thoroughburro Posted February 6, 2023 Posted February 6, 2023 I’ve been fighting with Affinity Designer 2 all day long, and it’s just so disappointing. I’ve tracked everything else down to known bugs (more fool me for not checking that basic features work before buying), but I can’t confirm this one… I’m trying to create a new document at 600 dpi using Affinity Designer 2 for iPad. I’ve seen people report this, only to be told you simply need to type in the value manually. As you can see from the attached video, entering 600 manually does not work. What am I missing? ad2_dpi.mov Quote
NotMyFault Posted February 6, 2023 Posted February 6, 2023 You cannot specify non-listed DPI at creation, but you can use resize document later after creation and specify any (whole number) DPI. thoroughburro 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
thoroughburro Posted February 6, 2023 Author Posted February 6, 2023 Thank you very much! I’m glad there’s a workaround, albeit unintuitive. It’s another of those “is this really a serious product” details, though. Maybe you’re getting into less common territory above 2400 dpi, but to imply by UI design that 600 dpi was an unforeseen use case is frankly bizarre. What industry is “400” targeted at, as an upper default? I know nobody has answers, I’m just upset that I’ve wasted so much of my day on this “upgrade” I paid for. bpedit 1 Quote
NotMyFault Posted February 6, 2023 Posted February 6, 2023 A share your pain. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
DM1 Posted February 6, 2023 Posted February 6, 2023 2 hours ago, NotMyFault said: You cannot specify non-listed DPI at creation You can, but only up to 400dpi. This surely has to be a bug as there is no logical reason for limiting. Post should be moved to Designer bug forum. 🤔 bpedit 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
Alfred Posted February 6, 2023 Posted February 6, 2023 3 hours ago, thoroughburro said: As you can see from the attached video Just as an FYI, your (Full HD?) video doesn’t display on my humble iPad Air 2. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Staff Lee D Posted February 26, 2023 Staff Posted February 26, 2023 This has been logged with our developers. Quote
AuntieParaïso Posted July 12, 2023 Posted July 12, 2023 (edited) On 2/26/2023 at 11:16 AM, Lee D said: This has been logged with our developers. And what is happening? Upgraded to V2 Suite today from the old apps and still not possible to change or create a document in 600 dpi in eighter Publisher or Photo?! So here I am, working in my old versions ... SO happy I didn't delete them – but I feel really stupid. Why a 400 dpi limit? It must be a bad joke? Edited July 12, 2023 by AuntieParaïso Quote
Bryan Rieger Posted August 18, 2023 Posted August 18, 2023 Just bumping this again as this is still driving me nuts on the iPad. Having to resize the document immediately after your create it (the workaround) is getting old. Quote
NotMyFault Posted August 18, 2023 Posted August 18, 2023 53 minutes ago, Bryan Rieger said: Just bumping this again as this is still driving me nuts on the iPad. Having to resize the document immediately after your create it (the workaround) is getting old. You can save your own templates from existing documents with the desired dpi. This might reduce the pain. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
cubelodyte Posted August 19, 2023 Posted August 19, 2023 This is very disappointing. I was hoping Affinity would be an adequate replacement for Adobe, but things like this make it nearly impossible to produce professional work. Quote
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