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Hi JeanSJ :)

Sorry to hear you're having trouble!

12 hours ago, JeanSJ said:

Am getting a red overlay on a fielI wish to print and can<t seem to scale it or adjust it to fit

Are you using Windows by chance? This is a known bug that our developers are aware of and we're working to fix this asap. Apologies for any inconveniences in the meantime!

Please Note: I am now out of the office until Tuesday 2nd April on annual leave.

If you require urgent assistance, please create a new thread and a member of our team will be sure to assist asap.

Many thanks :)

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I’m using the Mac version of AP, the printer setup page preview will display a red overlay if the image size exceeds the paper size. Not sure why you can reduce print area, there is a “fit” option on my printer. You could also try scaling way down to test e.g. 5%. 

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13 hours ago, JeanSJ said:

I'm using Mac OSX Mojave

Thanks for confirming, could you please provide a screenshot of your Print dialog?

As BeauRX has mentioned, this overlay appears when your document is larger than your paper size, meaning you'll either need to scale the document or change the print type for the red overlay to disappear, indicating the document now 'fits' on the paper.

Please Note: I am now out of the office until Tuesday 2nd April on annual leave.

If you require urgent assistance, please create a new thread and a member of our team will be sure to assist asap.

Many thanks :)

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We have made fixes/improvements to this area (Print dialog isn't removing the red overlay on a scaled image) of the program in the latest beta release of Affinity Photo & Affinity Designer on Windows. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below. Once Affinity Publisher has been through a full beta process the change will be released in a future free 1.8.0 update to all customers.

The 1.8.0 beta builds are in links at the top of these beta forum posts

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8 hours ago, Can Not Print Worth a Damn said:

April 2020 and still no tutorial on how to understand the Affinity Photo Print Dialogue?

Since the print options & how they are organized varies depending on the printer & its installed driver software, & there are hundreds of different printers, it would not be practical to try to cover more than the basics. 

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Perhaps I did not explain myself well. I understand the difference between the various printer driver properties dialogues.  What I am asking is why is there no explanation of the print dialogue box presented by Affinity Photo when initiating the print function from within Affinity Photo.

Specifically:

What is the difference between Document and Selection in the Range option?

Where is a full explanation of Fit to Printable, Shrink to Printable and Scale? Scale is obvious, the other two options considerably less so.

And perhaps most puzzling, what are the VCR-like icons for back, forward and 1/1 that appear under the graphic illustration in the upper right corner, which by the way, appears the same regardless of which printer I have selected because this is a part of Affintiy Photo, not each available printer and it's printer driver.

I continue to find it odd that a company which has written and sold hard cover books to users as well as supplied online help files and seemingly scores of video tutorials has not, that I can find, supplied a simple yet complete explanation of the print dialogue or whatever you prefer to call what I am including below.  People do still print photos at home. Am I the only one puzzled by it all?

AFdialogue.jpg

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9 minutes ago, Can Not Print Worth a Damn said:

What is the difference between Document and Selection in the Range option?

Whether the complete document is printed, or only the selected layer(s).

14 minutes ago, Can Not Print Worth a Damn said:

Where is a full explanation of Fit to Printable, Shrink to Printable and Scale? Scale is obvious, the other two options considerably less so.

It should be in the Help, in the Print topic. Online link: https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Sharing/print.html

But that describes Actual Size, Scale to Fit, and Scale. You could report that as a Bug, in the appropriate Bug forum.

19 minutes ago, Can Not Print Worth a Damn said:

And perhaps most puzzling, what are the VCR-like icons for back, forward and 1/1 that appear under the graphic illustration in the upper right corner, which by the way, appears the same regardless of which printer I have selected because this is a part of Affintiy Photo, not each available printer and it's printer driver.

They are not usable or meaningful unless you're printing more than one page. If you are, they let you preview the additional pages.

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38 minutes ago, Can Not Print Worth a Damn said:

Where is a full explanation of Fit to Printable, Shrink to Printable and Scale? Scale is obvious, the other two options considerably less so.

1. If your canvas size is larger than your paper size then Fit to Printable will shrink it so that your canvas fits on the paper

2. If your canvas size is smaller than your paper size then then Fit to Printable will enlarge it so your canvas uses as much space as it can on the paper


3. If your canvas size is larger than your paper size then Shrink to Printable will shrink it so that your canvas fits on the paper

4. If your canvas size is smaller than your paper size then then Shrink to Printable will not (need to) do anything

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Thank you to both Carl and Walt.  It seems so simple but I'm one of those people that needs to understand.  I tried Fit to Print and Shrink to Print but didn't really see the difference visually in the dialogue.  

As to Walt's suggestion, I considered that but didn't see how to even option for printing individual layers. I'll look into both. thanks again.

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You're welcome.

-- 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 
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