Exporting to vector PDF in Designer does not export mask

[james948]

Any ideas why this is? I can't work it out. 

[james948]

I don't suppose anyone can help? 

[MEB]

Hi james948,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
That's a bug. Do you mind attaching the afdesign file as well please? I can provide an upload link if you wish to keep the file private - just let me know.

Thread moved to Designer Bugs found on MacOS section.

[james948]

Voila. 

Demo for Affinity.afdesign

[MEB]

Thanks for the file. Issue logged to be looked at.

[james948]

Damn, I was really hoping it wasn't a bug; just a setting that was messed up my end. 

Can you replicate it your end? It's a fairly large bug to have gone unnoticed so I'm wondering whether I should make a new user account on my mac and try it again. 

I am on a deadline. 

 

[james948]

Seems like it may be an old bug/issue? 

 

 

 

[MEB]

This is caused by the Rasterise to Nothing setting you have set up.

[james948]

Just now, MEB said:

This is caused by the Rasterise to Nothing setting.

Is it not possible to export as a pdf while keeping a clipping mask as a vector?

[MEB]

I'm afraid currently not but why don't you use the group directly with the colour you want (without the red rectangle)?

[james948]

Because I'm using symbols to change multiple colours at once and demo them. 

This is really frustrating; shouldn't there be an alert on export to tell me it isn't possible? Or perhaps Raster: nothing should be greyed out when you have a clipping mask?

I discovered the issue half way through the project but ploughed on because I assumed it must be a bug. 

Is this a feature you're going to add?

Do you know any work arounds?

Can we move this out of the bug report section so I can get some advice from other people in the community? 

Thanks. 

 

[james948]

3 minutes ago, MEB said:

I'm afraid not but why don't you use the group directly with the colour you want (without the red rectangle)?

(The project I uploaded isn't the real full project which has about a hundred of these cards and about 25 symbols with different colours etc. Happy to upload the full one if you can advise a better way to achieve what I want to (changing a colour in one place and having changes cascade to all other cards which use the same colour)

[MEB]

I didn't know this wasn't working until now. I understand your issue. Let me see if/what's already logged and check this with a little more time.

[james948]

Thanks. happy to upload the main project; it's very possible there's an easier way of achieving what I want. 

[lepr]

2 hours ago, james948 said:

changing a colour in one place and having changes cascade to all other cards which use the same colour

Try using global colours: https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/pages/Clr/globalClr.html

[james948]

1 hour ago, anon2 said:

Try using global colours: https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/pages/Clr/globalClr.html

Perfect. Exactly what I was after. 

I do think this is still a glaring problem though (Masking & exporting to PDF without raster) if Affinity could take a look. 

[h0wi3]

Is this still an ongoing issue? I am struggling to export even with global colours?

[kristiand]

Hi,

I had the same issue and couldn't get the mask to be exported correctly. After testing all of the different PDF formats I found out that if you select the PDF/X-4 format, it works flawlessly.
Btw, for the option "Rasterisation" select "Unsupported ..." and it will work.

Cheers!