Serious import/export bugs in Affinity Publisher

[tropilio]

I have encountered some bugs when exporting a pdf presentation from Affinity Publisher, where some of the content of the exported pdf does not look exactly as it was in the Publisher project. Some examples:

How it looks like in Publisher vs how it looks like in the pdf:
 

How it looks like in Publisher vs how it looks like in the pdf:

  

As you can see there are many bugs. Inverted colors, lines disappearing, lines appearing... The only workaround I have found is to toggle "rasterize everything" on the pdf export menu. However, this is quite annoying as I would like to keep the exported pdf as a scalable vector graphics.

I have also encountered bugs when importing data as svg, for example:

How it should look like (here opened with Adobe Illustrator):

How it looks like in Publisher (or Designer):

As you can see, most of the text is rendered completely wrong, making the image basically unusable. I have not found a workaround for this and I had to first open the svg file with Illustrator, and then copy-paste to Publisher. This is completely disrupting my workflow, as I am unable to reliably insert an svg image into a Publisher presentation.

I must say that I am quite amazed that there are bugs of this magnitude in a product at version 2. These are essential functionalities that should not be so fragile. The fact that there is a risk that my project will not be rendered correctly on export, or that vector content will not be imported correctly, makes working with the Affinity suite a frustrating experience. This is very disappointing, as many other things are done well, such as the user interface and the interaction between the 3 softwares of the suite.

 

 

[Callum]

Hi tropilio,

If possible could you provide a sample of one of the files you are importing so I can log this with our developers to be investigated further?

Thanks
C

[tropilio]

Sure @Callum, they are attached.

As it is now, this software is unusable for making presentations.

frac.svg cover.afpub

[MikeTO]

I'm seeing the same issues with both test documents. The SVG one is straightforward, look at ytick_7 for a good example.

I've simplified the other test case deleting everything but the single offending shape. When exported to PDF it's solid instead of unfilled. Adjusting any of the two node's curve handles by a hair will result in the shape being exported correctly.

cover.afpub

 

[Callum]

Hi All I apologise for the delayed response I have been out of the office recently. I have recreated this issue here and logged this as a bug with our dev team. I'll update this thread once I have more info from them.

Thanks
C