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Hi there! I am illustrating a children's book and currently in the process of preparing a test image to submit (as a print ready PDF) to the printers, with their specifications. I am doing all my drawing in Procreate (ipad) and then sending, as a PSD with all layers intact, to my mac (through drop box) to change to CYMK, hopefully to embed the fonts (a must for the printers) and then to save as a PDF. I am following the steps below. When I come to try and open my PDF in acrobat it says "could not open, either an unsupported file or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)" Here are the steps I am taking: 1. Drawing the image in Procreate. Saving this as a PSD with all layers still. Adding to my dropbox. 2. Opening this file in affinity photo on my Mac. 3. Saving under a new name to make sure I don't lose the PSD. 4. Using the text tool (I have been advised to use the frame text setting) to write my text in a new layer. 5. Going to file export – PDF for print preset then clicking "more". 6. Choosing raster DPI 300. Choosing colour space – CYMK. Un-selecting JPEG compression and saving. 7. This is when I go to check in Acrobat that the fonts are embedded, the colour is correct and the image is clear at 100% but it will not let me open the file. Any idea where I am going wrong? I am under time constraints so any help or advise would be greatly appreciated. I am a bit of a newby to affinity so any directions would be great. I am also anxious to make sure the black turns out black as I know when converting RGB to CYMK there can be some issues with this so any advise there would be great too. Thank you, Kate