Text is removed in PDF if text is not visible

[Jordandd]

Hey all,

I was trying to modify a physical document converted into a PDF, which supports highlighting text even if the text was just an image. I noticed text imported properly as text frame objects, but Affinity couldn't export those text frames properly.

I tested some stuff and it looks like text frames are ignored on export when the following is true:

1. Text has no color
2. Text frame object has an opacity of 0 (layer).

Alternatives that can by-pass this issue:

1. Setting the RGBA, with an alpha of 0 -> [0, 0, 0, 0] (in the color wheel, set a color and set the opacity under the color wheel to 0)
2. Setting the layer blend mode to something that makes your text "invisible" (ex.: lighten with black text)

Since these kinds of documents import in Affinity with no color by default, the text frame will always succeed on import and will always fail on export.
Would it be possible to support exporting invisible text for this use case? If not, could text with no color be converted to an RGBA value of (0, 0, 0, 0) to support this?

Thanks!

 

Jordan

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[NathanC]

Hi @Jordandd,

I've logged this with the developers for further investigation and confirmation. Just as an additional note I did compare to Illustrator and found that text with no fill colour assigned will also not export out to PDF from Illustrator, but 0% text opacity did export.

It's also worth noting that this is unlikely to be retrospectively fixed in V1.