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Hi there! I was looking for this option too. It'd be a plus if it had Portuguese (European) too, besides the Brazilian variant.

Portugal has a lot of designers looking for great design software! We even have a great History with England!

Thank you in advance, Affinity Team!

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On 1/21/2021 at 2:11 AM, thomaso said:

Besides your mentioned rasterization (I haven't tried), another way to avoid the error seems to be related to its color space or profile. I can successfully export
– either by choosing PDF/X
– or after switching the .afpub to CMYK + the image to K-Only.

In this clip the continuous "Calculating..." process indicates an error message on export, whereas an estimated size indicates successful export.

Thank you so much for your time, Thomaso. And for the explanations on the video. Very explicit
I thought the delay in the calculation had to do with the large size (which wasn't that large). But thanks for the info. I'll be paying attention.

Hope Affinity team can solve this

Best regards,

SG

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Just uploaded the files to your dropbox. Can you forward them to the team if needed? I'd appreciate.

Thanks for your time

SG

 

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Hi thomaso; you're welcome.

I just created a new Apub file (A4), random picture frame (1st thing), placed the image, the error still happened.

Then, did the same thing, but copied the same image to a different directory before placing it. Same export error.

Hope it helps.

I can upload both the file and the image. Is there a private link?

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Greetings all,

So, i had this exact same problem (Affinity Publisher+PDF export) and seemed to track down the problem and find a solution.

So, to brief it, the error message1 would come up whenever i tried to export this APub file (w/ 30+ pages, images of many sizes; text titles and subtitles, up to 5 different fonts, and interactive hyperlinked elements) into a PDF.

Initially i thought it was the size (i thought like: "really? ... can't be" - a i have a pretty reasonable rig). I tried almost all PDF export methods available in APub, and the only one that worked was the rasterize everything... which is a bit 'yucky' ...

So, as soon as i got a lil' time i went to track the problem down: I started exporting sections (pages 1-10, then 1-15, then 1-20, etc.) until i found which page was the problem, and then to make sure, i tried to export the section after it, and then that page alone. It was only one page.

So, in my case, it had nothing to do with Fonts; as i happened to find, there were 2 picture frames with very long (height wise) images inside; i rasterized those 2 picture frames and voilá, it worked. [update: It had to do with only one of the images, regular .JPG file, less than 1000 KB; see end of the post for JPEG detailed info]

It shouldn't happen, i know, and would be great if Serif/Affinity team could solve these almost random issues; but i hope it helps.

If your case is different, my 2 cents' advice is to try to track down what page(s) is the trouble-maker, and see what could be messing with the export.

Best Regards

SG

1 - "An error occurred while trying to export to: (...)"

PROBLEMATIC JPEG INFO:

Format                      : JPEG
Width                       : 844 pixels
Height                      : 1 804 pixels
Color space                 : YUV
Chroma subsampling          : 4:2:0
Bit depth                   : 8 bits
Compression mode            : Lossy
Stream size                 : 976 KiB (100%)
ColorSpace_ICC              : CMYK

[Affinity Designer: Mockup]

On 6/12/2020 at 2:00 PM, walt.farrell said:

In Photo, you enable the Preference to import smart objects as objects:

But that function is only offered in Photo.

Worked great. It does the same as Ps mock ups! Thank you!!

[AP freezing when saving a document]

Heya everyone; I have been using Affinity software for a while now, and now i got this "freeze-while-saving" thing too.

Rig: Win10 (64) running on an Asus laptop, 32gb RAM, saving files on 250gb SSD, nVidia1060 GPU.

So, APhoto first froze while exporting a file into TIFF format (it happened again while trying PSD format as an alternative as well).

PATTERN: I exported a first version of the [small simple] file with no problems. As i made some changes (turning on/off some layers) and tried to export a second time, as soon as i hit the "Export", it freezes altogether. Nothing to do except force quit on task manager. It's NOT RANDOM so far, I CAN REPLICATE, it happens on the second export after restarting APhoto (first export happens with no problems).

[EDIT:] Doesn't seem with other files, just with this specific file.

I export using shortcut CTRL+Shift+Alt+S

The files are syncing with google drive sync. No embedded docs that im aware of.

[EDIT 2:] Happened the exact same way (ie, on the second export, now into PDF) but this time in APublisher. Source files for the pages were JPEGs from a USB drive (On the first case source files were from the laptop SSD.). This was while exporting directly to the USB drive. No cloud sync working now.

Thank you for your time

[Spray Tool]

I've been using Designer for illustration purposes and found it very fluid with lots of cool features (the isometric grids; the ability to switch to PP* and add those awesome textures to your shapes, etc etc)

But AD surely deserves the Spray tool as referred 1st by @sorax:

On 4/18/2017 at 9:23 AM, sorax said:

Hello again.

 

It would be great to have a spray tool in Affinity Designer to scatter selected objects ( or just symbol(s) ) with configurable deviation of position/rotation/scale and opacity. I imagine it won't be very hard to implement and it would be very useful. Thanks!

Let's do it Serif! Upgrade a Spray Tool   ✨in AD!✅ 

*Pixel Persona