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Fractional pixels

Fractional pixels

- [Instructor] When you're designing for either web browsers or high DPI applications, there's this issue known as fractional pixels that can get in your way and it's not unique to XD. It occurs also traditionally in Illustrator, Photoshop, for other Adobe products that have had the same problem through the years. What happens is as you're designing, if you place an object or resize an object to a fractional pixel, so something less than one pixel in size, it'll look okay in the design application but when you export that content to the web or to a native application, the web for example, is going to round up to a whole pixel. So if you have something that's a fraction of the pixel it ends up looking just slightly fuzzy and it can be quite frustrating to deal with. XD has now resolved that issue within the application so that you won't bump into it going forward. This is one of those situations where you'll want to probably, if you care, look at some of your older designs and manually…

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