Exporting to PDF causes crash

[nucleardirk]

Hey there,

when exporting the attached file into a PDF, Affinity Designer for iPad crashes and closes down after a while.

The logo has got the "overwrite color" FX feature and an export with the windows desktop version works fine.

I have a very old iPad 9,7" Pro but running the most recent iPad OS and there is enough space left on the device.

 

TEST_LOGO_black.afdesign

[nucleardirk]

I tried to export the vector without the FX which worked fine, also exporting with FX to other formats like „svg“ what also worked.

But with FX slight blur crashes as well when selecting export to PDF (also, svg works fine). 
I tried also to reproduce with Affinity Designer v1 and resolved the same issues.

interestingly a lot of rasterized layer and Affinity Photo works well. 
 

cheers

dirk

[Dan C]

Hi @nucleardirk,

Thanks for your report and sorry to hear you're having trouble!

I can confirm that I have replicated this issue, both with crashing on iPad and taking an unreasonable amount of time to generate the PDF export preview on Desktop where I have 32GB of RAM - so I am logging this as a bug with our developers now.

As mentioned above, if you remove the Colour Overlay FX and simply change the colour of the curve fills directly then this file should export much quicker, and will remain in vector format.

I hope this helps