gaufde Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 I just found some very weird behavior while trying to print out a document from Publisher. I was printing my document and noticed that on the cover some of the text was printing with a worse quality than others: See how the first two lines of text appear bold? That is the issue, they are all supposed to be the same. So, I went hunting to try and find the problem. I tried exporting a pdf and printing from preview on my Mac. Doing that made all the text uniform, but the quality was bad for all three lines instead of just the two. After a bunch of trouble shooting, I noticed that on my document the image overlapped the first two lines of text that were having problems: So, I tried cropping the image so that there was no overlap and then printed it again. And...it worked! Now, I have no idea why the image overlapping the text would make any difference. So, I thought that I would share this here to see if this is a bug that can be reproduced on other equipment than what I am using. I have files that I can share if needed, however they are larger than the 512MB upload limit. Publisher 1.7.3 (trial version so I haven't tested the beta yet) Mac OS 10.14.6 HP M750 LaserJet Enterprise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 The image contains transparency, so under certain output conditions (PDF-X/1 for example) the underlying text is (necessarily rasterized. To avoid this: Place the text above the image.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaufde Posted November 25, 2019 Author Share Posted November 25, 2019 54 minutes ago, mac_heibu said: The image contsins transparency, so under certain output conditions (PDF-X/1 for example) the underlying text is (necessarily rasterized. To avoid this: Place the text above the image.. This is sort of what I was thinking. However, the text is above the image and so I don't see why it would need to be rasterized. I have text above an image on another page of this document and everything works fine there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 In this case, it may be related to the „group“ on top, the content of which we don’t know. Could you please share the document with us (a small document containing the image and text should be enough)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaufde Posted November 25, 2019 Author Share Posted November 25, 2019 The group up top is just two text layers that aren't interacting with the image at all. I tried playing around with that as well, but ungrouping the text had no effect on the images. The files are too large to upload here and I don't want to modify them too much, so I have created a dropbox link where you can download them. I have included the one with the problem, one that I have modified so that the image doesn't overlap, and the image that is linked from affinity photo. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s0mo6ykbdpqrrx5/AABPxzn1QLKGeQLmpsThE3pDa?dl=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Works fine here exporting to pdf/x-1a. Try printing the attatched or making the pdf yourself and printing, preferably from Reader. If that works, I would say don't print direct from Affinity applications. Bread Zine (Does not print properly).pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaufde Posted November 25, 2019 Author Share Posted November 25, 2019 Thanks for testing this! I just tried your exported pdf and the also used the pdf/x-1a preset to try exporting it myself. I printed each from Preview and both worked fine. However, when I was testing earlier, exporting using the pdf(for print) preset did not work well. I'm not sure why these would give different results, but I guess that is good to know. I will keep your suggestion in mind to print from other applications. However, I am still interested to see if my weird results can be reproduced by anyone. We have figured out a work around, now it might be nice to see if there is a printing issue in Publisher than can be fixed in a future update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 It prints fine to both my PostScript laser printers. Likely the issue is your print driver's ability to flatten transparency. PDF/X1-a is a flattened transparency pdf model and Affinity applications handle the flattening during export to that pdf type. Choosing to print and sending the page as a bitmap may also work, I dunno. fwiw, I rarely print direct from any software, instead prefer to go to pdf and print from Acrobat or Adobe Reader after (usually) a brief review of the pdf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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