Affinity Designer: Clipboard dimensions value error

[Pyanepsion]

Hello to all,

I was pointing out an error that is all the more surprising because it seems to be deliberate. Copying an object to the clipboard and then creating a new document from that copy changes the unit of measurement (mm to px): Clipboard measurement unit error.

Here is another one. Copying also changes the dimensions of the object. We create a 210 × 297 mm page in 300 dpi¹ mm units. We create a 210 × 297 mm red rectangle on it.

¹ (In French we say PPP (Point par pouce). It is becoming very annoying to find systematically gross errors of translation in French everywhere, showing a complete lack of professionalism of the French translator. No, you don't translate with Google Translate, and no, you don't copy translations from another software! You ask native speakers who know the product. An also: DPI → PPP, Imprimer → Imprimante, Prêt à l’impression → Imprimerie, Architectural → Architecture.)

If you change the values of the new document at once. The dimensions seem to be correct. If you change them twice, first the unit of measurement, you save, then the resolution, the dimensions are not the same.

 

These repeated errors, here the units of measurement which should not be changed, but are, and there the dimensions which should not be changed, but are, raise serious doubts about the overall reliability of the tool.

The new document created when copying from clipboard should obviously use the same settings as the original document. Really.

[Sean P]

Hi Pyanepsion,

The first part of your video (changing both Units and DPI in the same dialog) may actually be a bug on the Windows version - as the Page Size shown in mm in the dialog isn't actually the size you get when you accept the dialog. On Mac the page size you get is the one displayed in the dialog. Windows does seem to be converting the physical units to pixels based on the DPI changed in the dialog where as Mac is not. I will get this clarified with development.

With regards to the section you think is a bug (changing just the DPI) - this is actually working correctly. If your document is set to use Physical units, then changing just the DPI will only affect the amount of pixels the document is using 'behind the scenes' on documents with physical units. Such as when you use the Pixel View or Export to default size.

For example. If you start with a an A4 document set to 300 DPI then changing just the DPI in that dialog to 96 you wouldn't expect the size to change to 67.2 mm x 95mm which is what would happen if your 'bug' was to be fixed.

Regarding the PPI/DPI wording - this has been convered countless times on the forums and development have decided to stick with DPI.

[Pyanepsion]

It is not PPI (Pixel per Inch), but PPP (Point per Inch). There are 3 other translation errors reported:

– Print has been translated as Imprimer when it refers to printers. The correct term here is Imprimante.

– Press ready has been translated as Prêt à imprimer, which is meaningless, or rather a misnomer, perhaps with confusion with Bon à tirer, (misunderstanding). The correct term is Imprimerie.

– Architectural has been translated as Architectural when it refers to specific American architectural paper formats. The correct term is Architecture. Note that in most other countries, plotters of architectural drawings use the international A2 to A0 formats.

[Sean P]

Thanks for that - I'll get those queries passed over to the Translation team.

[Pyanepsion]

Here is another topic about dpi:

 

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, Sean P said:

Regarding the PPI/DPI wording - this has been convered countless times on the forums and development have decided to stick with DPI.

This isn’t about the decision to refer to DPI instead of PPI, it’s about the poor translation. The ‘I’ in both DPI and PPI is the abbreviation for ‘Inch’ but the French equivalent is ‘Pouce’. Using the English abbreviation DPI when the interface language is set to French is like using ‘CMYK’ instead of ‘CMJN’ (which, I’m pleased to note, you don’t do).