Weird things when exporting.

[Mr Sinister]

Hi. Have finally finished my 1st work using AD2 (Beta). It’s been fun / frustrating / an experience in learning.

Am now having to export it, so I can send it off to the print people.

When I export to jpeg all seems well. However, when exporting to PDF I get these random / isolated areas where the vectors have gone crazy.

98% of the image is fine, which makes these errors more baffling.

I’m not knowledgeable / confident enough to mess with the settings.

Any pointers as to what might be happening?

[walt.farrell]

A screenshot of the original, and what you're seeing in the PDF, might be useful.

What OS do you use?

Can you share the .afdesign file with us?

[Mr Sinister]

Sorry, I was in a rush, and only partially copied / pasted.

I'm using macOS 12.6.8. MacBook Pro 16GB RAM. Apple M1 Pro.

Have attached 3 screenshots of instances where it's gone a bit weird. There may be others. These are from a PDF export. The jpg export looks fine.

Have also attached the latest version of the AD2 (Beta) file, so you can compare the before / after.

Cheers,

Mark.

 

 

Pink Floyd Part 1 V7.afdesign

[EmT]

Hi @Mr Sinister
There is a known issue around strokes with pressure being expanded incorrectly on export or when using Expand Stroke. I have passed along your example to the devs.

If you make a small change to the pressure graph and move the top node down slightly this does seem to be a current workaround to stop it occuring. I've made this slight change to the problem curves in the Tomatoes, Vegetable Man and Hill Climber 4 groups in your document to demonstrate this.

modified Pink Floyd Part 1 V7.afdesign

[Mr Sinister]

18 hours ago, EmT said:

Hi @Mr Sinister
There is a known issue around strokes with pressure being expanded incorrectly on export or when using Expand Stroke. I have passed along your example to the devs.

If you make a small change to the pressure graph and move the top node down slightly this does seem to be a current workaround to stop it occuring. I've made this slight change to the problem curves in the Tomatoes, Vegetable Man and Hill Climber 4 groups in your document to demonstrate this.

modified Pink Floyd Part 1 V7.afdesign 433.99 MB · 2 downloads

Thank you so much. I'll try that, and hopefully it will work.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Expand stroke doesn't work well with curves with pressure" (REF: AF-728) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.5.0.2463".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Expanding specific curve gets its stroke and fill colours swapped" (REF: AF-3079) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.5.0.2463".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.