Canvas: "export as image" tiles overlap

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Steps to reproduce

Create a canvas, add images and embed noted. Connect them with with arrows. Make the canvas really big (>16.000 px on x-axis)

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y]

Expected result

Cleanly rendered image, everything in place like in the app.

Actual result

tiles are in wrong order, overlapp each other (see screenshot).

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.5.11
Installer version: v1.5.8
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 22.6.0: Mon Feb 19 19:48:53 PST 2024; root:xnu-8796.141.3.704.6~1/RELEASE_X86_64 22.6.0
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

Additional information

Untitled
Untitled16284Ă—2349 1.59 MB

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experiencing similar issue: Glitch and Misalignment of “Export as image” in Canvas;
in my current environment, this result is consistent on multiple attempts:

output from “Export as image”

AMiTV (Structural Designs)
AMiTV (Structural Designs)1920Ă—721 43.9 KB

direct screenshot

image
image1920Ă—759 55.1 KB

debug info

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.7
Installer version: v1.6.7
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:24:16 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 24.3.0
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: Primary v2.10.0
Snippets enabled: 1
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 21
Plugins enabled: 14
1: Link Favicons v1.8.4
2: Copy Block Link v1.0.4
3: Smart Typography v1.0.18
4: Style Settings v1.0.9
5: Auto Link Title v1.5.5
6: Simple CanvaSearch v1.0.0
7: Canvas Card Background Remover v0.1.4
8: Canvas Send to Back v0.0.4
9: Outliner v4.8.1
10: Settings Search v1.3.10
11: Optimize Canvas Connections v1.0.0
12: Creases v0.7.0
13: Canvas Performance Patch v1.0.0
14: Find orphaned files and broken links v1.10.1

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Custom theme and snippets: for cosmetic issues, please first try updating your theme and disabling your snippets. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community theme and snippets.
Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.

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I too am experiencing the same problem on two different installations of Obsidian, one Windows 10, the other Windows 11.

I have reverted to the default theme and disabled community plugins/snippets, to no avail.

I have also progressively removed elements from my canvas in case the tiling/glitch issue was being caused by a rogue image, again, without success.

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.7
Installer version: v1.5.12
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.22631
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: dark
Community theme: Obsidian Nord v0.2.0

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5

are you using multiple monitors too?

6

The same problem from the first launch of Canvas.
Because of this problem I can’t export my canvases as images all this time.

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.8.10
	Installer version: v1.6.7
	Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
	Login status: not logged in
	Language: en
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: dark
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 2
	Restricted mode: off
	Plugins installed: 1
	Plugins enabled: 1
		1: Dataview v0.5.67

For me, this deformation occurs regardless of the number of monitors used.

Related:

Possible workarounds?:

7

can you clarify? “first” since what or when?

8

By the launch of Canvas, I mean the first launch (release) of Canvas as a new feature of Obsidian.
According to the roadmap, this will happen in December 2022 (Obsidian 1.1.0 Desktop (Early access) - Obsidian).