Strange PDF Export-no matter which one-x1a, x3, x4, print, reduced, …

[Uwe-R-aus-B]

Hi there, sometimes I get strange PDF-exported results, please watch screenshots. It seems that some layers produce kind of effects and these are not intended at all.

Do I have to take are of these elements before I place or paste it onto my document, I later want to export for print? Of course the document is prepared as CMYK and so on.

Working on MAC OS10.15.6 Catalina working with Affinity Publisher 1.8.4 but had this error in previous versions as well.

First time I encountered this strange behavior, I called for support and get asked to show some example - well, here it is.

What am I missing, what do  have to do -  I am quite sure, that there is something on my side, I have to take care of but not knowing what.

Exporting as pdf/X-3 seems to be the most reliable version - as soon as I include bleed areas, then the X-3 disappears. PDF/x-4 looks strange

also "for export", "for print", "reduced",  

Thais in advance,

Uwe

2020_Eintrittskarte_Konzert-3-A-for-export.pdf 2020_Eintrittskarte_Konzert-3-A-for-print.pdf 2020_Eintrittskarte_Konzert-3-A-reduced.pdf 2020_Eintrittskarte_Konzert-3-A-X4.pdf 2020_Eintrittskarte_Konzert-3-A-X3-incl-bleed-areas.pdf

[DWright]

Is it possible for you to post a copy of your .afpub file 

[Uwe-R-aus-B]

Sure - here it is.

Thanks in advance,

Uwe

2020_Eintrittskarte_Konzert-3-A.afpub

[Joachim_L]

It should help if you rasterise the wrong image before export.

[Uwe-R-aus-B]

Great, though it still looks strange and kind of bleached out when rasterized with the option ""print".

But great, it works, many thanks - As the original file two years ago was done in Indesign, maybe the Adobe app handles those files differently?

Anyway, yours did the job and in some more cases to help me have an eye on that "rasterized" option - btw, what is "rasterize and trimm" for?

Very kind Regards,

Uwe

 

Obviously no bug. But still the question why pdf/x3 handles it quite well? 

2020_Eintrittskarte_Konzert-3-B-print-rasterized.pdf

Edited September 29, 2020 by Uwe-R-aus-B
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[Joachim_L]

15 hours ago, Uwe-R-aus-B said:

Anyway, yours did the job and in some more cases to help me have an eye on that "rasterized" option - btw, what is "rasterize and trimm" for?

I hope this is the correct explanation. Rasterise only is just reducing the elements to a Pixel Layer. If you use Rasterise & Trim, the element is reduced to a Pixel Layer PLUS everything that is outside the canvas / document is cut off / trimmed.

15 hours ago, Uwe-R-aus-B said:

Obviously no bug. But still the question why pdf/x3 handles it quite well?

Perhaps every variant of PDF specifications support different features? But this is for Serif to answer.

[Gabe]

Hi all,

It's something we've seen before but could never replicate it from scratch. Somehow, that image reports as being CMYK with an sRGB icc profile. What's interesting is that I extracted the orange image layer and I get an almost inverted , correct RGB/8 sRGB file. Did you create this document from scratch? did you import it as a different format? Rasterising the Image layer will get rid of all it's colourspace and convert it to the working colour space, so that's why it shows up correctly after this operation. 

[Uwe-R-aus-B]

No, I didn´t create from scratch - I got this, inside an InDesign Document - and as a pdf.

As I still have InD on my "old" Mac I exported it and worked with it in Publisher in order to get rid of any Adobe Apps.

So this was also a testing product - as rasterizing did the job, I am glad and also very happy that the community responded very very quickly.

That was really helpful, I can tell you. In future I keep on telling my clients not to move between designers in one job - that was the case here,

that´s how all this misinterpreting elements stuff came along.

Kind Regards,

Uwe

No, I didn´t create from scratch - I got this, inside an InDesign Document - and as a pdf.

As I still have InD on my "old" Mac I exported it and worked with it in Publisher in order to get rid of any Adobe Apps.

So this was also a testing product - as rasterizing did the job, I am glad and also very happy that the community responded very very quickly.

That was really helpful, I can tell you. In future I keep on telling my clients not to move between designers in one job - that was the case here,

that´s how all this misinterpreting elements stuff came along.

Kind Regards,

Uwe

[Gabe]

Any chance you can attach the original Indd/idml file?