Unnecessary preflight warning

[anweid]

The German Affinity Publisher 1.9.2.1035 for Windows behaves as follows:

• The attached document contains two placed PDFs containing vectors only: The table at the left was cropped, the image at the right retains its original form.
• The red objects were manually inserted with Publisher itself.
• The preflight check complains twice that the table will be rasterised on export due to two reasons.
• The wonderful thing is: The table is not rasterised on export, which of course should stay that way.
• The only things that are (correctly) rasterised are the white glows around the red objects.

Since the table is not rasterised on export (which is desirable), it would be nice if no corresponding warning would be shown during preflight.

Andreas Weidner

PreflightMessage.pdf PreflightMessage.afpub

[Joachim_L]

I get not the same warnings as the embedded placed PDF is missing or broken.

The warning with the adjustments seems to be wrong, but you can try to remove the second warning by adapting the PDF passthrough level in your Preflight profile.

[anweid]

OK, thanks – I didn't know about the possibility of adjusting the passthrough level check.

Buuuut now the following things happen:

• If I set the preflight to check for PDF-1.7, the 'PDF-1.4' incompatibility warning vanishes, and the table is not rasterised on export to PDF-1.7. Fine – that sounds logical.
• If a set the preflight to check for PDF/X-4, the incompatibility warning appears again, and if I then export to PDF/X-4, the table is still not rasterised (which is wonderful, but then the preflight warning seems to be useless).
• If I set the preflight to check for any other PDF/X type, the incompatibility warning appears, and when exporting to that format, the table is still not rasterised, but a lot of other things are (everything that lies behind the surrounding rectangle of any Publisher object using a white glow).
• Try as I might, the table is never rasterised (wonderful!). Therefore, I still think that both preflight warnings should not appear.

Since the original second warning can only be seen properly if the original file is available, it is attached now.

Andreas Weidner

1MHzCheck4-partlist2.pdf

[Joachim_L]

13 minutes ago, anweid said:

If a set the preflight to check for PDF/X-4, the incompatibility warning appears again,

I am not into the code, but I would guess that the passthrough level simply checks if the PDF version placed is lower than the PDF version in the preflight. X4 is here PDF version 1.6, which is lower than 1.7 and therefore issues the warning.

But I agree, that here is place for improvement.