Paul Mc Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Hi everyone, I'm exporting some artwork to PDF and I'm unable to export one layer as a layer. The results is that all but one layer export as expected and the contents of one layer appear at the top level and not as a layer. Here's the setup in Designer: And here is the result when opened in Acrobat Reader: The Photo layer is missing. The Photo Layer contents appear at the top level so this might not be a showstopper but I'm curious as to why it didn't export. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 What if you add a small "dummy" vector shape to the "Photo" layer? I have no practical experience with this workflow, but I remember reading that layers are being exported to PDF only when certain criteria are met. Paul Mc 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mc Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 @loukash that seems to make it work. I was experimenting with all sorts of things and even though things changed in the export nothing worked as I wanted it to. I added a rectangle with a blank fill and blank stroke and bingo. I wish I'd read that comment you saw earlier. It would have saved me a truck load of time. I have to say this is very unintuitive. I wonder what the rationale is for it working this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 36 minutes ago, Paul Mc said: I have to say this is very unintuitive. I wonder what the rationale is for it working this way. I guess that's a limit of the PDF specification. Callum 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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