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Copy and pasting artboards between documents changes stroke width of objects


kenfoo

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Affinity Designer version: 1.7.2.471

OS: Windows 10

Reproducible: Yes, but not with a new document.

Steps: Select artboard(s) to copy, select other document tab, paste artboard(s)

Video attached shows the issue, I copy and paste a number of artboards to a different document, and the strokes of objects (thousands I'd guess) changed. I checked whether it had something to do with the current stroke width in the second document, but setting it to 0 produces the same effect. However, while pasting these artboards to a new document produces the same effect, the stroke widths end up different. When I paste the artboards to a new document, the widths increased from 0.5pt to 1pt, in the video below they are 4.2pt. Though that also seems to vary depending on the object.

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Purely a guess: Check the DPI of the source and target document. If different, Designer seems to adjust the stroke thickness by the ratio of the two DPI values.

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16 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Purely a guess: Check the DPI of the source and target document. If different, Designer seems to adjust the stroke thickness by the ratio of the two DPI values.

I think you may be right! I can reproduce this, but only if the artboard is copied! Kenfoo, are your documents two different DPIs?

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Hmm no.. they're all 600 DPI in my case. But, now that I'm trying it again the problem doesn't happen anymore. I'll keep an eye out but I'm reaching the deadline so I don't have a lot of time to play around with it. These imported plans are also bogging down my Designer to unbearable levels so it's not something I enjoy debugging at the moment. ;)

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