schmiddi Posted August 20, 2018 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted August 20, 2018 Staff Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmiddi Posted August 20, 2018 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted August 20, 2018 Staff Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmiddi Posted August 20, 2018 Author Share Posted August 20, 2018 I see, thank you - so that's the way then, no extra feature necessary in this case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted August 20, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 20, 2018 moved to questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbal Posted May 29, 2020 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amdival Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 When I go to File > Document Setup the Dimensions field is grayed out and wont let me edit it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 7, 2022 Share 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. martins, Amdival, iuli 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, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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