Chul Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Just wondering if I'm the only one who dreads exporting a file to a .pdf? Should I have to try export to .pdf a couple times before it all looks good? You can see what settings I'm using in the attached file. The text is the main issue; I tried to convert to curves but that looked even worse. & then images have outlines that shouldn't be there & aren't there in the Affinity file.. the logo (a .png) always gets either a white outline to everything or else the one green line turns out to be gray. Do any of you have some tried & true tips? Unfortunately I can't upload my file here, but would be willing to send the Affinity file & .pdf to the staff. If this a known bug & being improved upon, I'm willing to live with it until you can get it fixed. Just thought maybe there is an answer to my problem that I'm missing. Thanks! -Chul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chul Posted December 6, 2019 Author Share Posted December 6, 2019 Rasterization is now my friend. If I let it rasterize everything instead of unsupported properties, it looks perfect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etdronehome Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 I have spent the better part of a day and a half trying to get my photos to look good in an exported Apub pdf. You solved the problem. Thanks Rich Chul 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chul Posted December 16, 2019 Author Share Posted December 16, 2019 @Etdronehome, I'm glad it solved the problem for you! I've spent way too much time with .pdf's and their exporting quirks already... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chul Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 On 12/6/2019 at 10:22 AM, Chul said: Rasterization is now my friend. If I let it rasterize everything instead of unsupported properties, it looks perfect! & now I'm back to the same old struggle because I don't want everything rasterized. you can see the differences it's doing once I export & then open my .pdf. Do any of you have any tips to share? Need more info before you can? Feel free to just ask what you need to know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted February 19, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 19, 2020 Sorry for the delayed response Chul, could you please provide a copy of your Affinity document so I can look into this for you? Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chul Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 Thanks for your response @Dan C. Do you have a Dropbox link or something, please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted February 19, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 19, 2020 Of course https://www.dropbox.com/request/yq2eAbmYGy2HhgrySGoY Chul 1 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chul Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 Uploaded now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted February 19, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 19, 2020 Thanks for your files! What app are you using to preview these exported PDFs please? I'm not seeing the same results here with the PDF you've provided, or the PDF I've generated from your .afpub document. Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chul Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 Sorry for the late response, was out for lunch. Just Adobe Reader XI. You're thinking it might just be the .pdf viewer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted February 20, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 20, 2020 No problem at all 15 hours ago, Chul said: Just Adobe Reader XI. You're thinking it might just be the .pdf viewer? Thanks for letting me know, this is a common complaint with relatively small sized PDFs/vector objects - as certain PDF viewers will try to enhance how thin objects appear whilst viewing the PDF and this can cause rounding errors which is what you're seeing in your screenshots. If you open Adobe Reader, then go to Edit>Preferences>Page Display and untick Enhance Thin Lines, this should mean these characters in your PDF display correctly, regardless of zoom level in the reader - This is covered further in the below post https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/thick-letter-l-in-pdf/m-p/1311607?page=3 I hope this clears things up! Chul 1 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chul Posted February 20, 2020 Author Share Posted February 20, 2020 Thank you so much @Dan C! That definitely fixed the problem, what an easy solution! That would also explain the mystery of it looking okay printed but not digitally. Thanks again for your time & help! I can't wait to export to .pdfs now. Have a good day! -Chul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted February 20, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 20, 2020 I'm glad to hear this, happy to help! Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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