gary danang Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Hi Everyone I really am having a lot of coordination problems between Designer and Publisher... maybe I have got conceptually the wrong end of the stick but I cannot find any good tuturials on how they interact with one another. In this specific problom I have designed an object in Designer... it is a simple rectangluar sign 100mm x 100mm I just want to copy this into a page in Publisher,, so naturally I copy it in Designer , Paste in the Publisher on a page... To my shock reverything gets resized,, in this case smaller [24 x24mm ] what in hell is going on???? in both cases the document / file units are set as mm and in both files the page size is A3 is is a basic bug... Yes, I could build the design in Publisher using the Designer persona... [In fact, that is the workflow I am persueing , but I have a lot of artwork already in Designer.. Interestingly, when i copy/paste form Publisher to Designer the size is respected, no change happens???? Actually, I expected the Studiolink between Publisher and Designer to be the same as between Publisher and photo,, it definately does not! Frankly, I expected to be able to insert a designer file into publisher [as a link] and have it editable and dynamically updated regardless of which app I worked in... At the moment I cannot even reliably COPY / PASTE between them PS, I don't have a problem with scaling that I can control ,, eg it would be good if I can take a full size design in Designer and insert/link it as a smaller scale object in publisher... but I need to have explicit control of that scaling This is how most CAD drafting packages operate! All affinity software are the latest reelases , W10 latest patch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 I cannot replicate this behaviour. Create 100×100mm rectangle in Designer, copy, paste into Publisher and I get a 100×100mm rectangle as expected, see attached video. Can you supply a sample document which exhibits the behaviour you mention? 5 hours ago, gary danang said: This is how most CAD drafting packages operate! Note: Neither Designer nor Publisher are CAD applications. 2021-02-25 09-49-10.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 100/24mm = 4.1666666666666666666666666666667 300/72dpi = 4.1666666666666666666666666666667 gary danang 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary danang Posted February 25, 2021 Author Share Posted February 25, 2021 Thanks Carl. I am familar with CAD software and surprised that Affinity overides physical dimensions with screen density settings .... Is this typical in DTP software... why does DPI even come into play when I specifically set my units to mm? PS, any explanation why when going form Publisher to Designer there is no scale change between the two files? actuaklly, I just checked DPI setting in both files, they are the same, 96dpi Futhermore.. when I change the DPI in my affinity file , BUT still keep my units as mm , my document is scaled down in mm.. this is surely a bug........ This does not happen in Publisher - see images below And GarryP - CAD or not CAD is irrelevent... we are dealing in physical dimensions .. Pwerpoint is not "CAD" software ..and does not exhibit these anomolies . neith does CorelDraw or Inkscape ! PS. just installed the Designer 1.9.1 patch - Did not fix this problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary danang Posted February 25, 2021 Author Share Posted February 25, 2021 Here is the Designer file VHIS HOTEL SIGNS P3.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary danang Posted February 25, 2021 Author Share Posted February 25, 2021 OK, might have discovered the scaling problem... though I cannot find and documentation on what the Designer to Publisher workflow is.. [hinting at a tutorial here] I was opening Designer and Publisher separately and copy / pasting between them - that is when I got the scaling problem I just watched a Video on Typography Fundementalss by Emily Goater and during that tutorial she opened the designer file from within Publisher. It opens in a separate tag and I was able copy / paste with no scaling problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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