Images messed up when exporting to PDF on Publisher?

[rnmartinez]

Hi,

No idea what is causing this. I created this doc in publisher v1, then opened and saved in 2. Everything looks great within publisher. When I export to PDF however, I get distorted images

No idea what is causing this; did something screw this up from v1 to v2? I do get some preflight warnings for non proportional scaling, although some of the images without this error screw up and some don't.

 

I have also attached my settings

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-Rodolfo

 

 

[laurent32]

Are they TIFF files ? I've seen someone having problem with such files…

[flybynight]

Any update or fix on this? 

I'm suddenly running into this issue as well. My images are grayscale jpegs saved out of Affinity Photo, but the issue looks similar to the original post, where the top 1/3 or so of images looks like the data got skewed. 

Everything looks fine in Affinity Publisher, but PDF output is messed up. And it was fine for the first 4 rounds of proofs, now I noticed this on the last couple. 

The fuchsia boxes are not in the output, just obfuscating because these are high school and middle school students. 

The weird thing is that I can do 2 PDF exports back to back, and the issue is different. A different amount of the photos is affected and the skew or pattern will look different. 

[flybynight]

Just an update… the above was generated with Publisher 2.0.4 on macOS 13.2.1. Since the issue started for me recently, I thought maybe one of the recent updates was the culprit.

But, I also tried on my Mac mini that still had Publisher 2.0 on macOS 13.1, and got similar results. 

[flybynight]

Just did some testing playing with various PDF output options. If I check the box for Allow JPEG compression, the output looks fine. I tried various combinations of downsampling or not, and not checking "Allow JPEG compression" seems to be the consistent thing that triggers the issue. I would have thought turning off downsampling and no [extra] compression would just pass the images through at their original quality, for less issues. Very odd. But at least I'm not dead in the water. 

[Callum]

Hi All this is a known issue with JPEG compression at this point in time. This is currently logged with our developers to be fixed in a future update, I will update this thread once I have more info.

Thanks
C