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When exporting a file from Designer it keeps messing up the sizes. Relative the sizes are fine, but the measurements are not the what I set.

What I've tried:

EPS

SVG (with 300 and 72 DPI, with Set ViewBox enabled and disabled).

I need the measurements to be correct (I worked in mm, in the document everything is exactly right) because I want to convert it to DXF for CnC.

There are a LOT of other similar posts. I've tried a lot of the answers I've seen floating around, nothing works. It always gives me weird results.

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Hi @Stinn,

Sorry to hear you're having trouble! If possible, could you provide a copy of your Affinity document so I can look into this further for you?

If you'd like a private upload link for this file, please let me know :)

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4 hours ago, Stinn said:

SVG (with 300 and 72 DPI, with Set ViewBox enabled and disabled).

If you show the exported/generated SVG file, we can look into it's code, in order to identify what the problem might be here for that export then.

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4 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

If you show the exported/generated SVG file, we can look into it's code, in order to identify what the problem might be here for that export then.

The SVG sets the document size (pixels) as integers. Which results in data loss with DPI because my document size (in Designer) was set in mm integers.

The weird thing is EPS does store the correct high quality pixels (with 2 decimal places) but doesn't use them when importing, resulting in the same rounding error.

PDF does the exact same. Since all of them are mainly web documents I guess pixels make sense, it's just annoying. I'll use rounded pixel document sizes in the future. That would fix the problem since positions are stored as floats.

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