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Place the mouse cursor over a text entry box and the tooltip which popups tells you. - Aka it's width x height, thus first is width!

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Thank you. My computer has an accessibility feature for visual impairment in which the mouse size is enhanced and the popup identifiers are not able to be seen when this accessibility feature is in use. Thank you for pointing this out.

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57 minutes ago, Nikon Girl said:

In the resize document feature, which measurement is listed first? Is it Length or Width?

Its X - Y or width - height. Note the checkbox "Portrait" below which swaps the dimensions automatically.

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43 minutes ago, thomaso said:

...vNote the checkbox "Portrait" below which swaps the dimensions automatically.

There is no "Portrait checkbox" for "Document >Resize document ..." !

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The tooltip which shows what this field is meant to be for:

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2 hours ago, Nikon Girl said:

In the resize document feature

42 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

There is no "Portrait checkbox" for "Document >Resize document ..." !

It depends on the Affinity app whose "resize document feature" is meant to be used ;)

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45 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

There is no "Portrait checkbox" for "Document >Resize document ..." !

@thomaso may have been referring to the File > Document Setup window in Affinity Designer, which is how the resize document feature is implemented in that app. (The OP just asked about "the resize document feature" without specifying which app she was using.)

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Can't tell for Publisher never used and don't have that one! - Well the OP may next time better also name explicetely the app she is asking after for specific help, since there are quite slightly differences between the Affinity apps!

 

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1 minute ago, v_kyr said:

Can't tell for Publisher never used and don't have that one!

APub has a Spread Setup window that can be used to resize all or selected spreads or pages. It has a Portrait checkbox but (at least on my Mac) no popup for the Dimension fields indicating which is height & which is width. (It is however width then height, like all the others.)

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6 minutes ago, R C-R said:

It has a Portrait checkbox but (at least on my Mac) no popup for the Dimension fields indicating which is height & which is width. (It is however width then height, like all the others.)

These things (like the tooltip popups etc.) should be UI-wise more consistent between the Affinity apps here.

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39 minutes ago, R C-R said:

(at least on my Mac)

On mine too ;)

41 minutes ago, R C-R said:

no popup for the Dimension fields indicating which is height & which is width

It doesn't need this indicator, it swaps automatically according to the Portrait checkbox setting. Like in the "New..." dialog window.

 

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I am making adjustments to both the canvas and the document for my project. When I go into the menu to check the settings of each variable, they are always the same despite my canvas having been adjusted as larger than the image. How can I have relative border consistency and guage further adjustments if I can't see the value attributions of each variable?

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About which of the Affinity tools are we talking here in this thread?

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23 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

About which of the Affinity tools are we talking here in this thread?

I would assume Affinty Photo as it is the only one that has a Resize Document and Resize Canvas option, neither of which has a "Portrait checkbox" as you pointed out earlier.

8 hours ago, Nikon Girl said:

When I go into the menu to check the settings of each variable, they are always the same despite my canvas having been adjusted as larger than the image. How can I have relative border consistency and guage further adjustments if I can't see the value attributions of each variable?

@Nikon Girl I think it would be helpful if you're able to post a screenshot of what you are seeing as that will likely make things much clearer for everyone and we'll be better placed to help you.

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@Nikon Girl are you able to upload a screengrab so we can see the issue as you are seeing it, I think it will make it easier to help you?

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This is what the menu looks like for both selections "resize document" and "resize canvas" after I have resized the canvas. Whichever one I manipulate alters the information in both menus to read the same, even though my canvas is clearly larger.

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39 minutes ago, Nikon Girl said:

This is what the menu looks like for both selections "resize document" and "resize canvas" after I have resized the canvas. Whichever one I manipulate alters the information in both menus to read the same, even though my canvas is clearly larger.

You can turn on rulers, in order to better see how it affects your image in contrast to document/canvas changes. The transform panel should show you the overall size of the selected layer boundaries there.

 

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Basically, Resize Document will resize the canvas together with all of the objects on it where as Resize Canvas will only resize the canvas leaving objects at their original size... so Document and Canvas will always be the same size, it's the relationship between the document/canvas and the objects on it...

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Why would augmenting my image size influence the canvas size? It does not give the appearance of doing such visually in the software, but the drop down menus indicate numerically that they are synched. Again- I may be missing something quite basic here, but I don't understand why they are two different things, but end up synchronized numerically but not visually?

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If you have say a 5" x 3.6" photo that fills your canvas, changing the canvas size to 7" x 5" will leave your photo as 5" x 3.6" but make your canvas larger and you will now see a border around your image. Both your canvas and your document are now 7" x 5" but your photo is still 5" x 3.6".

Taking the same example above, changing the document size from 5" x 3.6" to 7" x 5" will change both the document and the canvas to 7" x 5", the only difference is that in doing so your original 5" x 3.6" photo will also be scaled up at the same time, so instead of your photo remaining at 5" x 3.6"  it is now also 7" x 5".

So Resize Canvas is effectively just giving you more space to work whilst leaving your original image unchanged, whereas Resize Document is scaling your image.

35 minutes ago, Nikon Girl said:

Why would augmenting my image size influence the canvas size?

Because by Resizing your document, you are scaling your image and therefore for all of your image to be visible the canvas needs to resize accordingly.

I'm not sure if I'm explaining this particularly well... but if, as @v_kyr suggested, you turn the rulers on in your document it may help to visually see what is happening to your image size when using both Resize Document and Resize Canvas. I think the reason they perhaps don't appear to be synchronized visually is because regardless of the change in document size, the screen view remains at Zoom to Fit even though the physical dimensions of the document are changed. I can understand the logic of that but maybe if the zoom level actually reflected the change in size of the document it would make it more obvious visually but at the same time annoy everyone...

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