Inkywells Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Evening, When I export my document as a PDF the images are corrupt. Its only some of the images, not all of them and not constantly the same image. I can PDF the document 3 or 4 times and I get different pictures corrupting every time. I have tried different setting of PDF export. I have tried RGB and CMYK images, Hi Res and Lo Res, Embedded and linked images. Its not just one document is on everything I try. Even on Jobs that I have previously PDF'ed and sent to print. There doesn't seem to be any pattern and the only way Im getting around it is to PDF the whole Doc, check it and re PDF the Corrupt page until it works. The only pattern I have seen is that the corruption is always at the top of the picture, but not alway corrupt the same way! These are a few examples of what Im getting. Can anyone help, had this before, anything else I can try? Im running 2.5.3 Thanks JON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Maybe give a few details about your system and it's spec, also do you ahve the latest graphic drivers? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkywells Posted August 14 Author Share Posted August 14 M2 Pro Mac Mini, 16GB, Sonoma 14.5. Don't know about graphics driver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkywells Posted August 14 Author Share Posted August 14 Do you think its worth going back to a earlier version, as Ive never had this issue before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 15 minutes ago, Inkywells said: Do you think its worth going back to a earlier version, as Ive never had this issue before? Where did you install from, the Mac App Store or the Affinity Store? Assuming it was from the Affinity Store (since you mentioned 2.5.3 and the MAS should have given you 2.5.4 by now) you could uninstall 2.5.3, and download an earlier 2.5 or 2.4 release from https://affinity.store/update/macos/publisher/2 and see if it works better. Note, though, that 2.4 might not be able to open some documents you've updated using 2.5. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkywells Posted August 14 Author Share Posted August 14 Thanks Walt. Rolled back to 2.4 and its all "back to normal" That was an easier fix that what I thought. Surprised no one else has had the same issues! walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 This could be AF-2072, which applies to Affinity apps on "M"-based Mac machines and happens when you have Hardware Acceleration enabled in Settings, Performance. And it may also have something to do with having JPG Compression enabled (or not) in the PDF Export settings. But I'm not sure which Affinity V2 releases that one applies to. firstdefence and Inkywells 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkywells Posted August 15 Author Share Posted August 15 Walt...Ive just tried it with and without JPG compression and your right. If you turn off JPG Compression the images corrupt. In my hast to test the roll back I didn't have the same setting as before. Ill update to the latest version and test it again.....Thank you!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 You're welcome. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user_0815 Posted Friday at 11:57 AM Share Posted Friday at 11:57 AM I've just come across this when exporting for the print shop. It doesn't matter whether jpeg compression is on or off, but switching between these two settings is what lets the images appear correct again (temporarily). Intersting that it dates back to October 2021. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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