F_Z Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Hi, using Affinity Designer 1.7.3.481 on Windows 10 Education 1803. When PDF-exporting a curve with an arrow head, the curve gets rasterized. It seems to be connected to having an arrow head, since the same object without arrow head does not get rasterized: arrowPdfExport.pdf I would expect the arrow-head curve to not get rasterized. Is this a bug? Does a workaround exist? I have also enclosed the afdesign file. Regards arrowPdfExport.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Can confirm this weird behaviour / bug. To prevent rasterisation, remove the fill from the lines with the arrowhead. F_Z 1 Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_Z Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 1 minute ago, Joachim_L said: Can confirm this weird behaviour / bug. To prevent rasterisation, remove the fill from the lines with the arrowhead. Perfect, thanks a lot for this workaround! Still, it would be great if this got fixed sooner or later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 In Designer 1.8 beta (I have not tried 1.7), the Fill of both lines is white, though the lines display as black. The exact fill color is H:0, S:0, L: 92, and perhaps the saturation of 0 is acting something like having an Opacity of 0 and causing rasterization upon export due to the export settings and the need to rasterize transparent objects based on those settings. I'm not sure why it only affects the line with the arrowhead. Sean P 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted January 15, 2020 Staff Share Posted January 15, 2020 Thanks F_Z, I'll get this passed on to development. In addition to the workaround Walt has said, turning Rasterise to 'Nothing' also lets it get exported correctly! F_Z 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 15 minutes ago, Sean P said: In addition to the workaround Walt has said Which workaround? As long as the line with the arrowhead has a fill - no matter what kind of fill - rasterisation is on. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted January 15, 2020 Staff Share Posted January 15, 2020 18 minutes ago, Joachim_L said: Which workaround? As long as the line with the arrowhead has a fill - no matter what kind of fill - rasterisation is on. Sorry I could have phrased that better. After Walt's finding removing the fill will allow it to export, which in the attached document's case will not change the look of the object. Joachim_L 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 20 hours ago, Joachim_L said: To prevent rasterisation, remove the fill from the lines with the arrowhead. OK, I thought it was about Walt's assumption about opacity. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 1 hour ago, Sean P said: After Walt's finding removing the fill Removing the Fill was actually @Joachim_L's workaround. I just commented on an oddity about the characteristics of the Fill, and speculated on what might be happening. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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