MartinMHC

@h_d Thanks for the hint - I've found this video that shows the exact colour issue and gave a workaround - to convert the image from CMYK to RGB ; This looks like what I need but I don't know how the original transition (to CMYK) occurred. Anyway. Thank you.

@h_d How would I change the colour format? All the format's I've seen on the GUI are changed to RGBHex (that's what I'm used to working with) . It certainly looks similar the issue your images show . I have changed the visible colour markers (RGB / CMYK etc.) to CMYK and changed it to C=100% M = 100% Y = 0 K = 0 (which apparently is blue) but that still only shows the same er... incorrect colour on the image.

I have an .afphoto file I am working on, with text. The text should be True Blue (0,0,255,255 RGBA ; 00-00-FF-FF Hex) but for some reason the text refuses to go true blue, instead being a sloppy midrange colour. Core Image: https://ibb.co/zVtQNgL4 (Note the forum image upload doesn't work) You can see the image claims the text is blue but that clearly isn;t the case. THis is the same text, copy and pasted on to a new image, and it shows it's perfectly blue; https://ibb.co/995p7YZb So, How do I get the original .afphoto file to behave like the basic flat file on image two? This has only happened since the 2.6.3 update and I'm not aware of making ANY changes that would effect this. Help. Further, pasting the true blue text from image 2, above, and putting it back into the .afphoto image, it reverts back to the non-blue colour. How do I make the image itself use blue rather than that .... err.... whatever colour it's currently parading as fake blue. How do I fix this:

@walt.farrell thanks so much! I must have inadvertantly unclicked that setting in the menu. Thank you! @Pšenda thanks for the resolution on Designer. I use Designer much less than Photo so am less familiar with it..

I have used many painting programs and I have been using Affinity for a while and always understood that erasing things left a grey/white square block visual to show there was no colour or content to show at that point. However, today, working on a graphic in turn in both Affinity Photo 2.4.2 and Affinity Designer 2.4.2 I use the erase tool, the flood erase tool but with either I absolutely can not make the erased area appear anything other than white, despite there being nothing below the layer. I have explored the settings for if there's a custom colour to set for erasure but no luck. Web and forum searches also turn up nothing. Working on a predominantly white image this is extremely awkward. How do I set that running erase on any type of layer shows that when there is no content to show for that point on the image that it displays the usual grey/white square blocks rather than any block colour (in this case white). Thanks I think this has occured since the 2.4.2 update last week but I am not certain.

@R C-R default doesn't select groups. That's the issue, that I can select objects OR groups but I can never select EITHER.

@R C-R from my use of Designer 2.21 today, re: "Isn't that in effect what the Move Tool selector offers?" No, the move tool allows EITHER group or object selection but NOT BOTH . Auto select seems to not select groups, in my usage, maybe because objects vastly out numbers groups in the document I've been working on so the program decides I don't want to ever select groups, but either way, it is what it is ... "How would a 'both' option determine if you wanted to select groups or objects in them?" I have no idea how this works! 🤣😂🤣

Per version 2.2.1 The Move tool has a drop down selector for canvas selecting either objects or groups, but not both.

There are some utterly bizarre changes implemented in V2. As stated above, this change is deeply frustrating when working with many objects and a few groups, I can't select the groups, or I can select the groups but then can't select the objects. Why the flying fudge can't I select both or either? And @R C-R saying that this was requested by some users, that's fine, but any modern developer should implement optin-optout ability for anything like this, so that I as a user can then turn this new feature off if desired. This is another fking hassle. Sorry I'm stressed as something that was previously easy to do has become tedious with this - along with other - "updates" to Affinity Designer V2.

And bingo. Got it. The client had given me a source otf font face that was ~63Kb . Searching online I found the same font with a ~101Kb face which appears to be an updated version. Using this seems to resolve the artefact issue. Thanks for the pointers.

Yes, @joe_l I have tested this by changing the font on the layer and I can't recreate the issue. It does seem specific to this font. Exampled; 2b is the Fucxed latin and 2c is the Franklin Gothic Medium font. print_pdf_glitch2b.pdf print_pdf_glitch2c.pdf

@joe_l I can't disagree. The font has been supplied by the client and appears to be their own font. However, the font installs and works correctly on my system and the issue _appears_ to be the font being used as/in an Artistic text rather than a Framed text . I don't know enough about fonts to judge this fonts usability but even so, it appears absolutely fine on saves and raw images / afdesign files but has issues outputting to PDF.

This issue is also occuring on other files using Artistic Text. Please see attached a seperate but identical incident. four.pdf print_pdf_glitch2.afdesign

Further to last please find the isolated layer on it's own file. This file's PDF export still causes the same artefacts. prin.pdf print_pdf_glitch.afdesign

@Callum I have exported, and I have noted that the type of PDF makes a difference. All PDF exports are 300 dpi and area = whole document. Issue occures on: PDF (for print) / PDF (press ready) / PDF (digital - both) / PDF (for export) / PDF/X (all) Issue does NOT occur on PDF (flattened). After checking each layer the issue is caused by the Green "Artistic" text layer. All other text is "Framed". I will find out how to send you the file on the forum...