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Cannot export pdf - nothing works


Rabari

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Having big problems exporting to pdf; the dreaded and very unhelpful  "An error occurred while exporting to:…”

Version 1.8.6. MacOS 10.15.7

File is normal A3, 20 pages, jpegs, tiffs, pngs – nothing unusual. Tried normal troubleshooting: restarting, giving more memory, software rendering, looking for bad links, strange graphics, old broken fonts, etc but no luck.

No pdf preset works, built-in or own. Strange anomaly: Export window never finishes calculating Estimated File Size.

Beta version opens file, but crashes on trying to choose any pdf export preset.

Now a deadline is looming. Cannot afford to loose this gig.

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Ok, uploaded now. 

Maybe a contributing factor to problems: this is a file which has been "re-used" a couple of years, where I open up the file from last year, empty out old stuff to put in the new. Could there be some old cruft left? If I remember correctly this project has had similar problems earlier,  but they resolved with a new version of the app. Might even be that the original file was made with one of the pre-release betas…

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Ok, thanks! Strange combination indeed, for files coming out of Affinity Photo :10_wink: Sorry, untouched photos. Why do people scan B/W photos in RGB?

Could problematic files like these be flagged in Pre-flight, perhaps?

 

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The exact same thing happened to me just now. The other day I created a new document in AP 1.8.6 on Catalina 10.5.7, and exported it without issues. 

Today I opened a document created in an earlier version, 1.8.x, and met the "An error occurred when exporting ..." message. Tried all possible PDF export settings and made sure that all photos were the same profile/ICC as the document settings (Adobe RGB), and checked that no fonts were reported missing in Fonts Manager. The document is a modest 32 page A5 with nine pictures in it. When exported in the previous version of AP, the one it was created with, the PDF export went without problems. 

Scratching my head, hoping for a solution ... 

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Sorry for replying late. I downloaded the beta, opened the document and found two picture text wraps missing, but apart from that it opened and exported to pdf perfectly. 

So, whatever your dev team did there, please ask them to hold on to it! :)

A great many thanks from Sweden, and keep up the good work. Love your Affinity apps.

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