I can't export a menu from Publisher to a PNG

[Bynah]

One of the pages stays small, like a thumbnail. I have tried everything I could think of and then some! Help would be so appreciated. thank you in advance.

[firstdefence]

You might be better off uploading the afpub file.

[Bynah]

okay, here I go, thanks

Oneonta Menu 2-26-24.afpub

[thomaso]

The image exports in page size to me (with the linked resources missing). – Maybe it helps to delete + replace the resource in the .afpub?

[Bynah]

I actually did that several times and even used a different designer file and the same thing happened!

[Bynah]

The same thing happens to me when I export it as a jpeg that one page is thumbnail size. If I try to drag it bigger, in Publisher, it snaps to,

normal size. but when I export it again, it is shrunken. I need help!

[Bynah]

Made a brand new Publisher file and pasted my designer files into it and the same thing happens. It must be with the drink page itself

but I can't see any difference in the settings in it.

[Bynah]

Here are the settings on the drink page, that is shrunken and then the salad page that is normal. both seem the same to me.

[thomaso]

7 hours ago, Bynah said:

Here are the settings on the drink page, that is shrunken (…)

There appears to be an issue with the .afdesign file itself: its document properties seem to differ massively (~420%) from those reported in APub's Resource Manager, telling huge original dimensions.

– What is the size & resolution of this specific artboard in AD (≠ document properties ??) ?
– Does it help to manually set its properties once more + "Save As…" with a different file name / or copy this artboard's content into one of the failure-free .afdesign files?

[Bynah]

This is not an artboard. I don't know how to use them. I only recently started to learn AD. I did wonder myself at the huge file in resource manager in AP.

I brought the drink page (the problem page) into Photo and in one view, see below, the size was massive. So I made it 8.5x11 inches again and saved it.

I don't know why in one of the screenshots below, the drink page on the menu file in AP says embedded. Is that because it is placed? All the others

were placed as well. I am really having problems, and need to get these to the people that are waiting for them. I appreciate any help I can get!

 

[Bynah]

It has said all along that the file is only 2.6mb, which is smaller than all the others.

[Bynah]

I selected everything on the page and made a new AD page and pasted it on there. I placed that on my AP menu and exported it and it Worked!

thank you for your suggestion, and all your help!

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Bynah said:

This is not an artboard. I don't know how to use them. I only recently started to learn AD. I did wonder myself at the huge file in resource manager in AP. (…)

It's hard to tell what caused the issue, maybe a glitch in the app with resulting in a corrupted resource in APub?
– Or, since you show the file in APhoto this time, maybe a manually, incidentally change:

Note, opposite to APub and AD, in APh changing the value for resolution (DPI) automatically changes the number of pixels (Size) just if the "Resample" checkbox is activated.

APub and AD don't have that simple checkbox and don't get size & resolution linked that way, even if they have the "Rescale" option selected.

 

[Bynah]

Oh! I wish I could understand all this better. I just fumble along!

I really appreciate your help. So you haven't switched yet to V2?

I have lots of questions about that.

[thomaso]

Possibly you could reduce the need to "fumble along" with the various Affinity file types if you create the menu layouts directly within APub and its AD persona. Visually the various resource files seem to contain text and 'simple' brush strokes only, both are available in APub, too.

I am still using Affinity V1 because of the macOS version (… for compatibility with some apps that don't work with newer operating systems).

[Bynah]

That is my issue too! I am still on Mojave because I don't feel like I can live without IPhoto and Dashboard!  I tried using Catalina as a VM, or using Cat. as the main OS

and using Mojave as a VM and it was all too complicated for me. I wonder what you think about this?

I will try what you are saying, I like the sound of it. I wonder what the brush selection is like. I will look now, thanks.

[Bynah]

I tried a couple of brushes with the pencil tool I can't figure out what that light grey fill is in around the stroke

[Bynah]

Oh, I figured it out. the fill was on and I turned it off. It's nice, simple.

[thomaso]

3 minutes ago, Bynah said:

I wonder what the brush selection is like.

It is quite the same in APub's persona, with vector brushes in the AD and pixel brushes in the APh persona.

For the use of fill & stroke there is no difference amongst the three apps – excepted:
• AD offers multiple strokes for an object in its Appearance Panel and
• In APh the Stroke Panel is accessible as pop-up in the Context Toolbar only.

13 minutes ago, Bynah said:

Catalina as a VM

As a VM in what way? – I installed V2 on an external HD with newer macOS but I just don't like to re-boot to toggle between apps. – In your setup, can you launch apps of both environments parallel?

[Bynah]

Yes you can. It is just like any other app. You have to use VM Fusion or something like that. I had it all worked out and installed, but there was

some glitch that stopped me in my tracks. So I just went back to using Mojave. I just got another computer, as mine is pretty beat up

and it came with Catalina on it. So I but V2 on it but haven't used it yet because I don't want to commit to it yet. Once you open a file

in V2 I understand you can't take it back to V1. One thing for sure I don't like about V2 is the new tool icons. They are senseless to me.

The old ones weren't broke, they didn't need fixing. They were clear what they were .