PDF Rasterising

[Affectus]

Hi

Can anyone help/advise on this problem. I'm using the Affinity Suite on a Mac and have just produced a 24pp magazine utilising various effects. When I export to pdf for reproduction, I rasterise unsupported properties to render the effects I've applied accurately. This time for a reason which, at this point, I don't understand, it has rasterised several, but not all, of the entire pages including all text panels on those particular pages. On the pages where the text hasn't been rasterised, I have applied the same text style as those on the pages rasterised. I've got round this, this time by rasterising all the elements that need it individually within Publisher and then changing my PDF setting to rasterising nothing. But this is a long-winded and risky procedure and also meant I had to rasterise live text that shadow was applied to – far from ideal. I'm using Publisher 2.0.4. I haven't incurred this problem before. Anybody any ideas?

[stokerg]

Hi @Affectus,

Can you attach your afpub file or upload it to our Dropbox here and let me know which pages have the issue when exported and i'll look into this.  Also if you can let me know which PDF Export Settings you are using that would be great  

[Affectus]

Hi stokerg

I've uploaded the afpub file you requested. I've also included the original pdf I produced which, as you'll be able to see, has rasterised the text on pages 2, 4 and 8. I've also included a screenshot of the pdf settings I used to create the pdf. I'm not sure whether you'll need all the associated files as well though, which will add up to quite a large folder size. Let me know if you do, or if I can be of any more help. Thanks for looking into this for me.

[stokerg]

Hi @Affectus,

Thanks for uploading the files.

I can see the rasterised text in your PDF, however when I export your afpub file, using the same export settings those page are fine.  I'll drop you a PM with a download link for the PDF.

 

[Affectus]

Hi stokerg

Thanks for that. The pdf you've sent has used substitute fonts and therefore is not a like for like compared to the pdf I sent. Also I'm not sure whether not having all the original image files would also play a part. But one thing does strike me: both on the body text font and caption font, I've applied. effects. On the body font (Novarese Book), the client wanted a slightly heavier weight so I applied an outline in the text style panel. On the cation font (Novarese Bold Italic), I've applied a drop shadow effect. Maybe this is why the font is rasterising, but doesn't explain why it is only happening on 3 of the 24 pages. I would appreciate it if you could look into this further for me.