Referencing .afpub files in publisher-document

[Anooky]

1. What Application are you using? [Designer/Photo/Publisher]
   Publisher
2. Are you using the latest release version? 2.5.5
3. Can you reproduce it? yes
   Does it happen for a new document? If not can you upload a document that shows the problem?
4. If you cannot provide a sample document then please give an accurate description of the problem for example it should include most of the following:

•    What is your operating system and version (Windows 11, OSX Ventura, iOS 16 etc)? Mac OS
•    What happened for you (and what you expected to happen)
  I have multiple documents (in my case booklets of a game) that share a couple of central documents (e.g. Impressung, rules of the game, welcome page, title page, etc.). When I drag and drop them into the booklet document, it looks fine on print and PDF export, but on the printer (HP Laserjet Prof 5225), it is blurry/has a shadow.
•    Provide a recipe for creating the problem (step-by-step what you did).
  Create a document, add some text. Save it.
  Create another document.
  Drag and drop the first document into it.
  Add another textbox as reference to see the difference.
  Print the second document. The referenced file is blurry/has a shadow. the other text is crisp and sharp.
•    Screenshots (very handy) or a screen capture/video

[Catshill]

Copy the text on page two and paste it as plain text to remove any formatting.

[Anooky]

@Catshill, if I do that, the print out is fine, however that's not what I want. The idea of the referenced file is that I can make central changes that will be reflected in all booklets. If I copy-paste it will break the link.

[Old Bruce]

Your screenshot really looks like you have a couple of drop shadows applied to the page on the right. One for the text and one for the page itself.

[Lee D]

@Anooky Without taking a look at the file it's hard to confirm and as @Old Bruce suggests it looks like a shadow is applied to the text.

Can you provide a sample document that we can take a look at?

[Anooky]

@Lee D Sure - I can confirm I have no shadows applied whatsoever.

Referencing page.afpub Referenced page.afpub

[Oufti]

I don't have a printer at hand but I would be curious to see what happens if you setup your referenced document to 1200 ppi (File menu > Document setup), before replacing it in the Referencing document? 

Presently, your Referenced page placed in the Referencing file is shown there as a 2480 x 3507 pixels file @ 300 ppi; even if it only contains vectorial data, I wonder if the placed document resolution could intervene when printing…?

Something that I'm sure of is that, when 300 pixels per inch is usually enough for printing continuous tones, to print line art or black text correctly you're better to use the maximum resolution of your printer (≥1200 dpi).
Thus I would give this a try…

[Anooky]

@Oufti thanks for your idea, I would consider that as a work around the bug I filed. My expectedation would be that publisher can resolve its own file types without quality loss as if it's native in the master document. That's the beauty of nested documents.

[Old Bruce]

@Anooky, Try exporting to a PDF and then print the PDF instead of printing from Publisher.

[HCl]

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[Anooky]

@Return It's snapped to the top left corner.
@Old Bruce Same outcome with PDF. That's what makes me conclude it's a bug.