DanielPPeters

Hey Hangman, thanks for the response. That's really weird. The file I sent you should have the Retrospect logos (both of them) embedded. I've attached a screen shot of the Resources Manager. As you can see, the Retrospect logos are embedded, but the Brothers.jpg and the Star Trek Logo WHITE.ai are linked. If the Retrospect logos were linked, wouldn't they be showing up on your end as "Missing" in the status column of your Resource Manager... just like the Brothers.jpg and the Star Trek logo WHITE.ai? The PDF settings I'm using are the Affinity default PDF (for print) with the only change being the addition of "Include printers marks". Also, my printer uses digital printing, not CMYK separation. I been back and forth with him a dozen times to try and find a print setting that works best with his system and the default PDF (for print), but again, the logos must be embedded or it prints way darker. Thanks again for your help.

Hello gentlemen Thank you so much for engaging in this discussion. I'm going to share the original eps file downloaded from the website Depositphotos.com. PLEASE DO NOT SHARE or use this image as it is against my licensing agreement to share it freely. I'm hoping it will be acceptable for the purposes of this investigation. Less complex images, like QR codes downloaded from legitimate sites show no degradation in quality. The more complex the images (number of elements and layers etc...) the more distorted the images seem. MikeW... you also mentioned that other applications could open AI portions of the file more faithfully. Could you list a few? I cancelled my subscription to Adobe and moved to Affinity because of the cost. I really don't want to go back to Adobe if I don't have to. Also, has anyone heard from the Affinity staff in regards to this issue? Thanks again. Christmas background blue v kr.eps

Hi Callum. My sincerest apologies for not getting back to you earlier. I've attached the logo in pdf format as well as the file I was using when I noticed the problem. I decided to embed the logo for my printer as the "linked" logo was printing darker than an "embedded" logo. As you can see from the attached file, the embedded logo has not changed colour. Embedding the file seems to have fixed the issue. The only problem now is that I have to embed certain files if I want them to print and display correctly. Please let me know if there is a solution where I can get the same print and display fidelity without embedding files, as I would prefer to use linked files instead. Thanks Daniel Retrospect Studios HORIZONTAL.pdf COA - Retrospect Studios (16x12) SE Brothers.afpub

Every eps file I import into Affinity Designer 2 looks awful. The graphics are separated into unusual sections and gradients and shadows are changed (misplaced or redrawn) and some graphic elements look as though they have been rasterized (The graphic no longer appears smooth and well drawn.... they look pixelated). Every single eps I've tried to import turns out this way. Is there a setting that needs to be adjusted? Not sure how useful Designer will be if it can't handle eps files. Please help. I've attached and eps and a jpg of the same file to you can see the two and how Designer is treating the eps. Daniel Christmas background blue v kr.eps

Hi friends I'm experiencing something very strange. I just recently switched from Adobe to Affinity. As a result most of the pdfs logos I am using were created in Adobe programs such as Illustrator and InDesign. In Affinity Publisher, when I open a document that was created in the past, the placed pdf's colours changes. Please see attached screenshot. The Retrospect logo on the top was placed in this Publisher document about a week ago. When I opened up the document a few days later I noticed a visible colour change in the logo. I then placed the exact same pdf logo below the first one... and sure enough the colours are different. Can someone please let me know what might be happening here? Thanks