[Publisher2] PDF Export displays black border on white text in some viewers

[Mario Lurig]

Here is what the PDF looks like in Gmail PDF Preview (and however my son's elementary school is viewing them and how it printed by them):

This is what it looks like in Publisher and in Adobe Acrobat (free) and when I printed it at the library to test:

 

This was using the default PDF (for print) option, though I've tried setting color space to RGB and I also tried doing no rasterization; no difference in the export (both ideas from similar forum posts).

Needless to say, I'd rather resolve this in the export rather than fight with the printer (elementary school secretary) about her PDF viewer. I'm using only fonts default to Affinity Publisher & Windows 10.

Any thoughts?

Edited October 2, 2024 by Mario Lurig

[Mario Lurig]

After trying a bunch of different export options, I chose PDF (Flatten) and that seemed to get it closer in the gmail preview and thus more compatible.

[Hangman]

Hi @Mario Lurig and welcome to the forums,

Could you upload your Publisher file so we can take a look at what may be causing the issue you're seeing when previewing the file in Gmail...

[Mario Lurig]

@hangman Sure

2024-25-T1.afpub

[carl123]

You have a black stroke applied to the text. If you zoom in you will see it

[Mario Lurig]

So obvious and yet a complete fail by me. Thank you @carl123