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Working with Affinity Designer 1.8.6 on Big Sur 11.0.1 I am having trouble with the Page borders. Opening a document I had assigned page borders before and checking the document settings they show up like not set at all. Then re-checking the button to use page borders, updating a single value and hitting OK will result in all the other values I had not updated disappear. This happens repeatedly. I only get all my page borders correctly if I overwrite each singe value in one session. How comes?

Thanks a lot for all your help! I‘ve now sent both .psd files and new PDFs with advanced options disabled. Hope they can print the PDFs for better quality. However, I have the same issue with the .psd export mentioned above: All layers are included but needs to be released from being clipping masks. That’s strange as it happens despite any changes made to the export options. I see this in Photoshop as well as in AF Designer/Photo. This seems to be a bug, doesn’t it?

Thank you so much for spending your time and checking my files! Good to hear my PDFs are o.k. which means Publisher is working correctly. I will talk to the printshop guy tomorrow and see wether he can open the .psd file.

Turned out I'm having sort of prolonged problems with my PDFs from Publisher. Sorry to bother again … After I understood that the transparency-problem was only on my local office printer, I decided to send a proper PDF/X-3 to the commercial printer yesterday. This is what I usually do when working with commercial printshops and so far I had no problem. This very printshop normally prints traffic-signs and is the only vendor we could find to produce our 12 prints on aluminium and ship solid metal-frames as well to put the signs up in public. So this is a bit delicate when it comes to choosing a different vendor. Short, my PDF made problems. It was a single file with 12 pages + back. I then rasterized the whole pages within Publisher and exported them as single PDF/X-3 files just to make sure. Still they say they get weird documents on opening. Turned out they open my PDFs in Corel19! I wasn't aware a commercial printer would use such a software (I only used CorelDraw around 25y ago during my apprenticeship in computer graphics and it was a pain in the butt). I do not know but would assume they rather should use Acrobat for opening and printing the file. As I do not own Acrobat at the moment (Apple Preview does the job pretty well) I can not use the Preflight-Mode. Any other way to check my files? I am still not sure wether this is a problem with my/Publishers files or within the printshop. Just in case you want to check my files, you find them here: Link removed for matters of privacy. I´ve added a single page exported as PDF/X-1, PSD and EPS for them to check, but haven't heard back. Would like get help Thanks, Till PS: I´m attaching screenshots I got from the commercial printer. This is how my PDF looks on their computer running Corel19 …

Yes, I rasterized the layer within Publisher then exported as PDF

Bingo! That trick did the job! What I did is rasterize the layer containing the transparency within AF Publisher. But I believe it might as well work when choosing to rasterize everything when exporting to PDF (in PDF settings). However I think this is only needed when printing on my office printer, isn't it? Official PDF X1 and X3 export does not suggest to rasterize everything …

Hey, thanks a lot for the quick answers! I actually wasn't aware of the fact that my CMYK-file would get printed as RGB-data on my home printer but this sounds most likely to be the source of trouble. I tried to print a PDF exported as X1a-standard but to no avail. Still showing artifacts. I will talk to my commercial printer guy which settings I should use and hope their RIP will rasterize properly. I just wasn't sure if any parts of my workflow were incorrect. Have a nice weekend!

Hi there, I just ran into a problem with a design I'm currently working on: I work in Publisher and have placed a colored rectangle as a background. On top of that I placed an image I manipulated in AF Photo. That image contains transparency. When printing a test on my home printer there is a color offset around the placed image i.e. the background color does not match the surrounding color. I made sure all documents are in CMYK as the file will be printed professionally. All files are set to the same color profile. I've saved the image in the following formats to evaluate differences: afphoto, PDF, PNG, TIF and PSD. All have transparency applied, the resulting color offset is not be seen on screen (which is calibrated) but in my test print. Any idea what I can try to solve this? I've tried to recreate the design in AF Designer but it shows the same problem. The attached snapshot shows the result from my AF Designer attempt. I need to get the files over to the printer on mondän so I'm a bit in a hurry … any help welcome! Thanks!