Set Export Persona transform to mm

[Sephen]

How do I set the export persona to mm?

[walt.farrell]

If you have the rulers showing, you can click on the Units shown at the intersection of the two rulers and change the units there.

(And if you don't have them showing, you can show them via the View menu.)

Or you can switch to the View Tool (Hand) and change the document units from the Context Toolbar.

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, Sephen said:

How do I set the export persona to mm?

I am pretty sure we cannot do that. Having said that I should point out that you can use mm (millimetres) in the Transform panel to size or change the slices simply by typing in 24mm in the boxes instead of just a number, it will instantly convert to pixels but it will be 24mm.

[walt.farrell]

43 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I am pretty sure we cannot do that.

Why?

[Old Bruce]

13 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Why?

I tried what you suggested and the Transform Panel stayed as pixels when using the Slice Tool. This is in the Export Persona.

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I tried what you suggested and the Transform Panel stayed as pixels when using the Slice Tool. This is in the Export Persona.

Works fine for me.

[Old Bruce]

Ah, another Windows versus Mac difference.

[Pšenda]

10 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Ah, another Windows versus Mac difference.

Yes, in Windows work fine.

The only thing that stays steadily in pixels is the title of the slice frame.

 

P.S. The readability of the slice title is really lousy.

Edited April 14, 2021 by Pšenda

[walt.farrell]

22 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Ah, another Windows versus Mac difference.

Might be worth a bug report.

[MEB]

It's not necessary to report this again. I've already logged it.

[Sephen]

And how does snapping work in the Export Persona (if it does)?

I'm not able to line up the slices with the guides. What ever i try. Which makes it very hard to export exact images for print.

[Pšenda]

It is in exactly whole pixels? 

[Old Bruce]

In my experience there is only snapping slices to slices, not guides or curves or objects. You may have to use the Layers panel to make slices from the objects on your Artboard/document canvas.

[loukash]

14 hours ago, Sephen said:

I'm not able to line up the slices with the guides. What ever i try.

I can confirm. Snapping Manager does nothing, slices only snap to themselves and to spread & mid points.
Looks like a bug to me. @MEB?

A quick'n'dirty workaround:

1. in Photo persona, create transparent (e.g. a "50% red overlay") vector rectangle shapes of the exact size of your slices
2. switch to Export persona and "convert" those rectangle layers to slices in the Layers panel
3. uncheck them so they don't export, you may want to name them something meaningful to keep track of them
4. use them as your "guides" for your real slices: those will snap

[MEB]

Hi @Sephen, @loukash,
This is by design. Slices use integer space positions, and so cannot be snapped to float space positions, such as guides and grids.

[loukash]

4 minutes ago, MEB said:

This is by design.

Hm…
That's the staff reply I like the least. ;)

So my clunky multistep workaround by creating temporary "snap-to-slices" is the only way? Apart from zooming in and aligning to the pixel where the guide sits on…

[MEB]

Your workaround may not be necessary/creates other issues. I don't know what's the context and workflow Stephen is doing/following but typically generating slices from objects/layers is the way to go. Would be nice to know what is he trying to achieve. 

[mrqasq]

delete, moved to v2 forum.