Artistwright Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 After importing a pdf into Affinity Designer i noticed that the paths, nodes and bounding boxes are all black, when normally they are all blue. Ive included 2 examples so you can see what i mean. My questions. Why is this happening? how do I change this so that it looks normal (blue) Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 57 minutes ago, Aron LW said: Why is this happening? What does the Layers panel show? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artistwright Posted September 8, 2022 Author Share Posted September 8, 2022 4 hours ago, walt.farrell said: What does the Layers panel show? The layers panel looks completely normal, I have all my layers etc. I searched through the settings etc and have find nothing relating to this. Even on google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artistwright Posted September 8, 2022 Author Share Posted September 8, 2022 I have even tried to save it as a .afdesign file and its still the same. the only way to get it to look like it usually does it to create a new document and copy and paste whatever is part of the design into the new document. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted September 8, 2022 Staff Share Posted September 8, 2022 Is it possible for you to post a copy of the .afdesign file so we can investigate this further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 16 hours ago, Aron LW said: After importing a pdf into Affinity Designer i noticed that the paths, nodes and bounding boxes are all black, when normally they are all blue. Ive included 2 examples so you can see what i mean. Is the Designer document Greyscale? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | 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 September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 16 hours ago, Aron LW said: After importing a pdf Also, what do you mean by "importing"? Did you Open it, or Place it, or copy/paste, or something else? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artistwright Posted September 21, 2022 Author Share Posted September 21, 2022 On 9/8/2022 at 9:47 AM, DWright said: Is it possible for you to post a copy of the .afdesign file so we can investigate this further. I'd love to but it's from a client, sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artistwright Posted September 21, 2022 Author Share Posted September 21, 2022 On 9/8/2022 at 1:38 PM, Old Bruce said: Is the Designer document Greyscale? No its in RGB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artistwright Posted September 21, 2022 Author Share Posted September 21, 2022 On 9/8/2022 at 1:46 PM, walt.farrell said: Also, what do you mean by "importing"? Did you Open it, or Place it, or copy/paste, or something else? when I say I imported it, I mean I opened the PDF document like this - Inside Affinity Designer, File>Open>then I choose the PDF file stored on my desktop. So im actually opening the PDF inside of Affinity Designer. The nodes and handle are black and white. So then I tried to save it as .afdesign file, but still the black and white handles, paths and nodes remain. Also sorry for my late response Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 Which PDF format/type/standard has that PDF file be written in? Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artistwright Posted September 22, 2022 Author Share Posted September 22, 2022 18 hours ago, v_kyr said: Which PDF format/type/standard has that PDF file be written in? I'm not sure how to find that out, I clicked command i (mac) to see and it just says pdf no other info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 This happened to me just this morning. The place to look is the Layer Properties. Right click on the Layer, choose Properties at the bottom. You will then see the Layer Color option. v_kyr and Artistwright 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artistwright Posted September 22, 2022 Author Share Posted September 22, 2022 1 hour ago, prophet said: This happened to me just this morning. The place to look is the Layer Properties. Right click on the Layer, choose Properties at the bottom. You will then see the Layer Color option. Wow you've cracked the case!!!! Thank you so much! looks like you can choose any colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Happy to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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