at all, but a pixel tool made to look like vectors? That is really unfortunate! I cannot believe you have the bravado to publish it this way. I'd give up all pixel features in designer if it were truly a vector tool - NOT being able to output to a cutting tool renders it nearly useless to me and forces me back to AI. Awful!

Awesome!!!!!!! Thank you. Ultimately, I will use each of these elements on the internet to build up the various options. I was using the crop tool to assure that they all line up concentrically. I'll try this. I'm a believer and a fan. Will go ahead and install Affinity on my 2 PCs, my MAC and my iPad. Then cancel my Adobe subscription. Thanks again.

Flood select tool on what?