Rebecca Stewart Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 (edited) Hi there, I am trying to export my first Publisher document to print (see image 1) - to preview before I send to print. The images (.PSDs) come up looking very strange and it doesn't matter if I delete then and replace, or 'replace document' they come up looking odd on the exported PDF (see image 2). The document is 24pp and about half the images look OK. The other half are either totally corrupted or they look like the images below. It could be that I don't understand file formats or embedding v linking and so on. It's the sort of thing I do with no probs on InDesign. I'm new to Affinity so appreciate any tips or links to relevant tutorials and so on. My system is Mac OS Mojave - 10.14.6, MacBook Pro 2017. Edited: I am on the latest version of Affinity too - updated the other day. Many thanks in advance. Rebecca S Edited August 6, 2020 by Rebecca Stewart Added more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Stewart Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 Hello would there be anyone who could help me with this please? My guess is that it's something about how I'm saving the document in Affinity Photo - either that or something to do with linked images. Any tips would be helpful, thank you. Rebecca S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted August 10, 2020 Staff Share Posted August 10, 2020 It may be the levels adjustments and converting between 2 color spaces causing the problem which I will need to investigate further. Rasterizing the images in publisher (Layers Panel, Right Click, Rasterise) - seems to generate better exports Dan C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Stewart Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 Thank you for your response Pauls! Yes I've tried that and the result is about 1000 x better! On the odd one though, I'm getting a fine grey line around the image (see attached). Would that be poor cropping do you think? If you have any ideas or tips about working in two colour spaces that would be great. I feel like I'm missing something really obvious, I just don't know what it might be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted August 11, 2020 Staff Share Posted August 11, 2020 the faint line could be the down to the PDF viewer - I don't get that on my export. Which PDF viewer are you using ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Stewart Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 Hi Pauls - It's Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Is there a better one for viewing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted August 11, 2020 Staff Share Posted August 11, 2020 I still dont see the lines in my export, Could you post a small sample PDF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Stewart Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 Can you see the little grey boxes around the figure in the top left hand corner? Would it be something to do with rasterising the images before export? Sample_spead.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 If you deactivate "Image smoothing / antialiasing" (maybe wrong wording) in the Acrobat preferences the lines will vanish ... but this can't be the real solution. Did you cover some areas of the images with white elements? See attached image from Photoshop. If you did so, maybe you should manually "clean" the images instead of doing it the quick and dirty way. 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...
Rebecca Stewart Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 One thing that could be related is that one I rasterised the images, the file now has (pixel) after the name in the layers panel - instead of (linked). Once the file got (pixel) it disappeared from the Resources Manager entirely. Also, the option to 'replace document' - either in the resources manger or on the Toolbar - has also disappeared. Now my Resources Manager is empty and I can't replace any of these files. Does rasterising mean they're embedded in the doc and can't be moved. Once I deleted the file entirely and it came back as (linked) and is now the only thing in the Manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Stewart Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 Ha! Yes I did Joachim! My dodginess exposed I will certainly do that. Was about to do so but....trying to get away with it. Your option on 'image smoothing' also worked so I think it is...solved? Thank you all :):):) Joachim_L 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted August 11, 2020 Staff Share Posted August 11, 2020 yes rasterising is fixing the image as you see it so removes the link. I think the lines are down to the viewer option (maybe even app version too) - but they do correspond to the white areas as shown above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Stewart Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 Thank you Pauls for helping too. I know that bit more now!I like to know the ins and outs so I don't do the same silly things again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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