Greybeard53 Posted February 20, 2022 Posted February 20, 2022 I'm new to AP for Mac, this may be easier than I'm making it. When I place an image (tif or png) with a transparent background in an AP document it appears correctly on-screen, but when I export to PDF and print a sample the bounding box for the image prints in black. I've tried dragging and dropping the image and using the Place tool with the same result. Wha am I missing? Quote
Wosven Posted February 20, 2022 Posted February 20, 2022 Hi @Greybeard53, If you could provide samples to search where is the problem, it would be useful. Quote
Greybeard53 Posted February 21, 2022 Author Posted February 21, 2022 I'm trying to create a series of gate-fold gift cards from my drawings. I place a large image on the front page of the card and a smaller image on the back of the card. At first I thought it was the use of a drop-shadow causing the problem. But I removed those and get the same results. See two attachments: one is what I see on-screen, and one is what prints from the PDF I generate in AP. Any ideas will be appreciated. And yes I blurred the text, that's not the problem. Quote
Old Bruce Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 17 hours ago, Wosven said: Hi @Greybeard53, If you could provide samples to search where is the problem, it would be useful. I will reiterate Wosven's request; A simple sample document would really help. Otherwise all we can do is speculate. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Greybeard53 Posted February 21, 2022 Author Posted February 21, 2022 Sorry I missed that. I assumed the jpegs I attached would resolve it. You want an Affinity Publisher doc? I'll attach a test with the images. FeatherCard1 Test.afpub Quote
Old Bruce Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 It may be due to mismatched Colour Profiles and Colour spaces. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Wosven Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 Can you try exporting with a PDF/X setting that will rasterise transparency (avoiding mask, etc.), and probaly correct the result? Quote
Greybeard53 Posted February 21, 2022 Author Posted February 21, 2022 Tried exporting with PDF/X-4 with the same result, but exported with PDF/X-3:2003 and it works. Thank you! Wosven 1 Quote
Wosven Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 Perhaps you can try posting a bug report in the forum, and give the files to a moderator, so they can correct the export to PDF above 1.3. Above 1.3, PDF version will keep transparency, masks and effects, but it can be displayed differently depending of the PDF viewer, printed with errors on home printers, and also with errors when send to print... Looking at the print preview in Adobe Reader can help notice some errors. Quote
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