Blurred font exporting

[Wilfred Hildonen]

I am trying to export a project in Affinity Publsher and everything looks fine, also when I share it to Books in order to proofread, but now I wanted to save it in order to send it to the publisher, but then I checked the preview and just one detail looks very wrong. The words come out completely illegible - it should read “collected works” but as you can see it’s just like a big blob. I’ve tried deleting it and using other fonts etc, but to no avail. 

[walt.farrell]

It would help to see that page as a .afpub file. Or at least a screenshot from Publisher showing that text and the Layers panel showing it.

Without that, I can only guess that you've applied some Layer Effect (FX) or done something else that rasterizes the text,.

[Wilfred Hildonen]

Well, I hope a screenshot will do. I haven’t added any effects if it hasn’t happened accidentally, but as far as I can see, there are no effects added. I saved using the Share-option, though, and it came out fine. Maybe it’s just a bug in the Preview?

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. That doesn't give me any ideas, but perhaps it will let someone else provide more ideas.

Any chance you could create a new .afpub file, and add just that page (Document > Add Pages from file) to it and share that new file?

[RM f/g]

In the thumbnail of the layer ‘forside bind 1.tif’ there's a black blob visible (enlarge to see better). Just like in the original post.

Could there be a mask applied in this tif?

[walt.farrell]

Good catch, @RM f/g.

I wonder why the Artistic Text layer that's above it is being obscured, though?

[RM f/g]

I've been toying around a bit with a placed (and rasterised) tif with a mask applied. The thumbnail in the layer indeed showes a black blob where the mask is.

Having tried various ways to export, I've not been able to have it showing up in the exported file.

@Wilfred Hildonen, can you tell us the export settings you used?

[Wilfred Hildonen]

5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Thanks. That doesn't give me any ideas, but perhaps it will let someone else provide more ideas.

Any chance you could create a new .afpub file, and add just that page (Document > Add Pages from file) to it and share that new file?

It’s a rather large file in total, nearly 200 mb…

[Wilfred Hildonen]

4 hours ago, RM f/g said:

In the thumbnail of the layer ‘forside bind 1.tif’ there's a black blob visible (enlarge to see better). Just like in the original post.

Could there be a mask applied in this tif?

Ah! I think you might be onto something there! There was a text there from earlier which I erased, before I added the new text. Maybe the solution is to add a white rectangle which covers it then?

[Wilfred Hildonen]

5 hours ago, RM f/g said:

In the thumbnail of the layer ‘forside bind 1.tif’ there's a black blob visible (enlarge to see better). Just like in the original post.

Could there be a mask applied in this tif?

Yes! That was it! I didn’t think of it and that it would be visible. Since well, it isn’t before I try that preview. Anyway, I deleted it and edited it by adding layers instead of erasing and then I merged it, exported it as a pdf, et voilá! No blob. Thanks a lot!