Intuos5 Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Currently, if I link a vector PDF, it may come in as rasterised: Changing the settings to interpret, rather than passthrough allows me to get it to display as a vector. However, I would like to also be able to change the resolution the document is rendered in after linking it in. If I change these settings, it scales the document, I would instead like to increase the resolution only, so I can use the passthrough mode. So for instance the 581x652 pixels would be increased/ decreased accordingly. Ideally, I would like a DPI change, but not have my document be scaled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 3 hours ago, Intuos5 said: Currently, if I link a vector PDF, it may come in as rasterised: I don't think it "comes in rasterized". Rather, with Passthrough you are seeing a rasterized version so you see an accurate view of the PDF contents. The contents, though, are still vector if they were vector originally. 3 hours ago, Intuos5 said: If I change these settings, it scales the document, I would instead like to increase the resolution only, so I can use the passthrough mode. The DPI shown there has no effect on Passthrough mode, and no effect on vector files, as far as I know. 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intuos5 Posted July 6, 2022 Author Share Posted July 6, 2022 Thing is, the preview quality is way too low to work with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Intuos5 said: Thing is, the preview quality is way too low to work with. In what way? 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intuos5 Posted July 6, 2022 Author Share Posted July 6, 2022 In this way: Passthrough: Interpret: I am using vector files and vector formats to work with vectors, i don't want to see any pixel approximations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 8 hours ago, Intuos5 said: Changing the settings to interpret, rather than passthrough allows me to get it to display as a vector. However, I would like to also be able to change the resolution the document is rendered in after linking it in. A linked Document will have its DPI/PPI unchanged by anything we do to the Document it is placed into. What does the exported document look like? Is the DPI of the linked PDF's image high or stuck at 72 DPI/PPI? More importantly do an experiment, place the above map PDF twice, once as Interpret and once as Passthrough and export to your file format of choice and look at the two maps. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 3 hours ago, Intuos5 said: I am using vector files and vector formats to work with vectors, i don't want to see any pixel approximations Can't you just ignore how it looks? It should Export appropriately. 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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