Nicolò Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Hi, I am designing some stickers for a car livery. I placed a render of the car in Affinity Designer, scaled it with the Measure Tool and now I have all of the stickers on the car with the correct size in mm. I need to have the stickers cut by a copy shop which uses Illustrator and I would like to copy all of my stickers into a file and send it to them in the correct size. The issue I have is that whenever I export a the PDF from Affinity and open it in Illustrator, none of the sizes are correct. Is there a way to have Illustrator keep the exact scaling from Affinity Designer? Thanks for any help anyone can offer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 I don't have designer but if I draw some shapes in photo with the document dpi set to 96 then the sizes are pretty good eg 1080x580mm becomes 1080.000944 x 579.998417 mm Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolò Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 Maybe I am missing something, but I have a 150mm high text in Designer turning into 95mm in Illustrator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Nicolò said: Maybe I am missing something, but I have a 150mm high text in Designer turning into 95mm in Illustrator. Are you using 96 DPI as David suggested? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 I get 95.997889 mm if the document is 150dpi Try the attached, look at the 0 in the ttext as curves, it's 150.001111 mm here dimns96.pdf Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolò Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 I tried David in Яuislip's file and also designed a similar test. They both work. However, my car livery file always loses some mm. Any idea why? Also, I tried copying a text from the car livery document to another blank document and the dimensions are also changing within Affinity Designer. It is an issue of the Measure Tool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 8 minutes ago, Nicolò said: Any idea why? Again, what DPI is it using? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolò Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 I've set 96 on everything walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted July 3, 2023 Staff Share Posted July 3, 2023 @Nicolò Are you able to DM me a copy or download link to your file so I can take a look? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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