Designer 2 - white lines between different-color objects

[Bmuse]

Hi all,

I know this is a longtime issue with Affinity. But I have some issues that the "usual" workarounds don't solve.

I'm working with some pixel-style art, from a graphics service. Some of the graphics were built with individual square objects, for a true 8-bit look.

I'm attaching examples showing a couple of 8-bit-style ghosts. As you can see, when imported into Designer, they have the infamous line-gaps around every individual object. Because the ghosts are on a blue background in my design, the gaps show up as a light-blue grid.

I'm aware that I can duplicate a ghost and give the back one a stroke to fill in those lines. But if I match the stroke color to the light blue, for example, the gray and black areas have light blue gridlines.

I do have precise clipping turned on. I didn't clip/slice these. Affinity is just importing them with this separation between every object.

And to clarify, the attached screencap is from the exported PNG. They are clearly visible in final exported files, no matter what format.

(As an aside -- I realize this might make them look even more bitmappy. But, other imported graphics that use larger blocks of solid color don't have this problem, so there would be significant inconsistency.)

Aside from manually drawing rectangles behind every area of every graphic in a very complex image -- is there ANYTHING that can address this?

Thanks for any insight or advice...

B

[firstdefence]

Where did you get the ghost graphics from?

 

[NotMyFault]

Did you check pixel alignment? Start position, width/height etc.

As you export as raster/bitmap: add a levels adjustment, choose alpha, drag white level to 0. apply on all layers (e.g. grouped) except background