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  1. Dave Harris
    Which format are you exporting in? What is the symptom that shows it doesn't work? I just tested PDF, and JPEG quality did get used, and so did Raster DPI. For example, in the File > Export panel both affected the size of the file. (Of course, there needs to be a rasterised portion in the file.)
  2. Dave Harris
    Thanks for reporting this. It'll be fixed in the next beta.
  3. Dave Harris
    We won't be putting back the old PDF export engine, but we will fix bugs in the new one. It does look like Text as Curves is broken, and we'll fix that in the next beta. Thanks for reporting it, and sorry for the inconvenience.
  4. Dave Harris
    Could you attach an .afdesign that gives the error? I had thought the problem you raised on 15th October was fixed in previous betas.
  5. Dave Harris
    I'm afraid this PDF does not conform to the PDF standard. For example, it does not contain an "startxref". It does contain a mis-spelt "startref", but the value in it is nonsense. There are more problems with it later. Preview is more tolerant of these issues than Affinity. If you open it in Preview and resave it, Affinity will then open the saved version.
  6. Dave Harris
    Affinity uses only outline data from the font, so if there are raster effects or colours built into the font itself, it probably won't appear at all. However, if it's a normal font with some additional textures, then we could probably use those as bitmap fills or by clipping to the text.
  7. Dave Harris
    This is intended. Sometimes layers will be construction lines, or artwork that you traced, or notes to yourself, that for whatever reason you don't want to include in the final output. The Export Persona lets you hide them, just for export, and still see them when you are working on them in the other views. It's supposed to be less error-prone than having to hide and unhide every time you export. Layers hidden in the Draw persona are also hidden in the Export persona, so by default (if you don't hide anything in Export) they will look the same. Using layers to imitate pages isn't ideal with this setup, but the real solution is for us to implement pages properly, which we will do in due course.
  8. Dave Harris
    The order is the order in the layer panel, bottom to top. If you think in terms of overlapping objects, then the first artboard to be drawn becomes the first page. If you start with a blank document and create four artboards, the one you created first will become the first page, and the one you created last will become the last page. No way should artboard have page numbers, because artboards are not pages. We will add proper page support in due course.
  9. Dave Harris
    The Customer Beta is a separate app, but it won't run unless the Mac App Store version is also installed (and in the usual place), so you do need to keep both.
  10. Dave Harris
    Not if the files are saved by the beta. You will be able to use the beta to produce the PDF without saving the file. If you do save the file, you'll need to keep using the beta until the Mac App Store is updated.
  11. Dave Harris
    It's trying to be helpful and avoid the case where printers marks are included but no specific marks are checked. It'll be fixed in the next beta.
  12. Dave Harris
    This should be fixed in the next beta.
  13. Dave Harris
    There is already a bleed parameter, in the Document Setup. It doesn't preview yet, but will do fairly soon.
  14. Dave Harris
    Then I'm sorry, but I don't know what else to suggest, other than wait for the next beta and hope that works for you.
  15. Dave Harris
    Thanks for the file. There are two things happening here. The first is our bug. The bottom group with the big grey circle has opacity of 75%, which causes it to get rasterised - and it gets clipped to the document size in the process. It needs to allow for bleed when that happens. We'll get that fixed for the next beta. The other thing is that this group contains a clipping curve of its own. The top of it is high enough to include the top of the grey circle, but it clips out the left and bottom edges well before the 3mm bleed area should end. This means that even with bleed working, the document won't export like "tarxeta impect print.pdf" unless you remove that clipping curve.
  16. Dave Harris
    If you export with the option I suggested in my previous post, the file will be large but you should be able to open it with Corel, and then you can re-export it with whatever settings you normally use in Corel for your printer.
  17. Dave Harris
    It looks like Corel has a bug in its CMYK JPEG support, that is inverting the colour channels. When I exported your document as PDF from the Mac App Store version, the result looked correct in Preview, Finder's Preview, and in Acrobat, so it's Corel that is wrong. Try using File > Export > PDF > More and unticking Allow JPEG compression. That will avoid using JPEG.
  18. Dave Harris
    Your printer requires PDF/X, and Affinity Designer does not yet support that, so you can't use current Affinity products. I'm sorry. If you have Corel or Photoshop, you could try exporting your documents from Designer, import into one of those, and use them to produce the PDF you need.
  19. Dave Harris
    I suggest you wait until our next Customer Beta is available, which should be in a few days, and then download and use that.
  20. Dave Harris
    Yes, PDF export is generally broken at the moment. See https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/14652-affinity-designer-customer-beta-1357/p=65559 for details and possible workarounds. It'll be fixed in the next beta.
  21. Dave Harris
    1979mark, those requirements specify PDF/X-3, which the current Mac App Store version of Affinity does not support. The Customer Beta does add support for PDF/X, but it is currently broken. It should be fixed in a few days, and the Mac App Store version updated before Christmas, so you will need to wait for one of those. Those requirements also specify that all text be converted to curves. To conform, you'll need to set File > Export > PDF > More > Embed Fonts to Text as Curves. Finally, they don't want tiling patterns used. The current Customer Beta sometimes uses tiling patterns for bitmap fills. I'll change this so that it is disabled unless Allow Advanced Features is set.
  22. Dave Harris
    Are you using File > Export to produce the PDF? If so, be aware that it is using the wrong colour profile and/or crashing, so it is best avoided in this beta. It also sets the bleed wrong in the page, but it does clip to bleed and draw crop marks in the right places. In this case it is drawing and clipping as if the bleed was zero. Is it possible you unticked Bleed in File > Export > PDF > More? If not, and if you're sure you've set Document Setup > Bleed correctly, could you attach the .afdesign file, so I can have a look at that's happening?
  23. Dave Harris
    Our multi-page support is not great, but will get better. In the Mac App Store version, each page becomes a separate layer, but you have to request this by checking the right option in the second dialog, and then you have to show the layer for the page you want and hide the others. There's no good way to export a multi-page PDF at all. It is a little better in the Customer Beta, in that it supports artboards and pages are mapped to artboards instead of layers so you can see them all at once. However, in the current beta the PDF export is too broken to use. In a week or so, there should be a new beta with fewer bugs, and we hope to update the Mac App Store version before Christmas. True multi-page support will come later.
  24. Dave Harris
    We're sorry about that. See my earlier post #60 in this thread for more details and workarounds.
  25. Dave Harris
    It looks like PDF export is badly broken, I'm afraid. It's not getting its colour profiles right. As a result it either uses a default CMYK profile (even if you are trying to export to RGB), or else (for PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4) it just crashes. Either way isn't really usable. If you are crashing, then CTRL+runup with Clear User Defaults checked will reset the dialog so it doesn't open on the PDF page so you can at least export as something else. You can still output a PDF by using File > Print > PDF > Save as PDF..., albeit without any of the new features. I'm very sorry about this. We'll get it fixed in the next update.
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