Semi transparent borders around any Artboard

[Radosław]

There are semi transparent borders arround any artboard.
It's visible even after exporting to raster.

It's visible on non-rasterised pdf as white line. I have printer with margins, so I can't check if it's visible after printing.
I'm afraid that when I'm going to make printable things for clients, it's going to look like lack of extended layers to the bleed (which I've done.)

 

[Radosław]

Now when I export to non-rasterised pdf there are border on right side only.

[walt.farrell]

Have you increased the number of decimal places for px measurements (Preferences/Settings, User Interface) and verified that your Artboards are located on integer px X and Y values, and that their sizes are an integer number of px?

 

[Radosław]

While pdf is rasterised there are border white border on right side and bottom.

[Radosław]

35 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Have you increased the number of decimal places for px measurements (Preferences/Settings, User Interface) and verified that your Artboards are located on integer px X and Y values, and that their sizes are an integer number of px?

 

Hi. Thank you for the response. Yes and yes, artboard and even export frame are on integer and their sizes are integer too. Still visible.

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report @Radosław - are you able to attach a copy of your .afdesign file here so that I can investigate this further for you?

Many thanks in advance!

[Radosław]

5 hours ago, Dan C said:

Thanks for your report @Radosław - are you able to attach a copy of your .afdesign file here so that I can investigate this further for you?

Many thanks in advance!

It happens with all artboards in all projects. I guess you can recreate it too. If you don't have this problem please tell me how to do it.

Turning off anti-aliasing for whole artboard helps, but only for raster and it's rough.

It appears when you zoom in while viewing PDF in Internet Browser or PDF Reader.

Unwanted white line on right side.afdesign

 

[Radosław]

When exporting for example A4 from project without Artboards there are no line. (Raster too.)
So there is something wrong with Artboards or it is the same problem as with lines between joined shapes.

 

[Dan C]

 Thanks for providing this for me, I can see your Artboard and layer are on an integer Millimetre value, but not an integer Pixel value, which is what the Affinity apps use when exporting.

As Walt mentioned above, 

23 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Have you increased the number of decimal places for px measurements (Preferences/Settings, User Interface) and verified that your Artboards are located on integer px X and Y values, and that their sizes are an integer number of px?

These need to be Pixel (px) integer values.

I've adapted the file you've provided, does this now preview/export as expected please?

EDIT - apologies, it appears as though the file won't upload to the forums currently, please find this here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6u4ss1nglfuuw51/Unwanted white line on right side_F.afdesign?dl=0

[Radosław]

@Dan C Thank you very much, it works. 

Did you just changed project's units to px?

[Radosław]

I have one concern. When setting units back to millimeters, size of Artboard is slightly smaller because of difference in units.

Probably white line is going to be visible after printing because now an Artboard don't covers whole A4 format. I have to make slightly bigger Artboards and margins or bleed, so I can keep proportions in layout without slightly cutting something off and have integer px size of A4, which isn't same as A4 in millimeters.

[Radosław]

1 hour ago, Dan C said:

 Pixel value, which is what the Affinity apps use when exporting

@Dan C

 I think Affinity Designer and other apps should be able to export based on any units, especially millimeters for exporting vector.

Is there any chance that Serif are going to add this function in some future update?

[Radosław]

1 hour ago, Radosław said:

I have one concern. When setting units back to millimeters, size of Artboard is slightly smaller because of difference in units.

Probably white line is going to be visible after printing because now an Artboard don't covers whole A4 format. I have to make slightly bigger Artboards and margins or bleed, so I can keep proportions in layout without slightly cutting something off and have integer px size of A4, which isn't same as A4 in millimeters.

I've figured out that these white borders potentially don't matter when sending file to a Printing House. Because of bleed cutting marks and background in cut off area on end print file.

[Old Bruce]

2 hours ago, Radosław said:

I have one concern. When setting units back to millimeters, size of Artboard is slightly smaller because of difference in units.

Probably white line is going to be visible after printing because now an Artboard don't covers whole A4 format. I have to make slightly bigger Artboards and margins or bleed, so I can keep proportions in layout without slightly cutting something off and have integer px size of A4, which isn't same as A4 in millimeters.

It really depends on the PPI/DPI of the A4 Document. At 300 DPI this means the size difference is less than a tenth of a millimetre. If you use 72 DPI then it would be a bit larger than a third of a millimetre.

[lepr]

On 3/30/2023 at 8:02 PM, Radosław said:

I've figured out that these white borders potentially don't matter when sending file to a Printing House. Because of bleed cutting marks and background in cut off area on end print file.

Be aware that the crop marks will be spaced apart be an integer number of pixels, though, instead of the precise mm distance you might expect. Probably not a concern in the real world, but something to be aware of.