DawnM Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I am new to Affinity. I have been working to start with moving files to a map spread in Affinity Designer that was created with Illustrator. The ad files that need to be added to the spread are from Publisher saved as PDFs. Though in the conversion process from Indesign I have had to find work arounds on some things such as fonts that work in Publisher but for some reason do not in Designer and for one ad I had to just place the publisher file to retain Tab information in Designer. In this case the SJ image and the golfball image were imported TIFF files, I have also tried them as PNG. The backgrounds are transparent in Affinity Photo. A PDF exported from Publisher of this ad looks fine with no darker bkg around those two images, but when I place it on the map spread in Designer as a PDF and create a PDF of the spread I get the darker background around those two images. I don't know what else to try. It would be nice to have a clipping option in Publisher. Thank you for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 In the meantime since I have some time I recreated the SJ type with the pen tool in Designer which took care of the issue with it. In Affinity photo I did a clipping path for the golfball image as shown below for example, saved as tiff and placed it, but it made no difference along with placing the Affinity photo file itself. Neither resulted in no darker bkg around the image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted August 20, 2020 Staff Share Posted August 20, 2020 Hi Dawn, Could you attach the afpub file that you are exporting as a PDF? If you could also make sure the images are embedded, i'll see if i spot whats happening. To embed the images, you can click Document>Resource Manager and any that show as linked, just select in the list and click on the Embed button. Then save the file and attach it here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted August 20, 2020 Author Share Posted August 20, 2020 Iron Play 7:20.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted August 20, 2020 Author Share Posted August 20, 2020 I ended up just recreating the ad in Designer since its a pretty simple ad and then there was no problem with it in the pdf created of the map spread. Something else for people to look at if they have this problem I found by accident this morning since I'm one to keep digging when there is a problem to be solved. When stokrg asked for the publisher file I thought I would also send a cropped corner pdf with the ad from the large map spread. I had been previewing the map PDF in Acrobat Reader. I have Acrobat Professional on a older computer where I could do the cropping. When I opened the PDF map in it there was no darker bkg around the golfball image. So could it be a rendering issue with Acrobat Reader and it is the most current version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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