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Interesting application. Briefly looking at it I could not see how to export a PDF, only had option for TIFF, JPEG, PNG, etc. Trovalds really should not have to do anything on his/her end. These printshops are over the top requiring this level of PDF compatibility especially from such an old profile. Personally I would be shopping around for a printer who can do these simple jobs without requiring you to back save a PDF or buy a program that will do this. Really is crazy.

@bobdolb First question is how did you purchase Affinity Photo? Through the Affinity website or through the Apple App store? Is this a new purchase or did you have it running before and are trying to upgrade to 1.8.3?

This is a weakness in the Affinity apps, I find the UI when it comes to colour is needlessly confusing. I am sure part of it is not using it a lot as I am sticking with Adobe and only testing things here and there on the 3 Affinity apps I purchased. Indesign has it best, Illustrator is good though they give a lot of unnecessary starting colours in the swatch panel. Using Indesign as the example you start out with 10 common colour swatches. Anything else you drop in that document is immediately added to the swatch. So I had job I was working on, I dropped in the 2 colour logo and it was just there, ready to use in other parts of the document. No tabs, switching back and forth, just simple. It may be me but all the drop downs and things Affinity throws in the colour/swatches section just make my head spin.

I would work with the assumption that files are not always/ever going to translate perfectly over to a different application from a different company. To achieve the best results you should be working with the same software. That being said, opened the provided file in photoshop. Not sure what I should be looking for or how it is supposed to look. Took a screen shot. Each red piece is a different layer. I can remove the solid white background layer and it is transparent. This is in the latest version of Photoshop.

I am sure you have done this, but never hurts to check. Have you restarted your computer? This solves so many weird glitches and is always my first thing to do when something is not acting normally.

If printing to PDF then yes you would have the same problem you had before. When I googled it I came up with this video showing how to export to PDF, does this do the same thing as print to PDF does?

When I was checking something earlier I noticed issue when starting with 300 dpi and then changing after to much higher. If I started with the document in Designer and set my DPI to 1200 it was fine. For some reason did not like it when it started as 300 and changed after. So I would suggest what Ray S. said, enter it from the beginning and see how it goes from there.

That is the problem with trying to do this sort of setup in a word processing program. If you have it set how you like it in Open Office are you able to save a PDF and then print the PDF as nothing should change when going to print from that. This is where Publisher would be much better suited for any new projects you are going to begin. If it was just text then I would say do it anywhere but the fact that you are setting it up with illustrations is where Publisher is needed to do this easily and properly.

To get a clean png file I had to export it at 1200dpi. I did this from Illustrator. I then tried from Designer, I started with my document size and did not change the DPI, it was default set to 300. I placed the file and then went back and changed to 1200dpi, results were not go and did not match my Illustrator export with same document specs. I went back to Designer and started off correct this time with document size (which was the same as before) and changed from 300 DPI to 1200 DPI. This gave me results matching Illustrator, as it should. I find if you have to have text and convert to png, jpeg or any other like format you really need to boost the DPI to get clean results.

That is some very cool stuff. Nothing useful for me but the effect is amazing. I know Photoshop has 3D capabilities, I toyed with some 3D models a while back. Does Photos have any 3D capabilities at all?

Sounds like overkill for the type of work you are doing. No other print shops you can deal with? I have been in print a while and never dealt with any shop that demanded a certain PDF standard. Preflight will check for things like colours - RGB, Spot, etc, image quality and things like that. Your type of jobs should go in and out with little fuss. They should be able to ignore any warnings that come up in their prepress client, we use Apogee and it will give a warning and if we want we just acknowledge it by the click on a button and continue on. Any reasonably skilled person in prepress should be able to tell if a business card or flyer is going to print out ok without this level of ancient preflight.

+1 RGB has a wider colour gamut as well and can achieve brighter more vivid colours. Have customers all the time question why their proofs do not have specific colours that look as vibrant as what they sent in and it is always because what they sent in is RGB and it will never print that way on CMYK printers. Only way I am hitting those colours is on my 12 colour Epson wide format printer and that is because it prints RGB.

I would just keep it simple, do not use "." as a separator in a file name. I have never seen anyone do it and it is obviously causing a problem so the simplest solution would be to do something more standard like "Filename_B.png" Or just use a space "Filename B.png".

I have Publisher set to prefer linked. Though the current way Publisher handles PDF's I still would not use it as it still tries to make the PDF editable in Publisher and does not see embedded fonts which creates a world of headaches and issues. When I had first seen the option to prefer linked I was hopefully that this would resolve font issue with PDF placed in Publisher, unfortunately it does not. I would be very careful with placed PDF's in Publisher, linked or embedded. If you have to use it make sure you compare the PDF from a PDF viewer to what you see in Publisher to make sure nothing has changed.

Sorry missed the part where the hard enter was used. Thought people were just skipping over that little piece. The way it is setup is the correct way, it is a separate line within the same text box. Not sure how removing that step would save anytime worth the coding that would be involved to adjust the software to do that automatically for the last line of a paragraph.

Lots of reasons why you would want to do this with the last line and my post above shows it is easily done. Some quotes are left justified and the author is right justified below, same for Bible verses and things like that. Not sure the reason behind it but do think it aesthetically looks good and makes text look less like a formal letter.

So if you want just the last line justified opposite you have to actually highlight the text and then select the justification. Now with the last line you have to actually hit the enter key to force it to be on the next line. If you don't it will justify the entire document as you described. Indesign works the same way.

I hate when people do text in Photoshop and seems the same is true with Photos. Photo is a photo editing app, you really should be doing text in Designer or Publisher unless you are doing some weird special effects to your text. Text is not vector in Photoshop or in Photos. I made a letter E and exported as a high res JPG. I put a letter E in publisher and placed the JPG beside it. The difference is obvious. Left is Photos and is pixelated. Right is Publisher and is flawless, you could enlarge that 1000% and not lose resolution. Edit your photo in Photos, for text move along to Designer or Publisher... if you want clear sharp text.

I always look at outlining as a last ditch effort. Works pretty much all the time but you lose the ability to edit. Would not be a big deal as he has the working file but have had my clients who had their own files made and lost their working file and wanted a simple text change made to the PDF. Acrobat makes this a breeze most of the time, you lose all that obviously if you outline. A bad font can do all sorts of things, personally I have never had it crash on export but I have had a bad font that was activated on my computer pretty much destroy the OS as it conflicted with a system font. Thankfully had a TimeMachine backup and could go back an hour before I loaded the supplied font.

Could definitely be a font issue. As a test try changing all fonts to something standard like arial or times new roman and see what happens when you export. If it goes fine then it is a font issue and you can add back each font one at a time to see which one is causing the issue. A bad font can cause a world of headaches.

Opened up and exported fine from Publisher on my Mac. First thing I would do when something like this happens is open Publisher and close it, cleans out anything it is trying to restore after a crash. Then restart the computer, open your file and export. File looked really simple and basic, can't see anything that should cause it to crash.

Chromebooks really are not meant for this type of work. If you are doing some personal hobby design stuff and only have a Chromebook you could try the website www.canva.com which allows you to simply create nice designs with their preloaded templates or adjust however you want.

Good to hear it is resolved, hopefully you don't have the problem again. From my light use it has always been stable.

Sorry meant Publisher, had photoshop on the brain for some reason.

Can you copy and paste from Designer to Publisher? So open the file in Designer, copy page by page to a new Publisher document.