rkdp Posted June 26, 2022 Posted June 26, 2022 When exporting to PDF (for print), Affinity Publisher 1.10.5.1342 converts drop shadows that overlay a solid color to an odd light-hazy drop shadow. I've seen a "workaround" listed for this issue more than a year ago, so it has been a major issue for longer than a year now. Is Affinity working on this??? Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 26, 2022 Posted June 26, 2022 Examples? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Staff Callum Posted June 27, 2022 Staff Posted June 27, 2022 On 6/26/2022 at 1:33 AM, rkdp said: When exporting to PDF (for print), Affinity Publisher 1.10.5.1342 converts drop shadows that overlay a solid color to an odd light-hazy drop shadow. I've seen a "workaround" listed for this issue more than a year ago, so it has been a major issue for longer than a year now. Is Affinity working on this??? Hi Rkdp, Please could you provide a screenshot showing your documents drop shadow before and after exporting so I can see the issue? Please could you also provide a link to the previous thread you have found regarding this as it should help me look into this further with you. Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
rkdp Posted June 27, 2022 Author Posted June 27, 2022 Here's the link to the previous thread I had found. I'll upload my pix in a bit with a different workaround as well. Thanks for your time Callum. Quote
prophet Posted June 27, 2022 Posted June 27, 2022 Indeed, this is still an issue and I use that hack of mine on a near weekly basis. rkdp 1 Quote
rkdp Posted June 27, 2022 Author Posted June 27, 2022 Attached are screenshots of the orig file, the export settings, and the exported pdf. The other workaround is to make a copy of the image (Burger text in this case) directly behind the orig image, filled black. Bring it down and to the right as a shadow; in fx, apply Gaussian Blur and click on color overlay in fx. And this will export to pdf properly. Quote
rkdp Posted June 27, 2022 Author Posted June 27, 2022 Note: Don't know why the red background appears different here, but in the orig and pdf, the red background appears the same before uploading them. Quote
rkdp Posted June 27, 2022 Author Posted June 27, 2022 1 hour ago, prophet said: Indeed, this is still an issue and I use that hack of mine on a near weekly basis. Yes, that is a nice workaround. And I appreciate you having shared it... very helpful until they correct this... soon I hope Quote
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