Eddy-2 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 New drawing. I add a green rectangle and clip-copy it. File menu > New From Clipboard. The new drawing just shows a green rectangle, as expected. I place a red rectangle above the green one (bottom edge red to top edge green). I select both rectangles and then File menu > Export. I select the export area as 'Selection without background'. The export size tallies with the size in the Transform panel. The .jpg picture that's exported is the correct size but the red rectangle has been changed to white. What's happening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 It would help to know which Affinity application you're working with, but I'll assume Designer for now. Your red ractangle is outside of the canvas. While it can be selected along with the green rectangle, and the Transform panel will show that size, if you look at File > Document Setup you will see that the document size is just the size of the green rectangle. Exporting will not include any content that is not within the document canvas, or within an artboard, as far as I know. You would need to resize the document so it includes the red rectangle in order to export it. One easy way to do that: With both rectangles selected, choose the Artboard Tool, switch the Size field in the Context Toolbar to Selection, then click the Insert Artboard button. Eddy-2 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy-2 Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 Thanks Walt and it is Design I'm using. The problem cropped up on another drawing and I did what you said about increasing the canvas size. What I couldn't understand is why Export includes the selection size rather than just the canvas size. If I select Whole document as the export area, it does limit the output to the canvas size, as expected. No great problem, it just seems a bit odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I agree it seems odd, Eddy. And I'm not certain it's supposed to work that way, but it's enough of an edge case that I won't worry about it, nor expend the effort to see if it's been reported as a bug Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy-2 Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 Incidentally, thanks for the Artboard tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 You're welcome. Glad to have helped. Eddy-2 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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