mmm22 Posted September 21, 2023 Posted September 21, 2023 Hello - I'm trying to open a pdf in Affinity Designer. The original file is a heat map with distinct patterns of color in rows and columns (first attachment). When Affinity opens the pdf, the colors are blended to obscure the rows and columns (second attachment). How do I import into Affinity without changing the color patterns? Thanks. Quote
NotMyFault Posted September 21, 2023 Posted September 21, 2023 Any chance you can upload the actual PDF? If it is private / not to be seen publicly, you can request a private upload link from moderators. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K 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. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
mmm22 Posted September 21, 2023 Author Posted September 21, 2023 Here's the original pdf: Thanks! original_pdf.pdf Quote
NotMyFault Posted September 21, 2023 Posted September 21, 2023 This file looks distorted right in Apple Safari / preview, unrelated to Affinity software. What SW are you using to get the „correct“ rendering? Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K 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. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
NotMyFault Posted September 21, 2023 Posted September 21, 2023 The ressource panel shows an image stretched extremely in x and y axis, with different factors. if you reset the scaling to 100%, you get the pixels in original size. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K 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. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
Staff DWright Posted September 22, 2023 Staff Posted September 22, 2023 I have logged this issue with our developers. Quote
NotMyFault Posted September 22, 2023 Posted September 22, 2023 I don't see any bug. The PDF contains an image layer which is stretched to the extremes. Depending on zoom level, you will see rendering artefacts caused by bilinear resampling. Works as designed for me. Apple Preview creates almost identical preview. Just change the zoom level to see all the to be expected rendering artefacts. Old Bruce 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K 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. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
thomaso Posted September 23, 2023 Posted September 23, 2023 On 9/21/2023 at 8:19 PM, mmm22 said: How do I import into Affinity without changing the color patterns? As mentioned by @NotMyFault this appearance is caused by a quality feature. To disable it you can switch to "Nearest Neighbour" in the app Preferences. Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
mmm22 Posted September 29, 2023 Author Posted September 29, 2023 (edited) Thank you, @thomaso and @NotMyFault! I zoomed in, and the heatmap ultimately resolved to its original color pattern. For zoomed out view, switching the quality to "Nearest Neighborhood" resolved the visual distortion. As an additional note, this problematic heat map was a vector graphic; rasterized version of the heat map did not have this issue. Edited September 29, 2023 by mmm22 Quote
thomaso Posted September 29, 2023 Posted September 29, 2023 42 minutes ago, mmm22 said: As an additional note, this problematic heat map was a vector graphic; rasterized version of the heat map did not have this issue. Are you referring to your uploaded PDF with "this problematic heat map" ? This was a raster image, not vector. The issue appears to be triggered by the extreme pixel distortion of stretching (horizontal) + compressing (vertical). Vector wouldn't get affected by scaling in such a way, – apart from possible moiré pattern on a monitors hardware pixels when rendering content in certain dimensions or angles. Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
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