Export to PDF containing embedded SVG produces inconsistent results

[neilt17]

I have an Affinity designer document containing an embedded SVG. This SVG includes rectangles which have colour gradients and was itself created with Affinity Designer. I export to PDF using the "for print" setting. If I open the exported PDF using Firefox, everything looks fine. If I open it with Edge, the colours are darkened significantly. If I open it with Affinity Designer 2 the rectangles are not visible.

If I copy all of the objects from the SVG file into the document, instead of embedding the SVG, and then export, the PDF now displays correctly in all of these programmes.

Is this a bug? I need to be sure that PDFs I send to printers are correct.

 

[walt.farrell]

Is there any possibility you can share the .afdesign document with the embedded SVG file, and the SVG file itself here, publicly? If so that should make diagnosis simpler. 

Or if not that document, can you embed the SVG into a different .afdesign document and demonstrate the same problem, and share that one (and the SVG)?

[lacerto]

I would check if your gradients have transparencies (basically fully compatible but variably supported) included:

 

I do not know whether this is expected behavior, but have noticed that often PDF files from stock object sites containing transparencies / certain blend modes in vector shapes, or meshes created and saved as PDF from Illustrator, while fully "online compatible" (e.g. measured by utilities like Adobe Acrobat Pro), do not open correctly in Affinity apps.

[neilt17]

Yes, the gradients do have varying transparencies.

I have attached the document with the embedded SVG that causes the problem, plus the SVG file that was embedded.

Commtap logo poster with embedded colour gradient svg.afdesign

communication support.svg

[NathanC]

Hi @neilt17 apologies on the very delayed response,

I've logged this with the developers for further investigation into these inconsistent PDF outputs.