cgartists Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 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. Quote www.cgartists.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 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. PaulEC, Pšenda and ronnyb 3 Quote 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.6.4. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 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. PaulEC 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgartists Posted February 26, 2023 Author Share Posted February 26, 2023 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. Quote www.cgartists.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRAFKOM Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 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 and Ezbaze 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgartists Posted February 27, 2023 Author Share Posted February 27, 2023 Precisely @GRAFKOM - or even just a tick under current preview saying Preview enabled and that setting being remembered. Quote www.cgartists.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 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. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgartists Posted February 27, 2023 Author Share Posted February 27, 2023 Hi @v_kyr - I checked and Affinity main app starts taking ~600% CPU so it is multithreaded but within main app process. Quote www.cgartists.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 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. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgartists Posted February 27, 2023 Author Share Posted February 27, 2023 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. Quote www.cgartists.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRAFKOM Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Maybe in tomorrow's Beta version something will move on this Export preview? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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