Artboard width and height off by 1 px

[pantuflas]

1. Create or duplicate an artboard 
2. Click Export Persona 

3. Look at W and H in Transform > Both are wrong

4. Go back to Designer Persona > Both are correct

5. Again, click Export Persona > Both are still wrong

6. All you can do is manually correcting W and H for every single artboard every time you export one or more artboards

 

[Hangman]

Hi @pantuflas and welcome to the forums,

Set your Artboard X and Y values to integers rather than decimal values and see if that helps...

[pantuflas]

11 minutes ago, Hangman said:

Hi @pantuflas and welcome to the forums,

Set your Artboard X and Y values to integers rather than decimal values and see if that helps...

Just tried that and did not help.
Well, this particular artboard's x and y were already set to 0 in Designer Persona.
However when I switch to Export Persona, the same artboard's x, y, width and height all 4 of them change out of nowhere. 
This forces me to again, as I said before, correct its width and height every time I export.
Definitely a bug. I've had this problem for a long time. I just haven't had the chance to actually contact the support.
 

[Hangman]

Are you able to upload your Designer file so we can take a look at what might be going on?

[pantuflas]

25 minutes ago, Hangman said:

Are you able to upload your Designer file so we can take a look at what might be going on?

Here you go.
Try the artboard named "THIS".

THIS.afdesign

[Hangman]

Hi @pantuflas,

Go to Preferences > User Interface > Pixels and change the decimal places to 6.

You will then see that all your X coordinates have decimal values, change these X values to Integers and all your Artboards will then appears as 512 px x 1024 px in the export Persona.

[pantuflas]

4 minutes ago, Hangman said:

Hi @pantuflas,

Go to Preferences > User Interface > Pixels and change the decimal places to 6.

You will then see that all your X coordinates have decimal values, change these X values to Integers and all your Artboards will then appears as 512 px x 1024 px in the export Persona.

Where is Preferences tab?? I cannot find it.

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, pantuflas said:

Try the artboard named "THIS".

It does not have an integer X coordinate:

Just now, pantuflas said:

Where is Preferences tab?? I cannot find it.

If you're using V2, it is now Settings. On Windows, it's in the Edit menu (or Ctrl+, by default). On macOS it's in the application menu (e.g., Designer 2, or Cmd+, by default).

[pantuflas]

Ok I just did what you told me to do (Preferences > User Interface > Pixels and change the decimal places to 6) but it still doesn't work.

[pantuflas]

Ah wait. It looks like newly created artboards are good. The ones I already had in the project seem to be still "messed up".
If it's good from now on, I'm good.

[walt.farrell]

3 minutes ago, pantuflas said:

Ok I just did what you told me to do (Preferences > User Interface > Pixels and change the decimal places to 6) but it still doesn't work.

That displays more decimal places, and allows you to see that something is not positioned or sized correctly. It is only a display setting.

You still need to fix that Artboard so it has an integer X position. Just select the Artboard, and edit the X coordinate in the Transform panel and set it to an integer amount. Then recheck the other Artboards, too.

[pantuflas]

I think you have to come up with an actual fix.
Your suggested fix doesn't work.
I always duplicate artboards by dragging. So then x or y values become decimal.
I just duplicated an artboard by dragging and its x became 5568.051828 px.
Then I switched to Export Persona and as expected, w and h became 513x1024 instead of 512x1024.
This happens even after I did what you told me to do.

[pantuflas]

5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

That displays more decimal places, and allows you to see that something is not positioned or sized correctly. It is only a display setting.

You still need to fix that Artboard so it has an integer X position. Just select the Artboard, and edit the X coordinate in the Transform panel and set it to an integer amount. Then recheck the other Artboards, too.

Wait so you do not plan on fixing this? Are we expected to modify x or y values each time we use Export Persona? For every artboard in the project? This is madness!
This really is a bug and I hope to see a fix soon.
 

[NotMyFault]

You can activate snapping and force pixel alignment. This solves the issue.

 

[NotMyFault]

5 minutes ago, pantuflas said:

Wait so you do not plan on fixing this?

All answers you received are from forum users, not from Affinity staff. We don’t have any power to change the App.

Users may post feedback or feature request in the appropriate section of the forum. 
You probably can find older request covering this topic and add your vote there.

[pantuflas]

2 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

You can activate snapping and force pixel alignment. This solves the issue.

 

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[NotMyFault]

And deactivate „move by whole pixels“.

[pantuflas]

1 minute ago, NotMyFault said:

All answers you received are from forum users, not from Affinity staff. We don’t have any power to change the App.

Users may post feedback or feature request in the appropriate section of the forum. 
You probably can find older request covering this topic and add your vote there.

Ohh I thought they were all affinity employees... I see. Thanks for letting me know.

[pantuflas2]

4 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

And deactivate „move by whole pixels“.

Tried that and that didn't really do anything. 
Still the same.

[walt.farrell]

37 minutes ago, pantuflas said:

I always duplicate artboards by dragging. So then x or y values become decimal.

That can be solved by enabling Snapping, with Force Pixel Alignment set to on, and Move by Whole Pixels set to off, and making sure that you duplicate using the Ctrl key (Windows) or Cmd key (Mac). Don't use the Alt/Opt key, which will also duplicate but will ignore snapping.

[pantuflas2]

7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

That can be solved by enabling Snapping, with Force Pixel Alignment set to on, and Move by Whole Pixels set to off, and making sure that you duplicate using the Ctrl key (Windows) or Cmd key (Mac). Don't use the Alt/Opt key, which will also duplicate but will ignore snapping.

Ok this works. Duplicating with Cmd key makes it snap. Thanks a lot!

[walt.farrell]

I'm curious: why did you create a second forum account?

[pantuflas2]

12 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm curious: why did you create a second forum account?

It looks like they allow 10 comments per day.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, pantuflas2 said:

It looks like they allow 10 comments per day.

Thanks, Yes, that might be a limit they apply to very new users. Generally, at that point, I think they expect you to wait until the next day, not create a new account