Blurry Forms

[imagodespira]

Hello, 

sometimes simple rectangles gets blurry on the border. It sometimes makes it impossible to work (i found very much such rounding errors  )

 

Here in this video i snipp a rectangle size to a ruler and then it gets blurry and i only can delete it... not usable in daily work. 

 

 

[imagodespira]

I just tried the las beta and loaded the project file. When i look here in the ruler settings, the position of the help line is 2627,5 instead of 2628 in the latest official build. 

The problem here is: In the official build, i set the pixel decimal places in the public build to 0 and the default (in latest beta) is 1. But PIXELS ARE PIXELS  No one who works with pixels needs half pixels, they does not exists. I thought if i set the decimal place to zero it also works internal with zero and if i draw a help line with the mouse i only could place it in full pixel positions and not only showing full pixels in input fields.

... sorry, but more and more it became un usable for me in some cases. Often this rounding problems are big issues for my daily work.

So manny thanks for adressing the issues!!!!!

 

[imagodespira]

More blurry issues if i rotate the rectangle... 6Pixels are 6 Pixels also if i rotate it 90 degrees

[Joachim_L]

2 minutes ago, imagodespira said:

Often this rounding problems are big issues for my daily work.

What I do: At least have 1 decimal place for pixels (for showing possible problems). Turn on Force pixel alignment. Turn off Move By Whole Pixels. Now you should be able to work pixel perfect with the help of the Transform pixel.

And about the half pixels or even smaller. Imagine placing a 100 x 100 mm document, which has a dimension of 283,464567 pixels. What should Affinity do with the value after the comma? Round up, round down, cut off?

[imagodespira]

Thanks for your reply, i will try with 1 decimal again (some time before, i found an entry to set it to zero  so i did it because i had much problems before). 

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And about the half pixels or even smaller. Imagine placing a 100 x 100 mm document, which has a dimension of 283,464567 pixels. What should Affinity do with the value after the comma? Round up, round down, cut off?

The problem is not if i have such a document. I use only pixels in my projects for GUI Elements in games. So a 4k pixel resolution is my default workspace. If i place a rectangle i don´t come to the choice of 100mm stuff, it should always a full pixel size. Yes, if my base are mm for print and paint a rectangle there, rounding is needed... But dragging an object in a pixel sized project should be not positioned in a half pixel way. 

I will try the checkboxes for pixel alignement and move whole pixels (both are selected here, in my opinion this should not result in halve pixels in this setting???). I will try abit with all checkboxes

 

 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, imagodespira said:

Thanks for your reply, i will try with 1 decimal again (some time before, i found an entry to set it to zero  so i did it because i had much problems before). 

I would recommend 3 decimals (or more) for px units. With only 1 decimal displayed you can still have misaligned objects and not know it.

Remember that this affects only the display of the positions. Whatever you specify all calculations are done internally with full precision (6 decimals?).

[imagodespira]

Ok, i will try...

My problem in all cases is that i need to export exact pixels and it works not well in Affinity. Sometimes i have different pixel sizes with objects but they are only copy from a base object with a different position (copy an object, paste it and move ... different object sizes after export). And this should not be. Maybe, and i hope it, i get it with some decimal settings and look at pixel snappings (so i have 3 options to play with and hope it works  ... ).

With photoshop i never had this issue. I know affinity devs can´t hear it  But it is, what it is... anyway. I am a big fan of Affinity Products and i hope that some issues can be adressed.

Regards and thanks again!

[Old Bruce]

Turn on Enforce Pixel Placement and turn off Move by Whole Pixels, turn off Snap to Midpoints of Objects. If, somehow, you have a fractional pixel placement (due to snapping to the midpoint of an object) then Move by whole pixels will move to a half pixel location and now the midpoint could be a quarter pixel.