any Affinity Export size issue

[shustovcreates]

Hi! I have reaally annoying issue.

I created a file. Basically 2 identical artboards 160 px height.  When I export it says it will be 161 and it draws weird line above and below my image

Artboards dont contain decimals in any size or location

Please help.

I pinned  everything to my post

edit:

i tried to export both artboards to psd one by one. yellow one turned out 159 px and green 160px

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[R C-R]

30 minutes ago, shustovcreates said:

Artboards dont contain decimals in any size or location

Not true. The Y position of your Беларусь 2 artboard is (to 3 decimal places) located at 221.517 px. Change that to an integer number like 221 or 222 px & it will export at 160 px height.

Just guessing but you probably have "Decimal Places for Unit Types" in Preferences > User Interface set to 0 (zero) for pixel units. That UI preference only determines how many decimal places will be displayed in the UI, so if it is set to zero in the Transform panel & other places you will just see the values  rounded off to the nearest whole pixel.

If you do not want to change this preference, one way to avoid this is to explicitly enter an integer number of pixels in the Transform panel (like 221 or 222).

[Joachim_L]

What R C-R says is correct, but feels wrong (to me). I mean, the size of the artboard is correct, so why is the position important? If I place an element on a A4 page and export the selection the position on the A4 is irrelevant.

[shustovcreates]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

Not true. The Y position of your Беларусь 2 artboard is (to 3 decimal places) located at 221.517 px. Change that to an integer number like 221 or 222 px & it will export at 160 px height.

Just guessing but you probably have "Decimal Places for Unit Types" in Preferences > User Interface set to 0 (zero) for pixel units. That UI preference only determines how many decimal places will be displayed in the UI, so if it is set to zero in the Transform panel & other places you will just see the values  rounded off to the nearest whole pixel.

If you do not want to change this preference, one way to avoid this is to explicitly enter an integer number of pixels in the Transform panel (like 221 or 222).

Ok..Thanks. the situation was:

1 file was created on ipad. as i aware, ipad doesnt have this decimal mess in it. so i cant even tweak. 

2 i find out that affinity wrecks my export again. Im already aware of this unreasonable feature of decimals. 

3 load this file on desktop. my desktop has correct settings. but it doesnt help. it still doesnt work. it shows 222 instead of correct  221.517

4 after your reply, i just re-typed artboard position manually to 222 and it fixes itself.

i  would love to get devs response to this. this is unreasonable, why would i even care about such stuff. every time i use affinity for business it messes up in most unexpected places =(

Thank you @R C-R

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, shustovcreates said:

load this file on desktop. my desktop has correct settings. but it doesnt help. it still doesnt work. it shows 222 instead of correct  221.517

 

As R C-R suggested, you should adjust the setting for Pixels to 3. That would let you see the issue on your desktop application.

As for the iPad application, appropriate Snapping options should enable you to create your artboards on the proper pixel boundaries, and with appropriate pixel sizes. But if you're having problems you could respecify sizes and locations in the Transform panel to make sure they're correct.

[shustovcreates]

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

As R C-R suggested, you should adjust the setting for Pixels to 3. That would let you see the issue on your desktop application.

As for the iPad application, appropriate Snapping options should enable you to create your artboards on the proper pixel boundaries, and with appropriate pixel sizes. But if you're having problems you could respecify sizes and locations in the Transform panel to make sure they're correct.

I guess you right. I wanted to make it zero but because ipad still lacks this weird functionality I wouldnt be able to track if something is wrong

[R C-R]

56 minutes ago, shustovcreates said:

I wanted to make it zero but because ipad still lacks this weird functionality I wouldnt be able to track if something is wrong

As I mentioned earlier, you can explicitly enter integer values for these values in any of the Affinity apps. For example, in the iPad version of Designer, tap the Transform Studio icon, & then tap any of the Dimension or Position buttons to bring up the keypad. Using that, you could set the artboard Y position to exactly 221 or 222 px.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Joachim_L said:

What R C-R says is correct, but feels wrong (to me). I mean, the size of the artboard is correct, so why is the position important?

It probably feels wrong to you because you are not considering all the export options, specifically the Area > "Whole document" one....