Export (to pdf) Preview glitches with placed pdfs

[iaing]

Some placed pdfs don't render correctly in the export preview when exporting to pdf. Happens throughout the publication, but not to all pdfs. Publication is opened from v1.10, but I can recreate fresh in v2 with same result.

[meulus]

I can't create a pdf in publisher 2 from a large document (60 pages) generating preview problem

[MikeTO]

7 hours ago, iaing said:

Some placed pdfs don't render correctly in the export preview when exporting to pdf. Happens throughout the publication, but not to all pdfs. Publication is opened from v1.10, but I can recreate fresh in v2 with same result.

I think somebody else reported this so it's hopefully on the list

7 hours ago, meulus said:

I can't create a pdf in publisher 2 from a large document (60 pages) generating preview problem

It seems to take forever to create a preview for a long document, as long as it would take to export the document. If you change it to export only a single page or 10 pages it should appear pretty quickly but I realize you may want the full preview. I just ignore the preview and export it immediately so it doesn't matter me too much. I'd turn off the preview if there was an option to do so.

[meulus]

I can't ignore the preview window and I can't create a PDF from multiple pages with Publisher 2

[MikeTO]

6 minutes ago, meulus said:

I can't ignore the preview window and I can't create a PDF from multiple pages with Publisher 2

Oh. I think somebody else reported this with v2 yesterday and then said they solved it but I think the fix was uninstalling and reinstalling, which would be a pain. That would indicate that the issue may be something to do with permission to write to a folder so maybe try exporting to a different location? I don't have Windows so somebody else will have to help you from here. Good luck!

Oops, we're in the Mac part of the forum. The person who reported a similar error yesterday was definitely on Windows so that's of no help. I don't know why you'd be getting this on macOS though. If you're able to share a sample document with the problem here I'll take a look. Otherwise you might have to share a sample through a private link with Serif.

Edited November 10, 2022 by MikeTO
Correction

[meulus]

The same document I have previously successfully printed a pdf/X-4 with publisher 1, this is clearly a bug!

[Gabe]

We gonna need to see some sample documents 

iaing > https://www.dropbox.com/request/Ybeo7PlY4xivvWVPY92D

meulus > please create a new thread as your issue is different. https://www.dropbox.com/request/BZ7TEQ1rC1CcarJ1i6qn

[garrettm30]

I also noticed what I think I think is the same thing: documents set up without background transparency are still transparent in the preview. But then I discovered that this is apparently always the case, even with documents exported in V1 and InDesign, so I concluded that it has always been this way and I just never noticed before.

[meulus]

On 11/11/2022 at 10:16 AM, meulus said:

The same document I have previously successfully printed a pdf/X-4 with publisher 1, this is clearly a bug!

I have tried the following.
An affinity publisher 1 document opened with many images in Publisher 2 export to PDF/X-4 fails, export to PDF/X-1a:2003 and PDF/X-3:2003 works fine.

After I made a save as Package of the document, the export to PDF/X-4 also went well.

As far as I'm concerned, the problem is solved.
Thanks for the responses.