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I'm used to old Serif ways of thinking, so can anybody straighten me out on this Affinity Designer problem? I imported a wide jpg as a tracing template. SUbsequently, I changed the layout to a rough square, but I'm stuck with the wider format. I want to trim this to fit the actual graphic which only takes up half the "canvass".
I can't for the life of me see how Designer allows you to do this, although it seems such a basic task. With no objects selected, you can choose 'Document Setup' in the context toolbar and resize the document here. Another way of doing this is to use the Artboard tool, which you can click and drag to define your document size, and later edit this using the move tool.
Hope this helps. There is no "canvas". So, by inserting an image and " trimming" to that, what you are trying to do is change the page size to fit an image inside the page. That is the same as placing an image in Word, and then changing the page size to the image. So actually, this is not "such a basic task" as it seems.
Affinity Photo is "canvas" based and therefore, what you want to do is a simple and basic task in Photo. Enabling Lock Children on the Context toolbar freezes all the layers' sizes; disabling it allows scaling their sizes if you resize the artboard. Affinity Photo 1. The forthcoming Publisher will be the Affinity app which is analogous to InDesign. Yes, but Designer is "page" based.
So any reference to Canvas is rather confusing. Canvas normally refers to image area. I haven't noticed confusion arising from the limited use of the term canvas in Designer.
I think almost everybody would assume that the canvas is the drawing surface which is otherwise referred to as the page. In fact, it is not a basic task in Designer because in Designer, an image is placed on a page.
You actually need to size the page to fit the resized image. Very different to cropping an image to the canvas in Photo. This confusion between the two programs comes up time and time again on this forum, with many newbies struggling with the concept of an image in Designer being on a page.
Affinity Designer is document based. It doesn't matter if the document has zero, one, or a dozen artboards; the top level container object is always the document. If an object is contained by an artboard, the part inside the artboard's bounds is visible. If it is not contained by any artboard, it is fully visible.
Conceptually, the 'page' based model works well for some document uses like printing or maybe web page mockups but not for others. For example, some people use the area outside of any artboard or the canvas as an uncluttered scratch area for creating objects that may or may not eventually be moved into an artboard or onto the canvas.
I see so many people asking to trim the document here every time and I am one of them that uses trim documents a lot. Everytime I want to do this I use the arboard tool to crop and after that I move the contents of the arboard outside the artboard and remove the empty artboard.
Although that's working fine, everytime we have all the extra steps just to crop the document to a region, which is basic functionality I'd say. I'd say if so many people want this feature and it's practically already inside the artboard tool, why shouldn't there just be a document-crop-tool next to the artboard tool doing just this without the extra steps to have the artboard and remove the artboard everytime afterwards? It seems like such an easy thing to add to the software which stops all confusion for newer users and adds something really useful a lot of people use on a daily basis.
Just saying Great question. Because I don't like to change the layer-hierarchy and add an artboard eventhough I only have one canvas document if you like I'd like to work on, just to crop the document. But more importantly: because it gets exported to the SVG, adding an extra redundant layer on the output as well But that's another thing. Because I don't like to change the layer-hierarchy and add an artboard eventhough I only have one canvas document if you like I'd like to work on, just to crop the document, but more importantly: because it gets exported to the SVG, adding an extra redundant layer on the output as well:.
Is there any particular problem with having that redundant layer in the SVG export, or is it just something you don't like not that there is anything wrong with that? I don't work with exported SVG files very often, but it looks like it adds just a tiny number of bytes to the file. Yes, it's making files larger and therefore slower on internet. Especially for mobile browsers we want then to be as tiny as possible to minimize load-times.
But next to that, it's the wrong question. The question should be: why is it in the output in the first place. It just shouldn't be there. But by how much, in real world practical terms, is that one extra line of code actually going to slow anything down? I suspect it is there so an SVG file reopened in Affinity will retain the artboard, but for a definitive answer you will have to ask the developers about that.
Well, would you expect to place an image inside Microsoft Word crop that and then crop the page to that? What about other items on the page, or what about bleed. Do you include bleed in the cropped document, crop marks, or not? I just think it will lead to problems. It would be better to use the right tool for the job, i.
Designer is not an image editor. It just edits images sort of. For that matter, so does MS Word. Calling a page layout program document based is going to get very confusing in Publisher with a multi page document if there is a spread somewhere. Would the spread be a separate document, or a separate page? I guess it's years of working in the print trade. I use a page layout program to, er, lay out pages and an image editing program to, er, edit images.
Old fashioned, I guess. Presumably, everything would be part of the same document. Conceptually, you just need to think about which container something is in to avoid confusion, pretty much the same way you would do with the layer hierarchy within a document. Well, yeah, at least to some extent. Affinity probably won't support that, at least in the immediate future, but we might as well get used to the idea now because it is not going away.
And don't forget that all three apps will have a shared file format, so it'll remain possible to open the same Affinity document with Designer, Photo and Publisher.
It would be very confusing if what's a canvas in designer would suddenly be called something else in Publisher, wouldn't it? As for terminology: Adobe InDesign uses the name "pasteboard" for the area outside of the active page area.
I like the idea, but it's certainly a matter of taste. Apple uses "pasteboard" in its developer documents to refer to the buffer that users think of as the clipboard. Also what people are most familiar with. We routinely use metaphors like "folder" or "directory" as if they had a definite physical location in a file system but that is not accurate. Sometimes this stuff matters, sometimes not. I can't get too worked up about it -- at least for me it is whatever works best for the context.
Actually, although I would still prefer using Photo for that sort of thing, that's a clever solution. I suppose there is no reason why Serif could put in a simple Trim to Selection or Trim page option, As owenr suggested, as using the Artboard to achieve that works already.
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