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PDF Passthrough for Batch Jobs


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Hi Serif,

the new PDF passthrough feature is quite remarkable, but I think the Batch Job feature would really benefit from having this as an option as well. Right now, batch conversions in Affinity Photo are not really suitable for PDF documents since you need to have all the fonts installed that are used in the PDF to get predictable results. A simple PDF passthrough checkbox in the New Batch Job dialog would be enough. And while we're at it: Why do I have to place a PDF document to get the passthrough option? Shouldn't this also be available when opening a PDF file?

Greetings
kaffeeundsalz

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10 minutes ago, kaffeeundsalz said:

Why do I have to place a PDF document to get the passthrough option? Shouldn't this also be available when opening a PDF file?

If you Open the file, it has to be interpreted. You need the fonts, and the Affinity application has to perform a complete layout of the data. Passthrough simply does what it says. It lets a PDF flow through the Affinity application completely untouched, from the source into an output PDF file.

The same would have to apply to New Batch Job.

Think of PassThrough as a step along the way to more complete support, where Affinity would be able to use the embedded fonts in a PDF to perform the layout.

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Hi @walt.farrell,

I really don't get it. I do know how PDF passthrough is different from interpreting a PDF file. And I see that Affinity interprets a PDF on opening. I just don't see why this should be a necessary behavior given that a placed PDF with passthrough enabled perfectly exports as raster images as well, with all the fonts correct etc. All I ask is to be able to do this in batch, too – rather than creating a new document with the same dimensions as the PDF, place the PDF inside of that document, go to the Export dialog and set PNG as the output format to finally get a result. And then repeat this for each PDF.

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