Blank background is printing black

[Dennison]

Rather strange and unexpected output when printing.

some eps drawings - all created on and exported from AD - are printing with a black background even though there is no background.

Two screenshots attached (apologies for the poor quality but I think the issue is clear).

 

Any insights?

Is this some setting?

Or a bug?

Only happens on some eps drawings. 

thanks for help,

Dennison

[Wosven]

I'm not sure EPS supports transparency, you should try other formats like TIFF.

[Dennison]

Thanks. 

I think I need EPS for printed books. Won't TIFF pixelate?

It's only doing it with some drawings - all of them have the space outside the object drawn, but not all files are printing black.

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, Dennison said:

Won't TIFF pixelate?

TIFFs can pixelate in a digital format if you zoom in, but you won't be zooming in a printed book. So why would they pixelate there?

[Wosven]

I suppose those are vectors, or EPS isn't needed. In this case, you can use PDF, perhaps SVG (check the result), of Affinity apps formats.

And as @walt.farrell said, TIFF will be pixelated only if they are small resolution and probably raster formats. 

I didn't check how vectors in TIFF files behave, since I don't need them now — I use PDF —, but it was a robust format and versatile when used in QXD (not so much in ID, strangely, for vectors).

[edit] And since some layer datas can be added with Affinity apps, so they can read them, I expect the format to be good [/edit]

[Dennison]

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions of workarounds. I'm still curious why it's only happening on some and not all eps files. 

Using pdf exports from AD would work but it would mean resizing and re-exporting 1000+ files from AD after the final, final layout of text and graphics is complete in AP.

 

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, Dennison said:

I'm still curious why it's only happening on some and not all eps files. 

Possibly if you give us some actual files we can tell you.

[Dennison]

I can do that but it's 300 + pages and 1000+ files

I'll re-export the affected drawings and also try different export formats. Just wondered if I might have some setting inadvertently set incorrectly .

 

Thanks for the quick replies and suggestions. Much appreciated.

[Dennison]

Sure.

Here is the AP file and one drawing. It's from page 313

Oil Sender 3T.eps MDB2 MASTER July28.afpub

[Dennison]

Update:

Started exporting drawings from AD to AP in svg format BUT it has made no difference in printing - the area of the frame still prints in solid black.

 

Any suggestions welcome.

[firstdefence]

If I print from Affinity Publisher and for the sake of consistency, the same page 301 I don't get the black blocks. I'm on Mac HS 10.13.6 and use a HP Officejet 8620, red text is pale grey because HP are being dickish about my cartridges being compatibles and asking me to report it as fraudulent, once the cartridges have run out the printer is going to meet Mr 5lb lump hammer and the pick-axe kid lol! 

Anyway I digress, so it looks like the issue might be with the printer, get a friend, family member or accost a stranger to try printing off a page or two.

 

[David in Яuislip]

I relinked 'Oil Sender 3T.eps' on page 313, it prints to paper and pdf well
But, and this is where the story really starts, I also placed another copy with the Picture Frame Rectangle Tool. The border is set as dashed but this doesn't show in Publisher, likewise the adjacent blue Rectangle. The prints show dashed lines but the red one has glitches on the bottom edge, also it's no longer a stroke and has lost its association with the image. So I did the extras again on a pdf of p313 and it's ok
I have no idea what's going on but that file looks rather compromised to me
Finally, a few of those threads are left handed, I hope that's intended

MDB2 MASTER July28p313.pdf MDB2 MASTER July28p313-2.pdf

[Dennison]

Thank you, very helpful.  Yes you are right about the threads - well observed.

The file might well be compromised as it has so many linked images and is 400 pages.

Any way to clean up the file? Re-build? Many of the drawings will need to be tweaked to make stroke thickness more uniform so not a big task to re-link/embed them all.

Thank you for the help,

 

Dennison  

[David in Яuislip]

51 minutes ago, Dennison said:

Any way to clean up the file?

Well I had a genius of an idea to export to pdf then use that as the master, that failed

I think you need one of the forum heavyweights to look at this, it's beyond me

[Dennison]

Thanks David.

 

nothing ventured, nothing gained.