Lennypenny Posted January 18, 2022 Posted January 18, 2022 Hi all, Newbie on the forum here, so be nice:). I'm experiencing some weird stuff when exporting an illustration with Drop Shadow FX from Designer. It seems like the drop shadow is not entirely transparant with separate background colors, see attached image. This only happens when exporting to PDF, when exporting to JPEG everything is fine. Anybody knows how to solve this? Quote
Komatös Posted January 18, 2022 Posted January 18, 2022 Hello @Lennypenny and welcome to the forums. Maybe it's the blend mode. Can you post the settings you use for the dropshadow? Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3476) Affinity Suite V 2.6.1 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF I already had a halo, but it didn't suit me!
Lennypenny Posted January 18, 2022 Author Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Komatös said: Hello @Lennypenny and welcome to the forums. Maybe it's the blend mode. Can you post the settings you use for the dropshadow? I use it as a Layer Effect, settings as attached image. Tried setting opacity to 100%, tried (un)checking the 'fill knocks out shadow' checkbox, different colors. All to no avail.. Edited January 18, 2022 by Lennypenny Quote
Komatös Posted January 18, 2022 Posted January 18, 2022 Can you tell about the export setting for the pdf? Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3476) Affinity Suite V 2.6.1 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF I already had a halo, but it didn't suit me!
Komatös Posted January 18, 2022 Posted January 18, 2022 @Lennypenny This is how it looks if I export to pdf. But I'm on a Windows PCTesting Dropshadow darken digital smal size.pdf. Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3476) Affinity Suite V 2.6.1 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF I already had a halo, but it didn't suit me!
wonderings Posted January 18, 2022 Posted January 18, 2022 can you throw up a PDF of this problem PDF? What PDF viewer are you using? Quote
Lennypenny Posted January 19, 2022 Author Posted January 19, 2022 19 hours ago, wonderings said: can you throw up a PDF of this problem PDF? What PDF viewer are you using? Using Apple's Preview as PDF viewer, but that doesn't seem the problem. Exporting in preset PDF X/1-a:2003 seems to cause trouble with drop shadow/transparancy. Exporting in other presets is fine! The printing company asks for this preset, so I guess I have to give them a call.. Quote
Lennypenny Posted January 19, 2022 Author Posted January 19, 2022 Anyhow, I think this is solved, I guess PDF X/1-a:2003 can't handle Drop Shadows or such effects using transparency. Thanks for the quick reply's you guys! Quote
wonderings Posted January 20, 2022 Posted January 20, 2022 I was wondering if it was the PDF viewer itself that was the problem, which is why I wanted to see the PDF and try in a few different programs to see if they all came out the same. Good to hear you got it sorted! Quote
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