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I apologize if this problem is posted, but I could not get the search results to recover anything between 0 and 80,000 responses.

I have created a simple test document on my 11" iPad Pro (2nd generation), US letter size. I sent the drawing to my Brother Inkjet. The portrait image prints about ¼ size, rotated 90˚ and offset to the right.

I exported this drawing to a pdf and printed it. It prints correctly, no problem. When I print this from Affinity Designer on my desktop, no problem. The image in the print dialog is exactly what I want, but I get a useless result when printing.

It is entirely possible that months ago I bought the desktop version and not the iPad version, but the software gives me no indication that the printing requires another purchase and I have not received a reply from Affinity about this.

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2 hours ago, Grimstad said:

but the software gives me no indication that the printing requires another purchase

No other purchase needed. Affinity utilise the iPads iOS print manager.

Simple test: I created a new document A4 print press ready, measurements in inches. Add grid. Set grid spacing to 0.5 inches. (Possible bug showing here as once again the maximum spacing is limited to 0.853). Draw a rectangle exactly 2” square. Check Dimensions in Transform studio (shows 2x2 inches). Tap Document menu/Print. Select printer and print. Measure size of square on printed output. In this case the printed rectangle was exactly 2x2 inches on my brand new printer (old printer killed by lightning strike!) Check the dimensions in Transform studio. If still printing quarter size I’d say it’s a printer issue. 🙂

 

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M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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Thank you very much for the time you gave to this reply. I have checked my test image and it measures 7.9" x 10.2" in the Transform window. The print dialog box shows exactly what I want. If I export this to a pdf, it prints from my pdf application just fine. No other application has ever behaved like this, but no other application has so limited a set of print options. The problem appears to be that I cannot see in Designer what it thinks the printer expects. Perhaps a future version will address this.

No doubt there is something in a cache or communication that is causing this issue. I simply do not know what I can do to fix it. It seems unlikely, though not impossible, that the issue could be in my iPad. Since I just replaced one device with a brand new iPad, it must me more than a reboot issue. Of course, since the new iPad was restored from the old (both iPad Pros), a software glitch could have migrated in the process.

My reason for wanting to use Affinity Designer on the iPad is that I love the pencil for illustration. Affinity Designer has a superior way to magnify and make small printing look natural. Other applications often defeat small handwriting with excessive smoothing. For the time being, I will use Autodesk Graphic, Concepts, Paper, or Adobe Sketch. I have purchased all and (except for the fact that I can barely see the icons) Designer is my favorite.

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15 minutes ago, Grimstad said:

Thank you very much for the time you gave to this reply. I have checked my test image and it measures 7.9" x 10.2" in the Transform window. The print dialog box shows exactly what I want. If I export this to a pdf, it prints from my pdf application just fine. No other application has ever behaved like this, but no other application has so limited a set of print options. The problem appears to be that I cannot see in Designer what it thinks the printer expects. Perhaps a future version will address this.

No doubt there is something in a cache or communication that is causing this issue. I simply do not know what I can do to fix it. It seems unlikely, though not impossible, that the issue could be in my iPad. Since I just replaced one device with a brand new iPad, it must me more than a reboot issue. Of course, since the new iPad was restored from the old (both iPad Pros), a software glitch could have migrated in the process.

My reason for wanting to use Affinity Designer on the iPad is that I love the pencil for illustration. Affinity Designer has a superior way to magnify and make small printing look natural. Other applications often defeat small handwriting with excessive smoothing. For the time being, I will use Autodesk Graphic, Concepts, Paper, or Adobe Sketch. I have purchased all and (except for the fact that I can barely see the icons) Designer is my favorite.

Your printer has an App associated with it where you should have additional control over the printer. Install it if you have not already. When I have problems with AirPrint I instead use Export —> Share —> Share to your Printer App to print directly using this alternative method.

 

Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.0 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB
Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on  Windows 10 Pro.  (revived !)
Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography

The hardest link to find https://affinity.help

Mud’s Macros Library:-

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/156842-muds-macros-v11-library-content-aware-move-added/

 

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