Round rectangle rasterised when exporting to PDF

[beatrixwillius]

I'm switching all Affinity Designer icons for my application from png to pdf. Some of the files tell me that they are going to be rasterised. I made a test file with a single round rectangle having a gradient. Why does this simple file tell me it will be rasterised?

I've uploaded the file to https://www.mothsoftware.com/downloads/round_rect.zip .

Regards

Beatrix Willius

 

[firstdefence]

Click on the More button and change the Rasterise: option to "Nothing"

Ps: The CSS isn't loading on the page, checked in Safari, Opera and Brave

[beatrixwillius]

Thanks, that solved the problem. I just don't understand what "unsupported properties" a simple round rectangle could have.

[firstdefence]

Just now, beatrixwillius said:

Thanks, that solved the problem. I just don't understand what "unsupported properties" a simple round rectangle could have.

Possibly the gradient.

[firstdefence]

You can upload and attach files to posts, you don't have to upload them to external websites. Going to mothsoftware.com gets the page loading correctly so it's just the link in the first post that's off.

[h_d]

When I select the rounded rectangle and then the Fill tool, I get a rectangle that extends outside the boundaries of the document:

 

Simply dragging the Fill tool over the object (from bottom to top, as the gradient is reversed) gives me this:

 

Which exports without rasterisation.

Not really sure why, though - maybe there is a slight shear on the original fill.

 

Add: (The forum software seems to be adding an extraneous full stop at the end of the OP's link, which is why it doesn't work first time. Uploading files to the forum itself works far better.)

Edited April 17, 2022 by h_d
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[beatrixwillius]

Thanks for the information. I don't remember how old the files are. 10 years? I've also edited them with multiple applications.

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, h_d said:

maybe there is a slight shear on the original fill

I believe this would explain the rectangle that appears when you choose the Fill Tool.

[thomaso]

4 hours ago, h_d said:

When I select the rounded rectangle and then the Fill tool, I get a rectangle that extends outside the boundaries (...)

Simply dragging the Fill tool over the object (from bottom to top, as the gradient is reversed) (…) exports without rasterisation.

Wouldn't this export limitation of just a certain interface use of the Fill Tool be a bug?

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Wouldn't this export limitation of just a certain interface use of the Fill Tool be a bug?

Not necessarily.

It sounds as though, perhaps, the original had a skewed gradient. Perhaps skewed gradients can't be exported without rasterization.

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, beatrixwillius said:

... I don't remember how old the files are. 10 years? I've also edited them with multiple applications.

Each application can add something unsupported to the file.