arking116 Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Hi, I design woodworking projects on Affinity Designer and i use a lot of templates for my customer to cut out. It all worked fine til now. The pdfs that I export my templates to does not print the templates to the right size anymore. I can not figure out why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted July 13, 2022 Staff Share Posted July 13, 2022 Hi @arking116and Welcome to the Forums, Could you attach your afdesign file and an exported PDF file? If you can also let me know which app are you printing from we can investigate whats happening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arking116 Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 Thank you. I would appreciate that very much. The very first template, for example should print as exactly 9" in height. It prints at 8 1/4". This use to work for me just fine, but not now. Full templates.pdf Cedar 002 Frame Back Template.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted July 14, 2022 Staff Share Posted July 14, 2022 Hi @arking116, Thanks for the files. Can you give me some more information about your workflow, like the app you are printing from and the print settings you are using. Also do you have an exported file that did work that you can share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 Hi @arking116 - I don't understand what you mean. The afdesign file you provided uses artboard sizes of 111 x 144 inches. The PDF created from the file is the same size. Are you printing with a "Scale to fit"? I have tried printing "Scale to fit" from AfDes and from Acrobat and I also get the Acrobat print to be smaller. Maybe Acrobat and AfDesigner have different ways of calculating Scale to fit. stokerg 1 Quote Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted July 14, 2022 Staff Share Posted July 14, 2022 34 minutes ago, MickRose said: The afdesign file you provided uses artboard sizes of 111 x 144 inches That was what confused myself and the guys in Tech Support. Normally we'd expect this to be designed to scale but i know when it comes printing, there are a number of different workflows. We just want to rule out Affinity as being the cause of the issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arking116 Posted July 14, 2022 Author Share Posted July 14, 2022 Im not sure what the cause of this is. I am not really computer literate, but I decided last fall to do some of my plans up and try selling them on Etsy. I purchased Affinity and I'll admit, not being to familiar with it, I started doing my plans. It all worked perfect. I would take my templates to my shop and build the project using them and my written instructions to be certain that it all worked, and it did, til now. Now I think I l might have to shut down my site because of customer complaints. I have literally tried everything I could think of here and I have about 100 pages printed out, but to no avail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arking116 Posted August 3, 2022 Author Share Posted August 3, 2022 Problem solved. Thanks for all the support Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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