Paul Posted October 3, 2014 Posted October 3, 2014 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 Quote
Dave Harris Posted October 3, 2014 Posted October 3, 2014 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 1 Quote
Paul Posted October 3, 2014 Author Posted October 3, 2014 Thanks a lot! :) Affinity Designer certainly looks promising. Quote
adib Posted October 24, 2014 Posted October 24, 2014 +1 from me – whenever I export this into PDF it gets rasterized. BSChatBubbleBackgroundLeft.zip Quote
toitoine Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 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 :) Quote
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