schmiddi Posted August 20, 2018 Posted August 20, 2018 I could not find an easy way to change the canvas size (meaning document size) in Affinity Designer Desktop (Windows) v1.6.4.104. My suggestion is to get the document size from selected items or alternatively a seperate tool which allows resizing by drag&drop. juby 1 Quote
Staff Gabe Posted August 20, 2018 Staff Posted August 20, 2018 Hi @schmiddi, Welcome to the forums. You can change the canvas size by going to Document > Resize Canvas. Thanks, Gabe. juby 1 Quote
schmiddi Posted August 20, 2018 Author Posted August 20, 2018 Hi @GabrielM, thank you for your fast reply! I put a snippet of my screen below, it seems either I am unable to find it or there is no menu item "Document" - I can only find "File > Document Setup.." and there I can set the dimensions, however this is not a convenient way to adjust the document size. Best regards, Christian Quote
Staff Gabe Posted August 20, 2018 Staff Posted August 20, 2018 Oh. Designer. My bad. I was thinking of Photo. You can insert an artboard (the second tool from the left toolbar ) the size of your document, and resize the artboard while using the move tool juby 1 Quote
schmiddi Posted August 20, 2018 Author Posted August 20, 2018 I see, thank you - so that's the way then, no extra feature necessary in this case Quote
Xbal Posted May 29, 2020 Posted May 29, 2020 Hello, I don't know whether this is still current but you can change the canvas size in File -> Document Setup -> Dimensions. You just have to take care about whether or not you want to rescale the object already on the canvas: if yes choose rescale if not then anchor to page I hope this helped! Quote
Amdival Posted April 7, 2022 Posted April 7, 2022 When I go to File > Document Setup the Dimensions field is grayed out and wont let me edit it. Quote
walt.farrell Posted April 7, 2022 Posted April 7, 2022 4 minutes ago, Amdival said: When I go to File > Document Setup the Dimensions field is grayed out and wont let me edit it. You probably have a document containing Artboards. You can think of each Artboard as kind of its own mini-document, in that each can have its own size. Therefore, setting an overall document size is no longer meaningful once you have an Artboard. To change the size of an Artboard, you can select it in the Layers panel, and with the Move Tool active you can change the Artboard's size in the Transform panel. iuli, martins, Amdival and 1 other 3 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4
tombro Posted January 27 Posted January 27 It's worth pointing out that (on the current latest mac version 2.5.7 at least) there is no padlock to indicate the aspect ratio is locked. This caused me quite a lot of confusion until I clicked on the empty space between the width and the height boxes became the traditional unlinked chain symbol. Quote
GarryP Posted January 27 Posted January 27 18 minutes ago, tombro said: there is no padlock to indicate the aspect ratio is locked. The ‘linked’ icon is there on your first screen-grab (it’s set to link, or preserve aspect ratio) but it’s very difficult to see, and the icon is a representation of a chain now (from V2 I think) rather than a representation of a padlock. This contrast issue has been brought up elsewhere in the forums quite a lot. Quote
tombro Posted January 27 Posted January 27 1 minute ago, GarryP said: The ‘linked’ icon is there on your first screen-grab (it’s set to link, or preserve aspect ratio) but it’s very difficult to see, and the icon is a representation of a chain now (from V2 I think) rather than a representation of a padlock. This contrast issue has been brought up elsewhere in the forums quite a lot. Now you point it out, I can see it! I guess they've overlooked it because everyone seems to use dark themes these days. Quote
GarryP Posted January 27 Posted January 27 The icon is much easier to see in the Windows version, even with the Light UI Style enabled, so it’s more of a macOS-only problem. This example thread shows various examples: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/186973-invisible-or-nearly-invisible-icons-in-light-mode-in-21/ If you follow that thread you will get a notification if something happens with the issue. (That threads currently has eight bug tickets added to it so you can get some idea of the scope of the issue.) Quote
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