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Hi walt.farrell 😉 Thanks for your tip, but if I choose to rasterise all in the PDF options.......I may as well be using a different format to save the document - such as PNG. My whole intention of using PDF, is to preserve what I created as a vector illustration. It's a shame that with the effects I have used within the program......which were predominantly just "gaussian blur" on some of my fill in shapes to blend the different colour tones - this feature seems to be the likely cause of the error when viewing the exported PDF. I may need to dive into the limitations and the "do's and don'ts" of Affinity Designer to be able to preserve an illustration as "purely a vector file" when trying to generate a PDF. Saving the file as an EPS also causes the same errors.

Thanks for having a look Joachim_L. The whole image is created in the Designer Persona, so I was assuming it treats every element as a vector element. This is such a frustrating bug.

Hi Joachim_L If that helps with hopefully coming up with a solution, I'm more than happy to. WE CARE.afdesign

So nobody else has had issues with exporting PDFs out of Designer and their generated files opening up corrupted, as per my example? For me it really puts a massive question mark on the value/usefulness of the software, if I am using a Vector-based program, but am not able to generate a functioning, cross-platform vector file at the end of the design process.

Hi Affinity Team Have finally jumped in the deep end and am having loads of fun "learning while creating" in Affinity Designer. An amazing bit of software which I'm already enjoying far more than Illustrator! I just wrapped up creating some simple illustrations for my kids school, but have run into a serious PDF rendering issue of my files. Each PDF saved, displays strange blocks across my illustrations or has sections where content is missing. This is very troubling, as I have no way of being able to export a vector version of my work. My only temporary solution is saving the images as high-res PNG files, which thankfully do render correctly. I have included a side-by-side comparison of a PDF and PNG export of one of the illustrations, so you can see what is frustrating me. The PDF illustration was saved as PDF (digital - high quality) Is there a simple fix for this problem? Have currently tried all the different PDF saving/exporting options, with the same results. I am running version 1.8.3.641 of Designer on my PC. Hope you can help!