Artwork isn’t exporting

[ArtLone]

Hi! I am currently using Designer 2 on iPad Pro 12 (I think 1st or 2nd gen) to create vector art that will be printed as a huge mural for an office wall. It is almost 5 meters wide. While drawing it, I had no issues whatsoever, but now I tried several vector formats to export and you can see the export is greyed out. The progress bar says „Generating art: 100&“ and the loading wheel keeps spinning but nothing has changed in the past 30 minutes. Does anyone have advice what `I should do?

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @ArtLone.
 

12 hours ago, ArtLone said:

iPad Pro 12 (I think 1st or 2nd gen)

The original iPad Pro was released in November 2015, the 2nd gen models were released in June 2017.

 

12 hours ago, ArtLone said:

While drawing it, I had no issues whatsoever, but now I tried several vector formats to export and you can see the export is greyed out.

Does it include any raster elements? I see that ‘Rasterise’ is set to ‘Unsupported properties’ but JPEG compression is disallowed, which could lead to a very large size for the exported file.

[ArtLone]

Hi! Thanks for the welcoming!

I think it‘s 2nd gen then. If 2nd gen has only 1 back camera.
 

Ahh ok so there is a layer where I sketched in Procreate and imported it but the export still doesn‘t finish. I imported some svg assets, is that the issue? Or maybe I have too many layers?

Edited August 8, 2024 by ArtLone

[stokerg]

Hi @ArtLone,

Can you attach the afdesign file or upload it to our Dropbox here and i'll see if i'm able to export it?  To save the file as an afdesign file, see here.

Are you able to export to any other format?  To rule out a resource issue, if you resize the file to half of the current size, so it then export to PDF?

[walt.farrell]

On 8/8/2024 at 4:27 AM, ArtLone said:

It is almost 5 meters wide. While drawing it, I had no issues whatsoever, but now I tried several vector formats to export and you can see the export is greyed out.

At 300 DPI I think you may be exceeding the maximum document dimensions for a PDF file. But I would have expected an error message in the Export dialog in that case.

[Alfred]

33 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

At 300 DPI I think you may be exceeding the maximum document dimensions for a PDF file.

Isn’t the maximum defined in inches rather than pixels? I believe the maximum value is 200.

[wonderings]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

Isn’t the maximum defined in inches rather than pixels? I believe the maximum value is 200.

It is 200 inches, and the OP is close to that, so maybe the artwork is actually wider then 5 meters.

5 meters is 196.85 inches. 

 

We have noticed some issues when using files larger then 200" with Illustrator. RIP and Nesting software can go a bit wonky just by having an artboard that lets you go beyond 200" in size. This is speaking about Illustrator, not even sure if Designer lets you work with files larger then 200". That being said the simplest solution is sizing it down 50%. Might be worth a shot here, reduce your file and when it comes to print let the shop who is doing the printing know that they need to enlarge to get it to be 100%