Worker

Yes, I've thought about that, too. However, I am happy now. Thanks again, Worker

Thank you very much, Old Bruce, this was the crucial hint. I missed this way to do adjustments to pictures within Publisher. I tried it and it does everything I wanted. Obviously I should read the documentation more carefully. I still feel pictures shouldn't be messed up if the user switches to the Photo Persona from Publisher and back, but since I don't need it anymore I am very happy with things as they are. Thanks again to you Old Bruce and to walt.farrell for helping, Regards, Worker

I did some experimenting and I'm not sure if this is the correct way to test it: open Publisher with my test file "GG_2022-06_Rohbau_75_bevor.afpackage" go to "Document settings" → "Color format" set "RGB/8" select the picture I like to correct switch to Photo Persona do some adjustments to "shadow/light"; the "shadow" adjustment behaves different to what is does if I leave the document setting as "RGD/32 HDR"; depending from the degree I lift the shadows it somehow seems to damage the image switch back to Publisher Persona use "Export" to PDF the result is still a more or less solarized image. I understand that I do not need to use "RGD/32 HDR" and that RGB/8 ist the right document setting for my environment. However, can using "RGD/32 HDR" really be the reason for this solarization effect? Thank you for your attention, Worker

Thanks for commenting my post. The test document provided ist only an excerpt of a larger document. I really didn't think of the fact that jpg files only use 8 bits per channel but I thought RGB 32 uses three 8 bit channels. However, do you think the fact that the document's color format is RGB/32 HDR could be the reason of the picture being corrupted in the exported PDF file? Also I am using these PDF export setting parameters since a long time. I would be very grateful if you could advice me what PDF parameter could cause this strange behaviour. I have tried to use the color setting "RGB" for the PDF export but that also gives bad result. By the way, if I replace this picture using the "Replace picture" function, the resulting PDF file is perfect. Thank you and good night, Worker

Sometimes when I switch from Publisher Persona to Photo Persona in order to adjust contrast or brightness of a picture and then switch back to Publisher the picture will appear solarized in an exported PDF file. This only happens intermittendly. I have posted this problem before and I still can't see what I am doing wrong and would appreciate any help. In a Publisher document with these document settings for color: One of the pictures (embedded) in the document is to dark, it needs some correction. I mark this picture and click the "Photo Persona" icon. Inside the Photo Persona I adjust shadows and contrast. I then click the "Publisher Persona" icon in order to return to Publisher. the picture looks perfect in Publisher Persona. Now I select "export" to create a PDF file. I use the following settings for the PDF-creation: The photo which had been adjusted within the Photo Persona looks perfect within Publisher, however if I export the document to a PDF file it now somehow looks solarized in the PDF file: It seems that the switch to the Photo Persona has made some changes to the picture which take affect during export to PDF. My circumvention is not to use the Photo Persona from inside Publisher but adjust the picture externally. This, however, takes longer and is not as nice as Persona switching. I have experimented with the color space setting in the export to PDF dialog with no success. The ZIP file attached contains two afpackages, one before the switch to the Photo Persona had been done and the other after this switch. It further contains the resulting PDF files. Using these packages it is possible to reproduce the problem. My environment ist the following: Windows 11, Version 21H2 (Build 22000.675), Version of Affinity Publisher and Photo: 1.10.5.1342 Thank you for looking into this, I would be grateful for any help or hints. With kind Regards, Worker Test_files.zip

Hi Gabe, thank you for your explanation. I will carefully observe Publisher's behaviour. If I'll find a reproducable problem I will let you know. With kind Regards, Worker

