big smile Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 In Affinity Publisher, I create color documents, and then: • Export them as Black and White PDFs • OR place them inside other Affinity Publisher documents that use a Black and White color space and then export as PDF. When I do this, any images that use a clipping mask will disappear in the final exported PDF. Bizarrely, this only happens if I place the image from inside Affinity Publisher 1.10. If I get a document that was originally created in Affinity Publisher 1.9 and open that document inside of 1.10 and then copy and paste and an image from that document into my Affinity Publisher 1.10 document, then it will work correctly. So I think there's a new bug with how Affinity Publisher 1.10 places images that is causing this disappearing image problem. If I recreate the whole document in Affinity 1.9 it works fine as well. Photos of the problem Here is my Document in Affinity. The dog is an Affinity Photo file that has a clipping mask. And here is how it looks when it exports as a black and white PDF: As you can see the Dog that was placed directly inside of Affinity 1.10 has disappeared. The dog that was copy and pasted from a document created in Affinity 1.9 works fine. Here is the export settings I am using. Here is how the images appear in resource manager: They are both the same image, but interestingly the dog pasted from 1.9 is listed as an "Affinity" document instead of "Affinity photo". Interestingly, the 1.9 Dog is a missing link. If I relink it, then it stops exporting correctly. Which again makes me think that there's something with how 1.10 brings in images that causes problems. If you can provide the private dropbox link, I can upload the files so you can try it for yourself. Gotta say between this and the "Linked Publisher documents get displayed as blank pages" issue, 1.10 has really destroyed my productivity! Tasks that used to take 2 mins, now take hours to diagnose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted October 4, 2021 Staff Share Posted October 4, 2021 Can you send me a sample file please ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big smile Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 3 hours ago, Pauls said: Can you send me a sample file please ? Do you have that dropbox link you usually put? If not, I can use other means. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted October 5, 2021 Staff Share Posted October 5, 2021 Here it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big smile Posted October 5, 2021 Author Share Posted October 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Pauls said: Here it is Thanks, I have uploaded it. If you open the file and export it as a B&W PDF (without relinking any of the images) you will see that the dog image that was placed directly in Publisher 1.10 does not export (it disappears). Only the dog that was copied and pasted from a document that was created in Publisher 1.9 exports correctly. If you relink the image, and then export the document as a B&W PDF again, none of the images will appear in the exported PDF. So that suggests there is a bug with how Affinity 1.10 places images. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help. Thank you so much again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted October 5, 2021 Staff Share Posted October 5, 2021 I've added this to an existing report - other than rasterizing the image(s) i cant see a workaround either big smile 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big smile Posted October 5, 2021 Author Share Posted October 5, 2021 34 minutes ago, Pauls said: I've added this to an existing report - other than rasterizing the image(s) i cant see a workaround either Thanks! Fingers crossed the team can fix it in the next bug fix update, otherwise I might have to downgrade to 1.9, as rasterising doesn't really work with my work flow. Also, let me know if I can provide any other info to help with the bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big smile Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 @Pauls @Dan C Just so you know, this is still an issue in 1.10.4. Dan C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big smile Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 This is still an issue in Beta 1.10.5.1214 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big smile Posted March 15, 2022 Author Share Posted March 15, 2022 @Pauls @Dan C Just so you know, this is still an issue in 1.10.5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted March 16, 2022 Staff Share Posted March 16, 2022 Thanks for the updates, unfortunately there's been no further development update to the bug report currently - but I'll be sure to inform you here when that changes big smile 1 Quote Please Note: I am now out of the office until Tuesday 2nd April on annual leave. If you require urgent assistance, please create a new thread and a member of our team will be sure to assist asap. Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big smile Posted November 10, 2022 Author Share Posted November 10, 2022 @Pauls @Dan C This still seems to be an issue in Affinity Publisher V2. However, it only seems to happen if the color space is changed when exporting a PDF. (For example, when exporting a PDF, if I select Color Space: As document, it seems to be fine. But if I select Color Space: Gray, the problem occurs. Should I start a new thread for it in the V2 forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted November 10, 2022 Staff Share Posted November 10, 2022 9 minutes ago, big smile said: Should I start a new thread for it in the V2 forum? Yes please, we're working through a large backlog of tickets at the moment but we'll be sure to action this ASAP and a new post would help us to more easily track this Quote Please Note: I am now out of the office until Tuesday 2nd April on annual leave. If you require urgent assistance, please create a new thread and a member of our team will be sure to assist asap. Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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