Is there a general antialias setting for Affinity Designer on Desktop?

[seloran]

Sometimes, I'm getting colours bleeding into the edges from the background.

[VIPStephan]

I don’t know of such a setting. But can you give an example of your problem?

[Old Bruce]

On 11/15/2022 at 6:38 AM, seloran said:

Sometimes, I'm getting colours bleeding into the edges from the background.

There is this, accessed from the cog wheel in the Layers panel for a selected layer.

     

[loukash]

On 11/15/2022 at 3:38 PM, seloran said:

Is there a general antialias setting for Affinity Designer on Desktop?

2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

There is this, accessed from the cog wheel in the Layers panel for a selected layer.

To make it a general setting, simply place all your document content into one "master" layer. That can even include all artboards, as they are also technically objects.
Then use the aforementioned Blend Ranges cog wheel to open the settings for this master layer.
Apart from the "either/or" Antialiasing popup menu, Blend Gamma and Coverage Map affect antialiasing as well. So you have several methods to fine tune it.

However, often you may get better results by adjusting objects selectively. That's why these options are available for every object individually.

Also to keep in mind:
If you plan to export to a pixel fomat, you should always preview your design in View > View Mode > Pixels

[loukash]

36 minutes ago, loukash said:

Apart from the "either/or" Antialiasing popup menu, Blend Gamma and Coverage Map affect antialiasing as well.

Actually I was partially wrong here:

• On "Layer", "Group" and "Artboard" type of layers/objects, only the Antialiasing popup menu seems to have effect.
• Whereas for Blend Gamma and Coverage Map you have to select objects like shapes, curves and text directly if you want to apply these attributes to them. Of course, you can select multiple objects and apply the Blend Range attributes to all of them in one go.