Talisman999 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Good morning, I've been having this problem periodically since I started using Affinity Designer 1 and it persists with AD2. Sometimes vector objects that I draw print black. See the black objects on the fin of the attached turtle picture. I work on an ipad and export to pdf. Going in and changing the fill or style does not seem to fix it - I typically need to recreate the objects in order to get rid of it. To my knowledge I am not doing anything differently when I create these objects, they just seem to pick up a black fill. The fill isnt shown on my screen on the ipad and doesn't show up at all until I export the pdf. I don't always notice it right away which means I need to re-export all the images. This black fill doesn't appear when I export to png so I think it might be something about the vector objects. I use symbols and layers a lot so maybe there is something about my process that is confusing the program? Regardless, can you tell me how to fix this / and or why this might happen so that I can avoid it in the future? ~ Thank you! ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Not something I've come across. Are you able to share an Affinity file that shows the problem? Otherwise will be tricky to diagnose. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman999 Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 (Edit: .afdesign file removed) This was done on an ipad and exporting to the default pdf option (but also the black fill appears when I export to other versions of pdf). Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 It seems the curve is exported as 3 filled areas, and the sequence is wrong (larger black par above smaller white part). smells like a bug. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 If you swap both layers in pdf, it’s get corrected Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 It’s already wrong in export preview Talisman999 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 5 hours ago, Talisman999 said: Regardless, can you tell me how to fix this / and or why this might happen so that I can avoid it in the future? It seems if you reverse the curve on those objects it will be fine. Talisman999 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.2 Affinity Designer 2.3.1 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman999 Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 39 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: It seems if you reverse the curve on those objects it will be fine. Ah, here it is. Thank you for the quick fix solution. It took me a minute to find, so for future seekers, an ipad screenshot below. You need to have the object selected with the second selection arrow to get the option for reverse direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman999 Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 43 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: It’s already wrong in export preview Thank you for the new tool I did not know I needed. ⚙ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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