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5 hours ago, Axceus said:

When I tried to resize or change the image to export in inches I’m the dimension log in seems to do nothing , it keeps always in pixels and I need to be sure my image is exporting in the inches that I need .

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Hmm yes looks like a bug, the export panel appears to be stuck in pixels regardless of the document dimensions. Work around might be to resize the document to be in inches under Documents -> Resize, change units to inches and put required inches dimensions and required DPI setting (press white triangle at right of context bar to access DPI setting). When you export it will still stay in pixels but document dimensions should now be correct. 

 

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Hi Axceus,

Raster formats (PNG, JPG, TIFF etc) are not measured in traditional sizes and are always measured in pixels, so it should never change the units to read in inches. These formats get their physical dimensions from the DPI/PPI (dots/pixels per inch) they're placed at. 

This means that if you have 144 pixel document that uses 72 dpi it will be placed as 2 inches. However if the document was set to be 144 dpi then it will only occupy 1 inch. I'm sure there are much better resources that explain how pixels and DPI/PPI work together.

In the case of the desktop software if an inch value is typed into one of the size fields for a raster export, it will convert it into pixels using the document set DPI. So if your document is set to 144dpi and you type in 1" it will convert it to be 144 pixels. Unfortunately this isn't working on the iPad and is instead just replacing the unit to be pixels - this is the bug here! I will get this passed on to development.

P.s I'm aware there is technically a difference between DPI/PPI, but here is not the place for that.

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