Exporting to PDF/PNG causes Designer to hang

[Tullywhistles]

Hello All,

I'm on an M1 Mac.  Latest Designer update installed (1.10.1).

The attached file hangs Designer when I export to PDF or PNG, though I have been successful with JPG.  After initiating the export command it acts like it worked but then the next command brings up the beach ball of death and the file is never written.  There were imbedded PDF's which I thought might be the problem, but I have removed those and replaced them with jpgs.

I sure would appreciate any ideas!

Thanks much,

Erik

Copper Ridge Master Plan.afdesign

[Hangman]

The issue is actually caused by the beige 0.6 pt border that sits around the main graphics. It is currently set as a dashed line (which I don't think is intentional) and for some weird reason this is causing AD to hang when exporting the file to PDF resulting in the file either not being written at all or taking an absolute age to write so this looks like a potential Bug.

If you simply change it from a dashed line to a solid line the problem goes away and the file exports as expected.

 

It actually has nothing to do with the images in your file, though I noticed your images use a mixture of different ICC profiles and resolutions resulting in some uneccessarily large file sizes and some files with a placed dpi that falls below 300. The majority of images are sRGB but one is Display P3 and another has no ICC profile at all.

 

Depending on the intended final output for the file, it may be a better option to size your images prior to placing them in AD so you end up with something more like this, all using the same ICC profile, but that all depends on how the file is going to be used?

 

Copper Ridge Master Plan v2.afdesign

[Tullywhistles]

You're amazing!  Thanks for dialing that in!  When I changed the dash settings to zero (because it inserted dashed from a previous command) I assumed that it automatically set it to a continuous line.  I'll remember to do it the correct way next time.

As to the images... thank you.  Yes, drag and drop is more important than output quality at this point.  I'll remember to check resource manager when I do have something going to a serious print shop.

Cheers!

Erik

[Sean P]

Hi Tullywhistles,
This is something we do have logged with development, however thank you for attaching your file! I will get this passed on to development and get the issue updated with your comments.

Thanks again for letting us know.

[Cealcrest]

I have this issue as well, although I have not taken the time to check if it is related to the dashed line.