Resize Document to Layer

[Steve from Arizona]

I'm using the Windows version of AD.  I have a document onto which I have pasted an image I've copied from elsewhere.  I now would like to select the image (layer, object, whatever you want to call it now) and resize the document to the image.  I know how to manually resize the document, but I don't see how to have it automatically resize to the selected layer - is that possible?  Alternatively, I thought if I could see the size of the layer then I could manually change the size of the document.  Not as good, but would work.  However, since my image (layer) is larger than the document, the Transform window shows the image size as the same size as the document, versus it's real size, which includes the portion of it that extends outside the document boundaries.

Thanks.

[firstdefence]

If you select the Layer that the image is on, Then use the Artboard Tool and in the context menu just below the main menu choose Size: Selection

[toltec]

You can't really crop a page to an image. In normal Document mode, Designer works like Quark Xpress. i.e a page layout program.

If you want to crop to an image, you need to use an Artboard. If desperate, you can convert the artboard back to a "cropped" document.

See this recent thread.

 

[toltec]

1 minute ago, firstdefence said:

If you select the Layer that the image is on, Then use the Artboard Tool and in the context menu just below the main menu choose Size: Selection

 

Damn, too slow again 

[firstdefence]

1 minute ago, toltec said:

Damn, too slow again 

Great minds think alike Padawan

[R C-R]

What I thought should work in Affinity Designer is to untick the "Clip to canvas" option oddly placed (to me) in the View > View Mode submenu. That does work, except at least on my Mac it leaves a faint outline of the edges of the original canvas visible that I have been unable to find a way to get rid of.

[walt.farrell]

18 minutes ago, R C-R said:

"Clip to canvas" option oddly placed (to me) in the View > View Mode submenu

It doesn't change the actual document, but only affects what displays. As such, it's affecting your View, and thus it's a View Mode

[firstdefence]

Heres something odd...

• Create a document, say 1000px x 1000px
• Create a shape say 1200px x 300px
• Select that shape and place it at x: 500px  y: 500px (just easier to see the effect)
• Go to File Document setup and resize the document to say 1300px x1300px
• Ok the resize
• The bounding box for the shape stays where the shape was originally located in the old size document.
• If you click off of the shape and click back on the bounding box is now around the shape, or if you reset the bounding box it snaps to the shapes new location.

 

 

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

It doesn't change the actual document, but only affects what displays. As such, it's affecting your View, and thus it's a View Mode

I do not see how that explains the outline around the canvas. It is there at any zoom level, does not change thickness, & remains regardless of what, if anything, is selected.

[firstdefence]

7 hours ago, R C-R said:

I do not see how that explains the outline around the canvas. It is there at any zoom level, does not change thickness, & remains regardless of what, if anything, is selected.

It isn't a margin is it?

What steps have you taken to produce this R C-R