Designer 2.2.1, white borders appearing on edges at different zoom levels

[Diego Lopez]

Here is a screenshot of a recent document that I created just after updating to 2.2.1.  On the first screen shot you can see the strange white lines that appear at the bottom and right edges of the design. Upon zooming in, you can see on the second image that those lines are not part of the design, they just appear as artifacts when you are zooming out.  I believe this behavior was not present in the last version.  It is distracting and somewhat annoying. Hopefully it's something that can be addressed and fixed.

 

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[GarryP]

See also:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/113950-is-there-a-way-to-disable-the-white-border-around-the-canvasdocument/
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/185520-how-to-avoid-this-white-canvas-outline-in-designer/
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/59980-white-line-along-the-left-and-top-of-the-picture/

[Hangman]

Hi @Diego Lopez,

I can't be sure but your background looks like it is a raster image rather than a vector. If that is the case, make sure the pixel dimensions for the image use integer values when set to six decimal places and are the same size or larger than your document dimensions...

Also, check you have View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas enabled.

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report @Diego Lopez!

17 hours ago, Diego Lopez said:

On the first screen shot you can see the strange white lines that appear at the bottom and right edges of the design. Upon zooming in, you can see on the second image that those lines are not part of the design, they just appear as artifacts when you are zooming out.  I believe this behavior was not present in the last version. 

As above, the white line you're seeing is a known consequence of the Affinity apps using mipmaps to render the canvas quickly when viewing at different zoom levels.

If you view the document at 100% zoom, or export the file, you will find these lines do not appear.

Affinity has been using mipmaps since the apps were first created - however you may have not experienced this previously as they may only appear with certain canvas content, or at specific canvas sizes/zoom level combinations.

I hope this clears things up

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[Dan C]

24 minutes ago, Return said:

I see them all the time no matter what zoom level.

I believe this is a difference shown when using Affinity Publisher (in any Persona) whereby the edge of the Page is always drawn over your document - you can see this by increasing the layer size to be larger than the page size:

As Affinity Photo / Designer uses a Canvas rather than a page, this line is not drawn:

Except for in Affinity Designer when disabling  Clip to canvas, as the app then displays this line to indicate where the canvas ends and the pasteboard begins:

This is all expected behaviour for each Affinity app, as I understand it