Croping the whole Document

[vaclav]

+100 for adding simple-to-use cropping tool to AD. All I want is nothing more complicated than single action for

a] Area selection

b] Execution of  what's currently hidden in "Document Setup | Dimensions (values defined by the area selection)  + Document Setup | Anchor to Page".

[Kelteseth]

Hi all, I  recently switched from Photoshop to Affiny Designer and also wanted to express my strong support for this feature. Keep up the good work! :)

[R C-R]

I think there is no general consensus on what users want the AD crop tool to do. Personally, I find the vector crop tool useful & artboards a superior, interactive way to control what documents show. Like Fixx said, AD is not Photoshop. There is not much point in or need for cropping vectors as if they were raster images.

 

Since vector objects are defined geometrically instead of by pixel maps, destructively removing part of one won't appreciably change the amount of file space the document requires or how long it takes to render one on the screen -- in fact, in some cases that may increase very slightly if it requires more nodes to change its shape to conform to "crop" boundaries.

[spotter]

I just purchased Designer yesterday - totally blown away by what it does but I too was stumped for how to crop the canvas easily - I almost resorted to launching fireworks but I used the slice tool to crop an image export then I re-loaded it to export at the dimensions I wanted the final image to be at... very long winded from what I am used to - definitely +1 to some kind of canvas cropping capability.

[R C-R]

Hi spotter & welcome to the forums!

 

What exactly is it that you want to accomplish with a canvas cropping tool in Affinity Designer? If you are trying to reduce file size by cropping out parts of vector objects, shapes, image layers, or text -- basically, anything besides parts of pixel layers -- there will be very little reduction in the file size, unless maybe you are trying to crop out several thousand nodes of vector objects or thousands of text characters.

 

That is because only raster (bitmap) images are defined pixel by pixel -- everything else is defined by a set of properties. So for example, a 10,000 X 5,000 px rectangle vector shape requires the same file space as a 10 X 10 px one.

[ianbrodie]

R-C-R - from your answer about filesizes it feels like you don't quite understand what most people are trying to do when they're talking about wanting to crop an entire document.

 

Lots of people use AD to create images for the web. That's one of the basic settings for creating a document in AD. You'll notice a lot of people commenting on cropping mention they previously used Fireworks and Fireworks is indeed the "web design" version of PS. 

 

In this case documents will be exported in jpeg or png format and uploaded to the web. Any extraneous whitespace around an image will be there on the final image and totally mess up how it looks. For the web and exporting to png/jpeg you need to be able to set the image dimensions to precisely what you want them. it's not a matter of filesize, it'a a matter of unwanted whitespace round the image when you export it.

 

Now whether that ends up being called a crop or not, it's a feature that's used time and time again when you're creating images for the web. To have to use a workaround like selecting the components, copying and creating a new document and then exporting is not only painful when you have to do it with every document - it also means you now have an old version of the document with the whitespace you need to delete.

So whether this crop feature that people are looking for that works the same way as crop in most other apps is called crop or something else is less important. However it is a feature that's heavily used by people doing images for the web.

 

Ian

[R C-R]

Ian,

 

Whitespace in images for web pages should not be a problem for png files with transparency.

 

For JPEG's (or for PNG's with or without transparency, for GIF's, or just about any other web compatible format) you can use the Export Persona's slices feature. Together with the Transform panel, you can set the slice dimensions precisely, & you do not need to crop the image at all -- just create the slice or slices at the dimensions & position(s) you want, set the export options you want, & export the slice or slices.

[Fixx]

Yes, I feel slice tools and export persona should cover web image needs. Maybe they need some refinement?

[razorpig]

Five years and counting.....

Any update on the Crop Canvas/Artboard to Selection feature?

 

 

[Mr. Review]

Is there any updates on this?

[Mr. Review]

Is there any updates here?

It hurts to pay 50 bucks and can't do a simple crop!
Please help!

 

UPDATE:
I just mentioned that I have already asked this question 7 months ago.
I wish to receive an answer as my Christmas gift! haha

[GregoryCCB]

+1 for me.  Since there seems to be confusion about what is being requested, I want the same feature that Fireworks calls Trim Canvas and Illustrator calls "Fit to Artwork Bounds".  I just started using the AD trial as I need to dump Adobe, but can't switch without this 1-click feature.

[MD7]

People have been waiting over 7 years for this.

What the heck is the issue with getting this implemented?

[CarlEmail]

I can't believe this has not been implemented yet. I need this function practically every time I use Designer.

[Garth Laidlaw]

Just chiming in that we still need a basic crop tool - it is August 8 2023.

Not everyone is using this like illustrator, for some it is their preferred drawing / digital painting app, so we may need a diverse range of functionality.

Really don't know why it is difficult to implement this feature, it feels incredible elementary.

[Ryan Clarke]

Is there still nothing?

To crop a whole document I have to save the image out as a PNG import it as a separate image, crop it, copy it and then paste it to a new document.

Why is there no visual way of cropping the whole document size, that will then resize your document. Having to do it by typing in sizes into the document dialogue box provides no accuracy.

[Ziflin]

So tomorrow will be 10 years from the original request I believe.  Not much longer, and it'll be able to get its drivers license...

Please add support for this. For those making diagrams, etc. for web-based work we rarely know what a good initial document size is...