cutmastercnc Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 When I export a drawing to SVG it more than doubles it's size when I look at it in other programs (inkscape, sheetcam). I have changed every thing I can find to inches. Can some one direct me to what I am doing wrong? test1.afdesign test1.svg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutmastercnc Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 I guess no one supports this product. My post has been up 2 days and no responce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 It's the week after Christmas--likely most of Serif is on holiday. And you posted int he Tutorials section, not the bug section. That likely doesn't help. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superhaschi Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 I think you have to unchecking Set ViewBox-Button as described here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/13473-svg-export-an-blender-3d/?p=59495 test1_superhaschi.svg Quote MacOS Big Sur AD + AP + APub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 For absolute length units, Inkscape and other programs use the CSS defined value of 96 pixels per inch. In the Document Setup dialog you currently have the 'DPI' value set to 300; changing this to 96 (and allowing objects to rescale) will give you an SVG document whose physical size displays in Inkscape as 12.8" x 8.5". Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutmastercnc Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 Thanks, I was able to set it to 90 DPI and get to within .02 of actual size. This is not good enough for what I wanted the program for in my cnc work. How can I move this to bugs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 It isn't a bug. You have a stroke applied to the bounding rectangle, and the values in the Transform panel intentionally disregard the stroke weight. If you change the stroke alignment to 'Inside' and set the 'DPI' value to 96, the dimensions reported by Inkscape are 1152.001 x 767.999 pixels; when exported with a 'DPI' value of 90, it opens in Inkscape at exactly 1080 x 720 pixels or 12 x 8 inches. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutmastercnc Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 Thanks alot. It worked. Any reason why 90 instead of 96? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Thanks alot. It worked. You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback. :) Any reason why 90 instead of 96? I dunno. A bug in Inkscape, perhaps? :unsure: Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 I think InkScape looks at 72 pp. But it's been a while since I really looked. Image resolution in the document set-up should really only apply to non-vector effects. That's what other applications do and it doesn't muck up the document size. I set up a page in XDP to 8" x 12" and exported. It had a simple rectangle sized to the page and some outlined text. When InkScape opened it, it reported 72 dpi. When the units were switched to inches, it reported the page size properly: When the same XDP-generated SBG file was opened in AD, AD also reported the page size properly: If SVG export doesn't do the same, no-brainer export as XDP and AI and InkScape--if one needs trial and error and/or a calculator--then its a bug. If it isn't technically a bug and is as designed, then whomever designed it this way needs to rethink the whys and wherefores of their decision making. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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