Hate export preview

[cgartists]

Seriously this slows down my work by many minutes daily. And it is hardly ever useful anyways as if I want to export bit or whole artboards it doesn't remember if I previously exported selection to suggest it for next export or often mistakes/ignores selected artboard for exaport and generates whole file's preview if I want just selection and I have to wait long to select selection only...

This feature is bad. I want an option to kill it.

[Seneca]

1 minute ago, cgartists said:

This feature is bad. I want an option to kill it.

Other users may find it useful though.

Rather than killing it I would advise you to post your suggested improvements to the beta forum so the team can evaluate your suggestions.

That way you get improved export preview and we all will benefit from your suggestions.

[Pšenda]

5 hours ago, cgartists said:

Seriously this slows down my work by many minutes daily.

And why should preview slow down your work? - just ignore it, don't wait for the preview to finish and do export.

[cgartists]

On 2/24/2023 at 9:52 PM, Pšenda said:

And why should preview slow down your work? - just ignore it, don't wait for the preview to finish and do export.

When export panel opens it starts generating image preview and until it goes for some time it doesn't allow changing any of the options on the right.

Like now I was exporting preview of a big banner and it is 600x300cm @300DPI as a file and when I export it initially has 70k pixels... or if it has few versions in one file (artboards) and by default it is Whole document for example, so it was ~20s until I was able to type the size to 3000px for just preview. Or when I select one artboard and affinity ignores it and generates whole file preview and I have to wait till it stops calculating to change the setting to one of the artboards... and then I wait to be able to type say 2000px..

@Seneca this is a feedback forum and I gave feedback. I don't want to kill it - I sometimes use the preview function but I want an OPTION to kill it. Like a Preview tick in export dialog window.

[GRAFKOM]

17 hours ago, cgartists said:

When export panel opens it starts generating image preview and until it goes for some time it doesn't allow changing any of the options on the right.

Correct.
With small projects, e.g. A4, the preview appears quickly, while with projects of 8x3 meters, the preview takes a long time to generate and prevents any change of parameters or selection of the format to png, jpg, pdf or other.
I don't understand why Serif is reluctant to put the Preview button... as it is in APhoto version 1.0 for example?
Then I could disable the preview if I didn't need it. The program should remember this state.
So far this whole preview is weak.
It only shows the first page of the project, you cannot select other pages to preview, and there is no way to set the preview to 100% for small projects.
Maybe Serif should see how it is solved, for example in CorelDraw?
Generally, the entire Export panel should be modified, which has already been widely discussed on this forum. (I wonder if Serif will react to this somehow?)
In my opinion, version 2.0 is now worse than version 1.0

[cgartists]

Precisely @GRAFKOM - or even just a tick under current preview saying Preview enabled and that setting being remembered.

[v_kyr]

7 hours ago, GRAFKOM said:

With small projects, e.g. A4, the preview appears quickly, while with projects of 8x3 meters, the preview takes a long time to generate and prevents any change of parameters or selection of the format to png, jpg, pdf or other.

Have you looked if it is maybe executed as a subprocess (Task Manager, Process Viewer) or not? - It probably has to be executed by Serif as a background process (independent parallel processing) if it is not already done so.

[cgartists]

Hi @v_kyr - I checked and Affinity main app starts taking ~600% CPU so it is multithreaded but within main app process.

[v_kyr]

3 minutes ago, cgartists said:

Hi @v_kyr - I checked and Affinity main app starts taking ~600% CPU so it is multithreaded but within main app process.

Should then probably be executed as a parallel process, similar like the batch processing background option in APh.

[cgartists]

Just now, v_kyr said:

Should then probably be executed as a parallel process, similar like the batch processing background option in APh.

Yes you are probably right - I hope this changes, but for the now, when I actually don't need preview in ~90% cases an option to not load it by default would save me ton of time.

[GRAFKOM]

Maybe in tomorrow's Beta version something will move on this Export preview?

[northtrader]

+1000 on giving us the option to NOT have the preview automatically try and generate in the export window.  Please add the option to NOT have a preview ......