stitchingfairy Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 I recently posted about flattening a document to prevent images being taken from a pdf, now I am trying to change each Artboard into a pixel document, I get so far by changing each Artboard to pixels and then when I get to changing the last Artboard the screen goes black and only one image is remaining to export. Where am I going wrong? I have tried merging the Artboards to prevent the images being editable but when I open them in a pdf editor the images can still be moved and edited. Can anyone explain to me how I change Artboards to pixels and then still be able to export all of the Artboards in one pdf? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted July 11, 2023 Staff Share Posted July 11, 2023 Hi @stitchingfairy, 58 minutes ago, stitchingfairy said: changing each Artboard to pixels and then when I get to changing the last Artboard the screen goes black and only one image is remaining to export. I take it you are rasterising each artboard to convert them from vectors to raster? Could you upload the afdesign file for your document to our Dropbox here and I'll take a look at why that would be happening. A workaround that may work without converting your artboards, when you are on the Export window, set Rasterize to 'Everything' and export to PDF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Return Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 17 minutes ago, stokerg said: set Rasterize to 'Everything' and export to PDF. Tried this but makes (single) images still available in the pdf. I think rasterizing all into pixellayers by rasterizing them as groups is the only way. stokerg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Return Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 My guess is the OP wants the complete pdf flattened as image per page. Maybe this could be an option on export. One could always use a thirdparty tool like xnviewmp to convert the pdf to pdf that will flatten it into an image only pdf but that increases the size of the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchingfairy Posted July 11, 2023 Author Share Posted July 11, 2023 36 minutes ago, Return said: My guess is the OP wants the complete pdf flattened as image per page. Maybe this could be an option on export. One could always use a thirdparty tool like xnviewmp to convert the pdf to pdf that will flatten it into an image only pdf but that increases the size of the file. Thankyou, yes I tried exporting to a pdf editor and flattening but when I opened the pdf again I could still edit it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchingfairy Posted July 11, 2023 Author Share Posted July 11, 2023 54 minutes ago, stokerg said: Hi @stitchingfairy, I take it you are rasterising each artboard to convert them from vectors to raster? Could you upload the afdesign file for your document to our Dropbox here and I'll take a look at why that would be happening. A workaround that may work without converting your artboards, when you are on the Export window, set Rasterize to 'Everything' and export to PDF. Yes I tried that but only one page was there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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