Export preview?

[Martin Taylor]

I know that AD has no export preview capability as yet.  By the look of the tutorials, AP doesn't have any preview feature either.  Can someone confirm either way please?

[Chris_K]

Hi Martin

 

AP and AD have the same export capabilities, so the export in one is the same as the other. The export persona is sort of a preview of the export, and this should become more apparent with future updates of the app

 

Cheers :)

[TonyB]

The export persona in Photo is the same as Designer so no it doesn't show compression yet but it can show a pixel preview of the rendered result.

[Martin Taylor]

Thanks, Chris and Tony.  I'm not sure what is meant by "a pixel preview of the rendered result", so I'll need to try that out.  Perhaps I'm wrong to treat it as important, but for me a realistic preview of the finished export is critical to the size / quality trade-off.

[MEB]

Hi Martin Taylor,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

By pixel preview TonyB means you can render the current view in Export Persona as pixels rather than as vectors. Check the icons (Pixel View Mode) on the middle in the top of the interface.

What you can't preview yet is the rendering of the slices with the settings you defined for them. This means there's currently no way check the quality of a JPG with compression applied or how a PNG-8 will look with a limited colour palette. This will be implemented in a future version.

[Martin Taylor]

... there's currently no way check the quality of a JPG with compression applied or how a PNG-8 will look with a limited colour palette. This will be implemented in a future version.

 

OK, I'll wait until then before trying out AP (and AD)