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Very Small Bitmaps (8 bit style icons) Scaling Up without blurring


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I want to place some very small bitmaps (32x32 pixels for example) in Publisher and scale them up to a reasonable size (2" for instance). When I do though, Publisher uses a blurring effect which I'm sure is great for low resolution photos but not so great for 32x32 icons. How can I turn this effect off?

 

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Use an integer scale factor, plus make certain that the pixels are pixel aligned, change the Units of Measurement to Pixels and check in the transform panel that the x and y co-ordinates are integers (enter actual integers to be certain).

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 
Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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2 hours ago, danberlyoung said:

I found a solution. I was placing the image as a .afphoto document. When I exported it to a .png or a .jpg and then placed it again, it displayed hard edged.  .PSD, .EPS, .PDF and .afphoto documents all display blurry.

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That's strange. Maybe document DPI related? (source)

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