Return of a bug? Exporting bitmap fill to pdf.

[Mr. Sam]

I have posted this on the forum here, but thought I should report this issue.

I just downloaded the most recent version 2.3.1 and I can't get around this. Designer is only exporting the .png, not the tiled fill when a fill is set to bitmap. I have included 2 bitmap fill images; and you can see that they are both exporting to pdf with only the center, original .png, not the tiled fill. The other picture is exporting artboard 2 after rasterizing the rectangle on artboard 2, but I don't wanna export a rastered image, I wanna export to PDF as a vector. Help!🙏

[Old Bruce]

19 hours ago, Mr. Sam said:

don't wanna export a rastered image, I wanna export to PDF as a vector. Help!

This is a weird bug. Having said that I just want to point out that using the Bitmap Fill for the Gradient tool means (by definition) that the fill is a Bitmap, not Vector.

[Mr. Sam]

@Old Bruce Good point; sure wish we could fill with vector shapes... anywho, the image had some vector layers I wanted to keep; but since this had to go to print yesterday, I had to export as "flattened" PDF and remove the vector layers. 

I hope Affinity can get this bug fixed. I do a lot of pattern prints.

[DWright]

Hi @Mr. Sam,

Can you please save your document as a package and send this to me using the following Dropbox link for me to test and log with our developers.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/1yjKYxtTyJ2mJJDc8kyF

[Mr. Sam]

Any chance I can revive an old post?

I ended up switching back to Inkscape for this problem in the past, but I am now back at it with Affinity and the same (insert curse word here) problem. I have tried filling the artboard background, no dice. Then I tried creating a new shape and filling that shape, no dice... After several updates, I'm stumped as to why this bug persists. I'm happy to share the file if I can get this resolved. As you can see below, I can export a large JPEG, but it won't let me export the PDF as it only wants to export the single "pattern" .png on one of the artboards.

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, Mr. Sam said:

I'm happy to share the file if I can get this resolved.

If you can share it publicly you can just attach the .afdesign file here, though perhaps it's best to save it as a Package, then zip the .afpackage file and the two directories and upload the .zip file, instead.

If you can't share publicly, you'll need to wait for @DWright to provide a new private Dropbox link.

[Mr. Sam]

@walt.farrell thank you for the information. I don't think it would be wise to share this publicly as the design patterns are licensed. I'll message @DWright to see if he can help out here.

[Mr. Sam]

Ugh, I think I may have figured it out. This is so strange. This is the resolution I found for those who run into this in the future:

Under Advanced > Rasterize, change "Unsupported Properties" to "Everything"

Thank you for the help community!