Affinity Design export to PDF: layers messed up!

[RiccardoMarchi]

Trying to export to pdf an artwork with different layers,

i get pdf file with messed up layers: changed in order and nested and mixed with objects.

Please see attached files.

Can you help me?

prova.afdesign prova.pdf

[Paul Mc]

The layers appear as I would expect. Were you expecting something different? (I'm using yesterday's 1.9 release to test this).

[RiccardoMarchi]

Hi Paul Mc thank you for feedback.

I just downloaded the prova.pdf file and opened it with designer.

Attached you see the layers messed up.

 

[Paul Mc]

I see what you are saying. I think this is the importing of the PDF that is at fault and not the export which creates the PDF. Checking your PDF (I also created one from your source file too), it looks fine. When re-imported things look messed up. Also, which version are you using? Your PDF looks like this when re-imported:

Mine (AD1.9 -> PDF export) looks like this:

I'm pretty sure this is a bug so probably worth reporting.

For info, 1.9 also shows this as the source file:

[RiccardoMarchi]

I'm using 1.9.0.

I think i have to use a different software to check layers on exported pdf files, other then re-importing in Affinity Design, even if is weird, or bad, if you rely on pdf source files only...

Thank you.

If is a bug, i hope someone from development will read this topic!

[ctekk]

it's weird - had exactly the same. Seems like an AD2/AD Bug.