Export Persona automatically sizes

[Ninjag-O-G]

Hello, I'm currently trying to figure out how to stop the export persona from changing the size of my slices. I have an object set of odd dimensions, ex. 513x513, but when I create a slice from that object the slice's dimensions are 514x514. I originally thought that it was just affinity giving the border a little but of cushion, but setting the rectangle size for 512x512 keeps it at 512x512. If there's a way to prevent this I'd love to know it, as I need very specific dimensions and I'm exporting dozens of these while having to change the dimensions manually.

[walt.farrell]

It is very likely that your object location is not on an integer pixel boundary (x or y coordinate, in the Transform studio, will show as, e.g., 541.2px rather than 541px or 542px). That causes Affinity to round the size up to account for the fractional pixel.

[Ninjag-O-G]

I don't think that's it, I have "move by whole pixels" selected and none of the transform integers have decimals.

[R C-R]

25 minutes ago, WatcherMagic said:

I don't think that's it, I have "move by whole pixels" selected and none of the transform integers have decimals.

In Preferences > User Interface, you can set the "Decimal Places for Unit Types." This affects the display but not the internal precision of values. So make sure that is set to something greater than zero for pixels to make sure the numbers really are integers.

Also, "Move by whole pixels" does exactly that, meaning if something is at 10.5 px it will force it to move by whole pixels to 9.5, 11.5, etc. So instead, make sure "Force Pixel Alignment" is set but not "Move by whole pixels" if you want or need to adjust the position of any pre-existing item on the canvas.

[Ninjag-O-G]

On 8/27/2018 at 5:47 PM, R C-R said:

In Preferences > User Interface, you can set the "Decimal Places for Unit Types." This affects the display but not the internal precision of values. So make sure that is set to something greater than zero for pixels to make sure the numbers really are integers.

Also, "Move by whole pixels" does exactly that, meaning if something is at 10.5 px it will force it to move by whole pixels to 9.5, 11.5, etc. So instead, make sure "Force Pixel Alignment" is set but not "Move by whole pixels" if you want or need to adjust the position of any pre-existing item on the canvas.

Decimal Places for Unit Types is already set to one; I tried setting it to two and resetting it with no effect. But thank you for that information, that helps

[walt.farrell]

You may need to share a file that demonstrates the issue, if the ideas mentioned so far haven't helped.

[Ninjag-O-G]

Here you are; fyi I've gone ahead and deleted and re-created a lot of objects in experimentation, right now this is basically just a grid of boxes

DW_Heightmap.afdesign

[walt.farrell]

On 8/30/2018 at 6:05 PM, WatcherMagic said:

Here you are; fyi I've gone ahead and deleted and re-created a lot of objects in experimentation, right now this is basically just a grid of boxes

DW_Heightmap.afdesign

Thanks. Looking at your box in the upper-left quadrant, I see the following in the Transform panel:

The box in the lower-left is also on a .5px boundary.

Trying to export your slice via the Export Persona, I see:

I moved the group so it's on an integer pixel boundary:

The Export Persona then shows just what you want it to show:

 

[Ninjag-O-G]

On 9/2/2018 at 1:30 PM, walt.farrell said:

Thanks. Looking at your box in the upper-left quadrant, I see the following in the Transform panel:

The box in the lower-left is also on a .5px boundary.

Trying to export your slice via the Export Persona, I see:

I moved the group so it's on an integer pixel boundary:

The Export Persona then shows just what you want it to show:

 

Oh, I see! I must have misunderstood your post from before as well XP Thanks a bunch!