V Silly Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Hello, long time illustrator user but newbie affinity designer user. In illustrator when printing to an 8 1/2 x 11 printer I was able to move the art preview in the print preview dialog box so that it best fit my page. I do not seem to be able to do this any longer in Affinity Designer. I have tried to compensate by adjusting the art board size. I am getting very strange results where for example a document that fit on 2 pages was divided over 4 pages with 2 of the pages blank. Is there an easy way to adjust from which point in the artwork the program prints? In illustrator there was the page tool which allows you to place the print area whereever you want it in the document. I have not seen such a tool so far in Affinity Designer but maybe I am missing it? Thank you very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted December 15, 2018 Staff Share Posted December 15, 2018 Hi @V Silly, Welcome to the forums. Designer has only got a basic Print Dialogue. You have only got 3 options: We always recommend starting a new document the size of your paper and then copy/paste or place the project you want to print and arrange it accordingly. Thanks, Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Silly Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 OK, so I would need to make a new document that's the size of the printer page and then just move the actual art around however many times I need in order to print the whole thing? I guess that will work just as well... Thanks very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydfred Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Tiling has been added, but as far as I can see, no 'manual' tile - meaning dragging an x/y to print from that as upper-left of output. Grax33 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seizmic Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 I'm having a tiling issue where everything looks ready to go in preview, I click print, printer spools up..... and then nothing happens. Any ideas as to what's going on here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, Seizmic said: I'm having a tiling issue where everything looks ready to go in preview, I click print, printer spools up..... and then nothing happens. Any ideas as to what's going on here? Please provide details of your operating system, your printer make and model, and which Affinity app(s) you’re trying to print from. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seizmic Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, Alfred said: Please provide details of your operating system, your printer make and model, and which Affinity app(s) you’re trying to print from. I won't put you through all that! I just set up the tiling, exported to .pdf & printed from Preview. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Further an Affinity app screenshot of the tilings setup you were going to print might also be helpful here, in order to determine what might be going on. Seizmic 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, Seizmic said: I just set up the tiling, exported to .pdf & printed from Preview. You probably mean an Affinity print preview, or do you mean MacOS Preview.app? - If the later can show up the exported PDF correctly, then it's more a matter of your OS & printer driver. Seizmic 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seizmic Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 On 3/19/2022 at 1:50 PM, v_kyr said: You probably mean an Affinity print preview, or do you mean MacOS Preview.app? - If the later can show up the exported PDF correctly, then it's more a matter of your OS & printer driver. correct - Mac Preview app Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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