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I designed a card with a background image and text which I warped horizontally. If I print it, the "warped" text only prints what seems to be in the bounding box - cuts the txt off the top. Photo show screenshot of what is "supposed" to print and then a photo taken of the actual print.

Many thanks again. I'll continue to output to PDF/X-1a:2003 to be on the safe side

With my previous attempt, I did not have a white background (was transparent) and I exported "PDF (for print)". The PDF looked fine but when printed, the placed PNG (transparent) printed the transparent part black (attached).

Many thanks @Callum. You are a lifesaver I will edit the others I have with the same issue Have a great day

Hi @Callum Thanks for your reply. The file is attached. I really hope you can help. Regards Barry Side panels h100 2.6x230.afdesign

Exporting to PDF has been giving me issues for a while now. I'm using latest Affinity version and have laptop, windows 10 with 16GB ram and graphics card. When I export a file to PDF for print I experience transparent PNG's showing a black background when printed, etc. I therefore export using PDF/X-3:2003 which seems to work well. However, what took me a few minutes to export before (probably the ver9 of Affinity) now takes an hour or more. (The Affinity file size is 75mb and exported PDF is 19mb). My laptop also seems to use all its resources too and slows everything down making it hard to use while I'm exporting a file Any ideas of what I can try?

Hi Thank you very much for your reply. I have sent the file via Drobox. Unfortunately there are no .dmp files in %APPDATA%\Affinity\Designer\1.0\CrashReports My issue I found is if I expand Artboard 4, select last rectangle and try to copy (rightclick or "edit" copy) the file just closes - no errors

Hi @Callum Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the file sizes are large - the smallest being 16211 mb so not able to send... but I did manage to solve the problem. What I noticed is that the file was using 100% of my PC's resources. Any operation took forever to perform and this was happening on all the PC's/laptops I tried. From this I deduced that is was a Designer issue. I opened my file and tried to find the images I had linked to, but the resource manager did not show them. The images I used were copied and pasted directly from a previous Affinity design, so what I did was locate the originals on my PC and replace (place) them into my design. This solved the issue and now exports to PDF within seconds. I'm assuming this could be a Designer bug?

Hi I have designed some signs using Designer and am unable to export to PDF. It starts to export but then gets stuck showing the "Export item" popup. I have tried on various PC's using the same file but the same issue occurs. All the sign is, is a background image, 2 smaller images, some text and some shape elements. Using Windows PC, (Desktop and laptops) What I have tried: Export whole document Export individual artboard Open and export in Publisher Wait for an hour Copy elements of one sign and open as new document Reinstall (repair) Affinity Designer Export PDF, "For Print" and X-3 I am at a loss here. Any help would be appreciated

Hi all. I have design which when I try to copy a solid fil layer, the program crashes (just closes with no error reports). I'm using version 1.9.2 and have tried switching off "hardware acceleration" with the same result. My latest project does not have this problem, the only difference is that it is a lot smaller in size. Any ideas?

I have my Affinity Designer language set for en-UK however, when I perform preflight I get "Missing dictionary for language (en-ZA). I have changed my PC settings from English South Africa (en-ZA) to English UK but this has no effect Anyone have a solution?

Hi Yes, there is still an issue. I have uploaded the file. If you open and then delete the last master page (only tried with that one for now), the programe hangs with no scrolling etc. Can only end with task manager Regards Barry

I resorted to "Save as" and then it seemed to work and allowed me to go to a particular spread. See here too

This may help but not a fix (yet)

Another thing I have found should the page freeze, even selecting "Go to spread" from the page icons on the left does nothing. At this point there was no way to recover the file (close and reopen etc.). I did find that the "Save as" (select another name) does then work.. this had me worried as I had a large project open and all of my work would have been lost.

I went back and deleted any graphics on my master and now it does not freeze etc. Only problem is that Master pages are of no use if we can't use graphics

It seems when I delete one or two master pages, Publisher freezes. No option to close except via task manager. Also, often after editing a master page a portion of publisher would become unresponsive (can only scroll a couple of pages but not all) and cant edit anything further. A restart is required but any edits that were done are lost. Using Windows 10

Ah, thank you

Hi. It does sound weird. I have attached a PDF (just has 2 lines, top and bottom) created by Affinity Designer called "outline.pdf" which doesn't print correctly and also one called "Doc1.pdf" created with MS Word which prints fine. I also tried using Affinity Publisher and got the same outcome as Designer. Hope it turns out to be something quite simple outline.pdf Doc1.pdf

I have a very unusual PDF printing issue which I can't figure out. Steps: I create a document in Affinity Designer and exported to PDF for print. I open the PDF (which looks fine) and select print (the print review box looks fine) Once printed, there is a large "gap" on the top of the page and the bottom is cut off. Investigation: Print directly from Affinity designer - all is Ok Print standard Microsoft printer test page - all is OK Create PDF from Word - all prints OK Printer settings tired with PDF created from Affinity - print 100%, print original size, fit to sheet It still prints top gap and cuts off the bottom Create new document in Affinity (just a rectangle) and export to PDF - same issue as above I'm at a loss here - any ideas?

My photo refused to open anything this morning. Ver 1.7.2.471, windows 10. Noticed when I tried to open an image "open with" Affinity Photo it started to launch then just closed. I then opened photo and it launched OK but then closed as soon as I tried to start a new project. I often leave my PC on and rather let the PC "sleep" than shut down. When I couldn't fix the error, I rebooted my PC and all started to work normally. Photo now OK.

When I export a file to preset PDF Print all looks OK but when I export to PDF/x-3:2003 (which I use to make sure drop shadows print correctly) I get a weird coloration color creeping in as per the attached (pink faces ). Used to use Indesign and never had an issue. Am I doing something wrong?

That worked. Thank you

I have an image inside a picture frame and I want to give only the frame a drop shadow. I can do this if I create an empty frame but if it already contains an image, the style is applied to the image and not the frame. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Hi all. How can I manipulate text (squash it etc.) as per the attached? I know I can convert to curves and manipulate each character individually but was hoping I could manipulate the whole group in a similar fashion?