William Overington

Does that give a result different from the result of changing the number of pixels in the text box in the png export dialogue panel? William

I should have written that I design in A3 size at 300 dots per inch resolution. William

I often design in A3 size with the idea to print in A3 size if i decide to buy some prints. I produce a reduced size image to post in this forum. William

When I saw your picture, for me it resonated with a picture in a music video. The resonating image is a bit before and a bit after, and at, 3 minutes 20 seconds of the video. But some readers might choose to play the whole video.

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Yet I want to be able to set sizes in integer values that are in one to one correspondence with the dots (as in dots per inch) that a physical printer uses in case I want to get a print. Then I get on the print precisely defined edges to such shapes as filled rectangles. Of inches, millimetres or centimetres, only whole numbers of inches will do that. I am not going to use floating point values with a chunkier measurement unit when a facility to use integer values with a measurement unit that has one to one correspondence with the dots is available to me. As the document is set at 300 dots per inch then the use of pixels does have real meaning in the physical world. William

Because use of pixels as the measurement unit allows me to set the position and size of text frames and objects with the maximum available precision using whole numbers. From time to time I buy a few, sometimes two, sometimes five, A3 size prints from a print house. When I start some artwork I do not know whether I may decide to buy some prints. So I make all such artwork ready to be used to produce an A3 size PDF document to send to the print house if I choose to buy some prints of that particular artwork. William

Oh yes. Ah. Indeed, yes. Quite probably, but there could be issues over the bleed areas, I am not sure. Anyway, A3 allows me to have items quite large in pixels and it is how I choose to proceed. i find A3 to be a nice size to have a print, just personal choice I suppose. William

My original artwork was A3 size, and I work using pixels as the measurement units. A3 is given as 4960.6 by 3507 pixels. In fact, I have the large rectangles as 5160 pixels wide set though there is 100 pixels outside of the canvas. Exporting as a png is at one-seventh linearly, so 709 by 501. I set the 501 in the box and then the 709 is set automatically. I start with A3 so that I keep open the option to get an A3 size print. William

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And so it goes on. A post asks a question. One reply already. A few people posting, yet the thread is getting lots of views, Perhaps people watching and ready to declare an interest if the Affinity team announces an intention to have an art show of images produced by some of its customers using Affinity products. William

Trying a restart with a new way of proceeding. William

I was thinking that I would like to make progress with writing the novel. That rather than thinking of producing some art using Affinity Designer, which is what I have done on other occasions, other threads. Thinking that it was rather complicated to work out how to continue, I decided that a graphical illustration of which chapters still needed writing would probably be helpful. So I set about producing the diagram using Affinity Designer as a tool to do that, looking at the following web page as I proceeded so as to find out which chapters were not yet written. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/locse_novel2.htm When the diagram was nearing completion I realized that posting it in this forum it might not be clear as to where the dividing line between the diagram and the background of the Share your work forum web page is located. So I decided at that time that when otherwise complete, I would add a background colour to the diagram. I used the Rectangle Tool with a zero width border, then I set the size and location using the Transform panel, chose the fill colour and then moved it to the back. William

But then the boxes with the digits in would be off the canvas. By making the Chapter 0 square at (1000, 1000) and the cells 100 pixels square I have everything on the canvas and also have nice round numbers for locating items. William

I have produced this graphic to help me continue to write the novel. The graphic shows a green square for each chapter that still needs to be written, though Chapter 0 refers to the Title Page and other pages such as half title and colophon, though the colophon is at the end. The exported image is at half scale. I produced the image in an A3 landscape document, working in pixels, I only exported the image, not the whole A3 page. I worked using pixels as the measurement unit. I devised a way of working so as to make the image as straightforward to produce as possible. The background colour panel was added at the end, so most of the time it was not present. Everything is on an imagined grid with each cell 100 pixels square and with the upper left corner of the cell being at an X value an exact number of hundreds of pixels and the Y value at an exact number of hundreds of pixels. In addition, the upper left corner of the Chapter 0 green-filled square is at X=1000 and Y=1000. So adding other green-filled squares is as easy to do as possible. I copied the square at (X=1000, Y=1000) onto the clipboard. For each green-filled square needed, to indicate a chapter that still needs to be written, I simply pasted a green filled square and then adjusted its position using the Transform panel. For example, for Chapter 67. Paste a green-filled square. In the Transform panel, this is at (X=1000, Y=1000). Now change the X value to 1700 and the Y value to 1600. The new green-filled square is now located in the correct place. William

No. It was a post late at night trying to think about how to do it. The grouping might not be necessary, but as it only takes a short time to do, it is something I tend to do. I find that if I am doing something a bit complicated that writing a few notes with pen and paper as I proceed often makes it much easier to get a good result. As for plodding through it methodically, well if there are lots of frames needed then unless the repeated power duplication produces the EXACTLY result that is required (and I accept that it might - I had not known of power duplication until reading your post) then a marathon plodding session might be the only way to get the required result. On an off-topic note, your example graphic has six steps. How about continuing for lots of steps and posting the result in Share your work together with an explanation of how to do it please? William

@Alfred Is there a way to do it a frame at a time by grouping everything on the canvas, then doing a copy and paste to a new frame, then using the transform panel to enlarge the image, perhaps around the centre of the grouped items? Somewhat mathematical some may say, but by writing it all down on a piece of paper and methodically plodding through it, the desired result might be obtained with precision and provenance. Some fancy method might work but it might end up in a muddle, depending on what the fancy method deems that the person wants and is going to get! William

The thread in the Share your work forum is interesting. Hopefully the Affinity team will see teh following post, amongst others. William

@GarryP I am wondering why you chose that particular name as the name of the author? There was a famous singer of that name active particularly in the 1950s. William

Conniption Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster William

Is that the name of the purported publisher of the book at the base of the spine? Conniption Apparently it is an American word for a display of bad temper as in having a conniption. So the emoji-like logo just above the name expresses that well. William

No, that would be flagged as an error by the (as far as I know not yet existing) software system as the specification is that as the first digit and the third digit are the same, then that number of extra digits (and no more digits) are needed for a well-formed code number. If you want a longer code number then make the third digit a zero and then follow it with three digits to indicate how many more digits after that are needed. So, for example !810123 would be followed by 123 digits after those six digits. The second group of digits can be any number from 000 to 999 so that the specification provides for a vast encoding space. At present the longest codes are six digits and the shortest three digits. There is a way to go outside of the encoding specification without disrupting it. As for example was done by a company in the first novel where codes starting 883 were used, as codes using an immediately repeated digit in the first three digits are not used in the system that I have devised. William

Well, yes. 😁 William