m@t11m5 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Multi-page document with images on each. When exported to PDF some pages have grey fine lines around the edges of the image within the page. When I click on the image, stroke is 0. Line and Fill colour are white/non print. With preview on you cant see the lines unless you zoom in, then you can briefly see them, then they go? IF I copy and paste a whole page with the problem into a new document, the problem goes away. Did a search on the forum, but couldn't see anything. Any suggestions gratefully received... Thanks Slightly frustrated ex indesign user! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m@t11m5 Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 If I remove the crop around an images the problem goes away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Could you post examples? PDF and Publisher. 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...
m@t11m5 Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 Attached. Thanks 191001 Crop issue.pdf 191001 Crop issue.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Can you embed the images in the Publisher document please? All I can say for now, the lines won't print (at least on my printer) and the lines vanish in Acrobat Pro when you turn off anti-aliasing / smoothing vectors and bitmaps in Acrobat preferences. 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...
m@t11m5 Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 I've embedded the files this time. Thanks for you help. My clients view my documents electronically so some setting which would remove this from the PDF would be ideal, rather then asking them to change their adobe reader settings... 191001 Crop issue.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, m@t11m5 said: I've embedded the files this time. No, you linked them. Visit the Resource Manager and make them embedded. 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...
m@t11m5 Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 Ha Newbie... attached and embedded 191001 Crop issue.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted January 24, 2020 Staff Share Posted January 24, 2020 Hi @m@t11m5 Which PDF export setting are you using? If you click File>Export>PDF and click on the More button and set Rasterise to Nothing. You should find it exports fine m@t11m5, Kabeljauws and Tony Ennis 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m@t11m5 Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 Thats it, solved! Thanks stokerg. I knew it had to be a tick-box somewhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debatosh Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 I had similar problems with exported pdf in affinity photo. What i did was to export it as high res tiff first and then print to pdf using free foxit reader. The export to tiff does not allow those grey lines in the exported tiff file and since tiff is printed to pdf the resulting pdf file is free of those. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ennis Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 On 1/24/2020 at 9:51 AM, stokerg said: Hi @m@t11m5 Which PDF export setting are you using? If you click File>Export>PDF and click on the More button and set Rasterise to Nothing. You should find it exports fine I never would have figured it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royphotog Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 I know this is an old thread but I had the same issue with a business card with an image. I found that when I set Rasterize to Nothing my image disappeared in the PDF but when I set it everything it then produced a PDF without any lines. All was good. this is in version 2 of AP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emlin_23 Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 I have the same issue happening. When I rasterize nothing it seriously messes up my layers but removes the lines. When I rasterize everything nothing changes. I cannot figure it out! rasterize everything.pdf rasterize nothing.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Hi @emlin_23 and welcome to the forum, Would you be able to upload your Affinity file, even if just the individual page causing the issue, so we can take a look at what might be going on here? Quote Affinity Designer 2.4.2 | Affinity Photo 2.4.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 Affinity Designer Beta 2.5.0 (2402) | Affinity Photo Beta 2.5.0 (2402) | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.5.0 (2402) Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.7.4, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emlin_23 Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Sure thing, thanks! Here it is. GrayLines.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 Hi @emlin_23, Thanks for your file... I'm not sure I understand the logic of why you want to export to PDF using rasterise nothing when your illustrations are raster-based images. Using Unsupported Properties will keep your text elements in vector format but your illustrations will always be rasterised since the source images are all raster-based. Could you let us know the logic for selecting rasterise nothing in terms of what you're expecting from the exported PDF. Quote Affinity Designer 2.4.2 | Affinity Photo 2.4.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 Affinity Designer Beta 2.5.0 (2402) | Affinity Photo Beta 2.5.0 (2402) | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.5.0 (2402) Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.7.4, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emlin_23 Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) @Hangman I tried rasterizing nothing because that's what someone earlier on this thread said was the solution to removing the gray crop lines. But as you say, it really doesn't make sense for what I'm doing, so I'm back to square 1 in terms of finding a solution for how to remove the gray lines without messing anything else up - so I'm sticking to the rasterize unsupported properties export setting. I did figure out a way to remove the gray lines but it's a bit involved. I've outlined my steps below. I'll be using this program a lot more for similar stuff though so if there's a more straightforward way to removing the gray crop lines when exporting to pdf that would be excellent to find out. 1. In affinity photo, auto white balance for the image in question 2. Click on flood select tool. Find the right tolerance to catch all subject matter and just select the white area 3. Flood select the white area next to where the gray line appears 4. Press delete (nothing happens visually but once I export to pdf again the gray lines have disappeared). Edited October 10, 2023 by emlin_23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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