Issues with exporting PDF version (i.e. links missing?)

[Emma Violet]

Hi there,

{Preface: I am for all intents and purposes technically illiterate.}

I am currently in the process of trying to submit my poetry manuscript for publication, but have encountered an issue when attempting to export as a PDF {I've attached an image of the accompanying warning text box}. 

The manuscript itself is very image-heavy as it includes high-resolution images of artworks and photographs alongside the text. 

After each attempt to export, the original document is essentially ruined, with images rendered almost illegible and outrageously pixelated. I've had to manually reinsert the affected images, which has been both time-consuming and frustrating, as I'm sure you'll appreciate.

Any assistance to remedy this issue and help ready my manuscript for publication would be much appreciated. Please offer advice in layman's terms only!

Thank you,

Emma Violet xx

[DWright]

Hi @Emma Violet,

Welcome to the forums

When the linked images are missing then a low resolution thumbnail is use to show the location of the image  in the document which is why the PDF export is incorrect.

You can try a couple of things if your images are on an external drive you can copy these to a local drive on your computer if there is space and the relink your document  images to this location and they will retain the links the next time the document is opened, you can also change the image from linked to embedded in the Resource manager and this will place a copy of the image in the .afpub file the downside to this is that it will greatly increase the file size of your document.