Uncle Mez Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 (edited) Well i'm a bit surprised that some issues are coming back to the surface but maybe it's on my side ! 1- Have noticed my exports get blurry every time : tried to design in A3 then export in A4 then A5 size (PNG: is my mostly used - TIFF or PDF) which was working like a charm in previous release but now they get blurry 2- Went to my Affinity Preferences and now i see : Display (OpenGL, OpenGL Basic, Software) .... Never touched this before so i would like to know if changing one of this would fix the issue and what each one is or supposed to do. 3- What is Dither gradient ? Would it help ? in what conditions ? Just remember that the blurriness disappeared with one of the updates (can't recall which one) but now it's back ! So, Your help and support would be appreciated helping me fix this and get back on the road. Edited December 2, 2018 by Uncle Mez Never be the Same Again ! ---Dell Optiplex 5090 SFFIntel Core i5-10500T @2.30GHz with 12GiB 2666MHz DDR4Intel UHD Graphics 630 for 10th Generation M.2 2280, 512 GB, PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40 SSDWindows 11 Pro x64 22H2 + LibreOffice 7.5.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 3, 2018 Staff Share Posted December 3, 2018 Hi Uncle Mez, 1. Can you please attach a sample file where exporting to PNG gives different results that those you got from previous version/build? As far as I now there wasn't changes here. 2. No, changing these shouldn't have any effect on PNG export (unless there's some bug). 3. Dither gradients adds a small amount of noise to disguise banding when rendering gradients on screen so they look smoother (this setting only affects screen rendering - all exported gradients are dithered no matter what setting you choose. There's however ways to "hack/workaround" the dithering in case you do not want it on the exported files). A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Mez Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 On 12/3/2018 at 3:38 PM, MEB said: Hi Uncle Mez, 1. Can you please attach a sample file where exporting to PNG gives different results that those you got from previous version/build? As far as I now there wasn't changes here. 2. No, changing these shouldn't have any effect on PNG export8unless there's some bug). 3. Dither gradients adds a small amount of noise to disguise banding when rendering gradients on screen so they look smoother (this setting only affects screen rendering - all exported gradients are dithered no matter what you choose. There's however ways to "hack/workaround" the dithering in case you do not want it on the exported files). Hello @MEB sorry for this late reply but we have massive power outage in the town where i live, so sometime i'm okay and sometimes i'm just not. Please find attached the file i'm referring to. Please may you have better results than i do, please share the tips so that i can adjust on my side. Blessings ! New Uncle Mez FB.afdesign Never be the Same Again ! ---Dell Optiplex 5090 SFFIntel Core i5-10500T @2.30GHz with 12GiB 2666MHz DDR4Intel UHD Graphics 630 for 10th Generation M.2 2280, 512 GB, PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40 SSDWindows 11 Pro x64 22H2 + LibreOffice 7.5.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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