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Hello Affinity, my colleague and I are working on a couple of documents in A4 format. In the process, we have encountered an extremely serious bug. When exporting the PDF, the format is changed. From 210 x 297mm document format in the designer, becomes a PDF with 210,1 x 297mm. This must not be!!! This is a serious bug in the software and must be fixed immediately. Error appears in version 1.8.5.703, Windows 10. Tested on two different computers. Error is reproducible: Open Affinity Designer. Create a new A4 document. Check the document setup again. 210 x 297mm. All okay here: Export the blank sheet as PDF: Open the generated PDF in a viewer and check the dimensions: now they are wrong! Double-check: Import the PDF in Affinity Designer and even there check the dimensions: wrong! Instead of 210 x 297mm, we've got 210,1 x 297mm. Please Affinity, fix this as soon as possible. Thank you. Jeff

I know this has been reported in the past but we still seem to have this issue and that is that PDF page sizes do not export to the correct size. They are off by up to 5/1000th of an inch. Here is an example: So in this example you have a ready to print PDF but on the left the page size is 5.503x2.130 while it's supposed to be what affinity shows and that is 5.5x2.125. This may not seem like a big problem but it really delays our Quite Imposing automation for printing. The file then has to be manually cropped in Acrobat. This happens with almost all files with multiple artboards. I have been told that I need to use for pixel alignment and that should correct it - I keep it on and I still get these results. Is there a way to resolve it on my end or is something that Serif must do? thanks!

I have a document created in former version. Size = 353mm x 244 mm + 8 mm bleed all around. Total size 369mmx260mm When I export in PDF including bleed, I get 369,1 x 260,1 mm, a rounding error. My printer doesn't accept that file. Afdesign file attached, as well as PDF In the meantime, I'll adjust my document size… by 0.1mm 200312 PaperCover.afdesign 200312_PaperCover.pdf

I use on Windows10 and macOS 10.15.1 and the latest versions of affinity designer. when I export a DIN A5 Artboard to a print file in 300 dpi, the size of the document will be showed later in the properties of the pdf-Viewer more than the size in affinity designer. for example: I create the DIN A5 artboard in the size 210 mm x 148 mm. in the properties of the file document I give 1mm around all sides for the cutting in the printing factory. so I must have a total size from 150 mm x 212 mm. BUT equal with which System (Windows or macOS) I export the document file, I became after opening the file with macOS a total size from 150,1 mm x 212,1 mm. when I open the same file with Windows 10, the size is correct. when I want to load up the file from macOS to a printing company, they don't accept the file (wrong size). from a windows system it works!!?? I don't know, where the mistake is... two screenshots for bettet understanding... best regards