findtheting Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 (edited) hi there, i have a problem. i´m an architect and get site-plans from the feds to get a certificate for new building sites. the site-plans come in .pdf. i import them in vectorworks, make my designs on it and export them in 300 dpi resolution as .pdf. after that i place them in affinity publisher all in a row and want to export them. now the checklist says, the resolution is to low. but the pdf has 300 dpi. so i can´t export/print my plans all together combined in one pdf. i never had problems doing so in adobe indesign. what can i do? Edited December 15, 2020 by findtheting Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 15, 2020 Posted December 15, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Sorry, but I don't understand. You use vectorworks to create a PDF. Why not just use that one? Why do you need to put that PDF into Publisher and create a different PDF? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
findtheting Posted December 15, 2020 Author Posted December 15, 2020 I create my plans in Vectorworks and export them in pdf. after I load about 20 plans (mostly in DIN A3) into indesign and put them together in one pdf. So I can change row or put some markers or text on it. I want to get away from adobe and I really like, what I can see in Affinity. It´s better, faster, more structure, more intuitive and clean. But this is a small problem and I can´t find a solution in internet/forums... I found out how to change settings of the checklist. but by unanchoring e.g. the preset minimum resolution of 72dpi, the export of affinity has still a problem with my placed pdf. Even if my pdf was 450 dpi. Maybe it is a bug. See the screenshots. Red one is the pdf after import. the plan is how it should look like and the checklist shows what affinity is trying to tell me. Yes I could use any other program to do so, or online combine pdfs... but I don´t understand why affinity is telling me resolution is to low... Quote
Staff DWright Posted December 16, 2020 Staff Posted December 16, 2020 Hi @findtheting, Instead of using the place command you can open your first PDF file then from the Document menu use the Add Pages from File to insert your next PDF file after the previous one and it will keep the quality of your PDF file. Quote
findtheting Posted December 16, 2020 Author Posted December 16, 2020 (edited) no change... same problem... I think it´s an affinity bug. checklist says resolution too low. Edited December 16, 2020 by findtheting Quote
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