Danke für den Hinweis, Andreas! Daran habe ich auch gedacht und eineige Tests durchgeführt. Für die Damen und Herren von Serif versuche ich das lieber in English zu erklären: In an attempt to clearify the reasons of rasterisation I did some tests. To me the bottom line is that I was not able to achive the result which was the base of this forum entry, please see the first attachment »Rasterised_letters_in PDF.gif«. I did not manage to unintentional get rasterised text letters into the PDF file. It seems to me that for no obvious reason Affinty sometimes fails to return text letters from rasterised to normal when switching back from Affinity Photo to Publisher. My text document: one master page with heading and footing, one textframe, two photos within this frame Test 1 shows that text appears rasterised in Affinity Photo if switched from Publisher to Photo but it is returned to normal if switched back to Publisher. Test 2 shows that even if unintentionally the text frame is selected when switching to Affinity Photo and, for example, Light/Shadow adjustments are made (wich of course make no sense and have no effect) after returning to Affinity Publisher all text letters are shown normal and they are normal in a PDF file created. Test 3 shows that if one of the photos is selected when switching to Affinity Photo and, for example, an outer shadow is added to the photo after returning to Affinity Publisher all text letters are shown normal and they are normal in a PDF file created. This is what you would expect. In test 4 the text frame is selected when switching to Affinity Photo and, for example, an outer shadow is added to the text frame. This will give an outer shadow to all letters, see attachment »Pic-01_Affinity_Photo_Shadow_applied_to_text_frame.gif«. After returning to Affinity Publisher all text letters and shadows are shown normal, see attachment »Pic-02_Affinity_Publisher_Shadow_applied_to_text_frame.gif«. An »fx« appears in the text layer. When exported to a PDF file the text shows correct letters and, however, rasterised shadows, see attachment »Pic-03_Affinity_Publisher_Shadow_applied_to_text_frame_in_pdf.gif«.

Thanks for the hint. Yes, if I look at the layers panel, there is the »fx« shown for the text layer and in the popup »layers effects« there is »shadow outside« selected. If I remove this option the text is no longer rasterised. So the only question remaining is why would this hardly visible shadow be applied to the text? My only intention was to brighten the the photo, this was the reason to switch to the Pphoto Persona. I can't believe that I have several times unintentionally applied this effect to the text layer. But who knows... Anyhow, you pointed me to a way to take the rasterisation off from the text and I have something to watch out for when switching to the Photo Persona next time. Thanks and Regards, Worker

My environment: Win 10 Version 2004 Build 19041.746, Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.932, Affinity Photo 1.9.0.932, 16GByte memory Working on a Publisher document I create a text frame insert 2 photos insert some text select one of the photos using the apropriate icon I switch to the Photo Persona do some adjustments to this photo using the Publisher icon I switch back to the Publisher Persona After these actions sometimes all text in the text frame will be converted into a graphic. I can see a shadow around letters if I zoom in to about 5000%. If I then create a PDF file letters will have jpg artefacts giving the page a slightly blurred impression. This happens intermittendly. I have posted this behavior bevor in my post from May 10th 2020 for Pubisher 1.8.3.641. That post, however, was started because photos had been solarized after switching to Photo Persona and back. Because the change made to the page is not obvious I only noticed later that text letters had been turned into graphics. There has been a follow up mail exchange with Gareth at affinity@serif.com on this problem where I had supplied more details and sample files but there was never a solution. I had hoped this problem would disappear in Publisher version 1.9 – it has not. I've tried but I'm afraid I'm not able to reproduce this problem. It happens again every now and then, the last time yesterday. Luckily, the last time I got a notice from the printer advising me that the complete page was made a graphic so I could repair the page bevor it had actually been printed. This problem frightens me because the effect is easily overlooked and a print of bad quality would be the result. While I'm aware of the fact that the problem in many cases sits in front of the keyboard I have no idea of what I could do wrong. Therefore I would be grateful for any hints. With kind Regards, Worker

Jon, could you please point me to the download adress to get the Beta? When I load my Beta (1.9.0.850) it has a "Download" button but this leads me to a forum. Thanks for your help, Worker

Good evening, Jon, my current document has only 32 pages, half of them still empty and it contains 35 photos so this is not a very high amount of pictures. I will download the latest Beta to do the test. But please remember that this is an intermittend problem. I am working on this document since a couple of days and yesterday was the first and only occurence so far. Can I use the latest Beta for production purposes? I mean will I be able to continue to work with the same source file later with a "production" version? Reards and thanks for your help on this problem, Worker

