JuanL Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Affinity Designer is great just like Adobe Illustrator. I'm a new user of A.D. and I use Adobe Photoshop where you have "crop" feature for your canvas when you want to make a smaller canvas. I'm attaching a sml clip. Does A.D. have it somewhere ? Thank you Raskolnikov and Maximus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted November 21, 2014 Staff Share Posted November 21, 2014 Hi JuanL, Welcome to the forums. You can resize the canvas within Document Setup by selecting a different page preset or manually adjusting the width and height. We do have a Vector Crop Tool available on the left hand side menu, this is used to crop selected objects or groups of objects. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basementjack Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I could use this too - the Document setup dialog isn't visual, so we'd have to make small adjustments and do trial and error. Cropping an object isn't what we're after. For me, I wanted to output a PNG with no extra white space- I suppose I could do this by grouping everything on the canvas, then selecting it the Export->Layers area and making a slice from that group Yep that worked - but it would be great if the crop tool could also be used on the entire canvas as a way of changing the settings in the Document Setup Dialog. Thanks! Konspaul 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konspaul Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I'm also looking for this feature. Raskolnikov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codename Capri Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Why not simply use the Export Persona? When you create a slice there, then all visible layers will be mentioned. You don't have to merge/group them. And it's visual, too ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopper Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 I could also frequently use this. The export doesn't seem to let you crop and export unless I missed it. I ended up grouping all objects, then reducing the document size by trial and error until it was just right, then exporting. I'm used to doing it in far less steps. Any other solutions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 23, 2015 Staff Share Posted June 23, 2015 Hi dopper, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Select the layers or objects you want to be included, then go to File ▹ Export... and select Selection with (or without) background from the Export dropdown on the bottom of the Export dialog. The exported image will have the size of the objects you selected. dopper 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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