Extra surrounding area in .tiff export?

[Otto Manuel]

Hi,

 Occasionally when I export a .Tiff from Affinity Designer, I have objects that extend beyond the projects borders, so they are "cropped" by the frame.

 When I export as a .Tiff with the "Selection without Background" option I get the extra space occupied by the unseen portions that had appeared to be cropped.

 If I manually type the intended image size, I just get a relatively smaller image that also includes the extra spacing.

 I have an attached a illustrative example. There are 4 vector circle objects. The rings extend beyond the borders of the Affinity Designer project frame. With the export you can see that the imagery was cropped but the image size somehow includes the space required to store the remainder of the items.

 I have been resolving this by cropping the image after the export, but am wondering if I could do something in advance so that the exports are cropped to match the framing I see in Designer.

 Thank you!

 Affinity Designer 1.8.4+ Win 7 x64

 

[GarryP]

When you export with “Selection without Background” you are exporting the whole of everything which is selected which, in this case, includes the parts of the layers which are not inside the canvas. I’m fairly sure that this is expected behaviour as the software can’t know that you mean “The bit of the selection which I can see, without the background”.
You can get round this in different ways depending on how your document is constructed and how you want to do things.
One way is to set the Document Background to be Transparent and then just export the “Whole document”.
Another way is to put your layers within another layer which fills the canvas or area you want to export – for example, a rectangle with no fill or stroke – and then select that layer and export that with “Selection without Background”. (This doesn’t work with a Group instead of a layer as the entire Group will be exported including the ‘invisible bits’.)
Yet another way is to use the Export Persona and create a Slice which covers the visible canvas and export that Slice instead of the document or selection.

There will be other ways but they will depend on your exact circumstances.

[Dan C]

Hi @Otto Manuel,

Sorry to hear you're having trouble!

It sounds as though your objects are cropped, in Affinity this simply means that you can no longer see the 'cropped' section of the object, however the information for the rest of the object is still present, simply 'hidden'.

Without seeing your document I am somewhat guessing, however if you right-click on your cropped layers and select 'rasterise & trim', then try exporting your document again - does this provide the expected results?

Many thanks

[Otto Manuel]

4 hours ago, GarryP said:

One way is to set the Document Background to be Transparent and then just export the “Whole document”.

H @GarryP,

 Thank you for considering the question and offering so many good solutions. The suggestion of setting the document background to transparent seems like a very comfortable way to work. Thank you!

Hi @Dan C,

 Thank you!

[GarryP]

You're welcome.