PDF export, text with drop shadow + certain gradients get rasterized

[Paul]

If I create a text block and give it a drop shadow that text block will get rasterized if I export the file to PDF. That reduces the quality of the PDF significantly (no sharp edges, text not selectable).

Is that normal or will that change in a later version of Affinity Designer?

 

Also shapes with certain gradients (elliptical, conical) get rasterized without a vector clipping path. That means the shape no longer has a sharp edge.

Will that change?

 

Thank you! :)

Rasterization.afdesign

Rasterization.pdf

[Dave Harris]

Yes, we will be improving export in future free updates.

 

Incidentally, that text gets rasterised because the drop shadow has "Fill knocks out shadow" checked, and the knock-out is more than our current exporter can handle. If you uncheck it, the text remains as text.

[Paul]

Thanks a lot! :)

 

Affinity Designer certainly looks promising.

[adib]

+1 from me – whenever I export this into PDF it gets rasterized.

BSChatBubbleBackgroundLeft.zip

[toitoine]

Many thanks for the tip of uncheking "Fills knock out shadow". I was looking for the soluce for few hours.

 

I had the problem with pictures and forms too.

 

The forum and community is very helpful, thank you  :)