Good evening, are there any news about this strange behaviour of pictures being shown pixelated? Again, after loading a document, I noticed that one of photo stayed pixelated, even 30 minutes after loding, please see the attached picture. When I, however, created a PDF file the picture was shown correcly in the PDF. I am working with Affinity Publisher version 1.8.5.703. This time I worked on a small 32 pages document and only half of my memory was used. Therefore memory shortage should not be the reason for my problem. It would be very nice if this problem could be fixed because if working with a large document it is a nuisance that I need to check several hundreds of pictures each time the document is loaded. This checking is required because I had occurences where the pixelated picture also appeared in the PDF file. I would be very grateful if I could get a hint as of how to avoid this problem or, if it is a bug in Publisher, if it would be fixed. Thank you very much, Worker

Hi Jon P, thanks for your reply. I have installed affinity-publisher-customer-beta-1.9.0.850.exe and did some more testing. Pictures are still pixelated after loading the document, see "Screenshot_customer-beta-1.9.0.850.gif". This screenshot was taken about 10 minutes after loading the document. When I, however, created a PDF file from this page this very picture was shown correct in the PDF, even though it stayed pixelated in the Affinity Publisher window. So this is different to what I experienced with version 1.85 but then my problem did not occur every time. Even about 30 min. after the document had been loaded, when I scroll through the document, most pictures are not resolved completely. However, they get clear if I place a mouse click into the picture. Sometimes Publisher takes more than 10 seconds to respond. In these cases Publisher seems to "hang" and Windows says "Application not responding"; finally it responds again. When I observe the Windows Task Manager, I can see that my 16GB of memory are nearly completely used up and that the disk activity is very high. Please see screenshot "Screenshot_customer-beta-1.9.0.850_03.gif". Now, while I am writing this text, since loading the document about 60 minutes have passed. The memory usage has decreased from about 15GB to 10 GB. When I now scroll through the document it goes much faster; new pages still appear pixelated but they clear up within about less than a second. Could it be possible that my 16 GB memory are not sufficient for Publisher to work with this 136 page document? The source file size is about 85 MB and the resulting PDF is 1.2 GB. Please note that this was only ONE test with the beta 1.9.0.850. Even with version 1.85 this problem did not occur every time I loaded the same document. Thanks for your assistence in this problem, With kind Regards, Worker

My problem is still present and I urgently need a solution for it. Could I please get some assistance with this? When I start Publisher with my 136 pages document there are often, not always though, several of these corrupted images which stay pixelated, even after a longer time. When I "export" the document to a PDF file these pictures also are pixelated in the PDF file, please see the attached screenshots of the afpub- and the PDF file below. Each time after loding the afpub file I therefore need to scan the complete document for corrupted images. This takes some time in a document of 136 pages with several hundred images. If there are any pixelated images, in order to restore the image and get an uncorrupted PDF file I have to "replace" these corrupted pictures one by one which of course is very time consuming. When I use Windows' taskmanager to monitor the memory usage I find that sometimes about 15.6 of the available 15.7 GB of memory are used, nearly all of it by Publisher. The size of this afpub file is about 85 MB, the size of the resulting PDF file is between 560 MB and 1.2 GB, depending on the PDF options I use. As I said before, all images are linked from a local drive. I should mention that this problem has never happened with one of my smaller, i.g. 36 page documents. Could you please point me to a solution for my problem? Thank you very much for any help, Worker

Hi Jon P, I intended to add this reply yesterday but it does not show. Therefore I post it again, hopefully it will not appear twice. All images are located on my local hard drive. Each time I start Publisher and load the document, there are different images corrupted, sometimes 5, sometimes 20. So in order to see if embedding images solves my problem I would need to embed all of my images. Since the document contains more than 200 images this would mean to imbed several hundreds of mega bytes of images. I thought that would increase the size of my document to much, therefore I have not tried to embed all images. In experimenting with this problem I found out: After loading the document many images are pixelated. Most of them gradually are correctly loaded within a few seconds. When I advance to a new page, most images of this page are also completed more or less quickly. Some pictures, however, stay pixellated, even if I wait for minutes. If I "export" the document to a PDF file at this stage, these images are shown pixelated in the PDF file, too. If I then do a couple of mouse clicks to a pixelated image Publisher starts to complete loading of this image. This process take many seconds while Publisher seems to "hang". In the top line of the Publisher window there is a Windows message "Application not responding". Finally, Publisher finishes the load process and the image is shown correctly. My next step would be to return to Publisher 1.8.4 in order to be able to work again. I am gratefull for any help, thank you very much, Worker