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@Dan C Sorry Dan, still no luck. I've send a link to my dropbox via message.

@Dan C Hi, Could you send another file request? I've tried multiple times to upload and it fails after 5%. Not sure what is going on! Cheers, Chris

Hi, @Dan C Still having trouble exporting using the PDF (digital - small size ) preset. The preview never appears and if I go straight to Export there's an error message. I found a post from @nwhit which solved the problem exporting a PDF for offset printing. Seems it was an issue in Version 1, I did not find any reference to it in the Affinity Help. (See solution below) _______________________________________ Posted August 17, 2021 Okay, after a whole bunch of searches and reading, finally found an answer in a beta thread. 1. In Preflight panel, need to click the Edit Profile in the little Actions menu (top right of pane). 2. Go down to PDF Passthrough, then select the minimum type of PDF you're wanting to Place. 3. Will need to Create a Preset for that setting since the Default seems to be a minimum of X-1a:2003. Otherwise you will always see the error message if you are Placing regular v1.7 PDFs. Overall, doesn't seem like a very intuitive or smooth way to do this preflighting. Would think there would be a better way, but who knows. Maybe in upcoming versions. Just wish that this would be explained on the need and how to do this in the online Help for the app! The Help says there is a Preflight for PDF Passthrough, but doesn't explain how it works and the need to set it to what you want in the Edit mode. ________________________________________________ @Dan C @nwhit I made the change to PDF Passthrough but still get a warning on one placed Ad that (PDF Version (PDF-1.6) is not compatible? However the file appears to have output correctly using PDF/X-1a:2003 only. I got an error message using PDF/X-4. __________________________________________________ Exporting using the PDF (digital - small size ) preset will not work in any of the RGB colour space settings (Acrobat 5-8). It will export a 72dpi version as PDF/X-1a:2003, but I need an RGB version for online viewing. Any solutions? Below are my settings for Digital PDF

Thanks @nwhit I have Version 2 and struggling to output a 40 page magazine with multiple placed Advertisements in various pdf versions. The program keeps showing an error message before exporting the final pdf for CMYK Offset printing. Luckily I found your post through a web search. I made the change to PDF Passthrough but still get a warning that (PDF Version (PDF-1.6) is not compatible? However the file appears to have output correctly. Edited: (Using PDF/X-1a:2003. It gave an error message with PDF/X-4)

Hopefully there now Dan 😁

File should be there now

Sorry Dan, My internet crashed several times while trying to upload the file. Trying again this morning. Yes pdf is set to Passthrough.

No problem. It's a first draft. I also tried placing the Ads in Picture frames rather than placing direct - it seemed to help, but I don't know why?

Will you need all the links Dan?

Hi Dan, I know that some of my problems may be placed pdf content which has come from other designers. When I run the Preflight there are Font issues. All the Advertisments have fonts embedded in the pdf - only one has a spot colour. I have managed to make the Press Ready version of 40 pages - even though I did not fix issues with Ads in preflight. Still can't output the Digital version though. I've attached both logs 00:57:20 is the Digital version with error message 00:54:53 is the high res version that worked. pdflib.log pdflib.log

I managed to get a preview version of 40 pages by rasterising everything to 144DPI - good enough for my client to check copy while I try to fix the problem. See attached for settings. The preset for smallest Digital PDF was stuck in a loop.

Hi Angelique, I'm having the same problem with a 40 page Magazine - also with a deadline. If I get a solution in the next few hours I will post here.

Hi max1josef, So how did you get it to work? I think I'm using the latest version 1.8.5.703 and not working for me. I can't find any settings or options when I place the pdf?

OMG, I wasn't aware of this issue. Just finished the layout of a 56 page magazine and when I started to place all the Booked Advertisement's just about every one displayed incorrectly (See example below) I spent 3 hours online and in forum trying to find a solution. But apparently Version 1.8.5.703 will not place pdf's? So now I have to recreate the whole thing again in Indesign! I guess I must be naive - just expected it would be a standard feature. There was nothing in Help or Tutorials to suggest it would be a problem. A great shame as I did enjoy using AP for the layout. Not a serious contender for commercial publishing until that is resolved.

Thanks for replies (And the math lesson Alfred!) I've found the problem. It's a Layers issue that is further complicated by the Constraints/Parent/Child feature. I'm very new to AFP so still on a learning curve. I was saving my text frame from a Sublayer which must be controlled by the Constraints TAB. (Constraints is new to me so I'll need to read up on it) When I imported the file from IDML various blocks of text were grouped together in to Sublayers (See image attached) A text frame Asset saved from a Sublayer appears with Constraints applied when placed on the artboard - which is why it was reduced in size. I moved the text block to a normal Layer, then saved the text frame as an Asset. All working perfectly. Thanks again.