Wilfred Hildonen Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 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,. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfred Hildonen Posted October 25, 2023 Author Share Posted October 25, 2023 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 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? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RM f/g Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 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? Wilfred Hildonen and walt.farrell 1 1 Quote Macbook Pro mid 2015, 16 GB, double barrel: MacOS Mojave + Affinity 1 (+ Adobe’s CS6)/ MacOS Monterey + Affinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 Good catch, @RM f/g. I wonder why the Artistic Text layer that's above it is being obscured, though? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RM f/g Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 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? Quote Macbook Pro mid 2015, 16 GB, double barrel: MacOS Mojave + Affinity 1 (+ Adobe’s CS6)/ MacOS Monterey + Affinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfred Hildonen Posted October 26, 2023 Author Share Posted October 26, 2023 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… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfred Hildonen Posted October 26, 2023 Author Share Posted October 26, 2023 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfred Hildonen Posted October 26, 2023 Author Share Posted October 26, 2023 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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