Is it possible to turn off anti-aliasing when exporting images in Designer?

[ꜱᴩʀɪᴛᴇ➀]

I'm trying to export a small image without blurring from anti-aliasing. Is there a way to disable it in Designer? Or if not, any other way to do it besides manually retouching the item using Pixel view all the time? (I'm dealing with a lot of images here)

[Gabe]

Hi sprite~1,

 

The anti-alias cannot be disabled, however, this should not create any issues with small images. Can you please attach the .afdesign file so we can have a look?

 

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[firstdefence]

Have you tried changing the resampled to Lanzos 3

 

 

[ꜱᴩʀɪᴛᴇ➀]

Oh no, I'm not saying it's causing issues, I just want to make the job easier is all. For example, I have this:

 

 

But when I export it to a 64x64 PNG, it looks like this which has anti-aliasing:

 

 

But I want it to export without anti-aliasing like this:

 

[MEB]

Hi sprite~1,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

Select all the objects you want aliased, click the cog icon in the Layers panel and adjust the Coverage Map as you see fit. See example below (the bottom one has the coverage map adjusted).

 

 

 

[ꜱᴩʀɪᴛᴇ➀]

Thank you, that seems to do the trick! But how do I make it work with a whole group? I see that I can only get it to work if I select each individual piece and adjust them one by one.

[MEB]

Select all pieces dragging a marquee around all of them then adjust the coverage map. It will change them all at once.

[ꜱᴩʀɪᴛᴇ➀]

Well that works, thanks! I highlighted all the layers in the layers panel.

[cholasimmons]

How do I get to show 1 pixel as a really huge block?

Setting DPI even to 1 in the Document Setup didn't achieve what I'm looking for. Working with a smaller Document size kind of helps but even with the above coverage map settings I still get a slight undesired anti-alias, maybe due to the export format (PNG 24)

 

You guys at Affinity are simply outstanding!

[Rodrigo Legendre]

On 3/23/2018 at 7:15 AM, MEB said:

Select all the objects you want aliased, click the cog icon in the Layers panel and adjust the Coverage Map as you see fit. See example below (the bottom one has the coverage map adjusted).

Sorry for kinda necro, but...

@MEB That technique does not work with strokes not set to align centre. Either inside or outside result in anti-alias. 

Noticed this in pixel-view inside the app, and then tested if the export file was affected. It is. (note the .png on the file of the screenshot, with original in another tab).

Possibly a bug?

 

In my case, I am dealing with a single stroke and it's not too complicated to adjust the size of the graphic down to compensate the half offset from centre-alignment. But I think this will be a major inconvenience to workaround on multi-stroke stuff.

[Omega]

I dunno if this helps but when using the export function anti-alias does not work, so when saving .gifs or .pngs there is no anti-aliasing, this was a problem for me as I needed it when using images that required transparent backgrounds, thankfully the anti-aliasing works as expected in export persona. 

This must be a bug but it solves this problem if you want anti-aliasing off quickly. 

Not ideal and may not work for all but maybe worth a try. 

[dennisqdw]

Thanx for the info on the coverage map. That will be a big help for me going forward. Never even thought it was an option.