Transparent picture (PNG) affecting color on textboxes when printing.

[Ole Thomas]

I have a picture (png) that is transparent. When I put it on top of a textbox with colorfill it looks perfect when in Publisher 2, but when printed, it effects the color in the text box. The color changes underneath the area of the transparent background in the picture. Is there some way of fixing this?

[NotMyFault]

When printing, use „merge visible“ to avoid those issues.

or rasterize the placed png.

Affinity has multiple unfixed bugs when dealing with exporting to PDF or printing

• CMYK and remaining transparency 
• placed files with transparency inside
• placed files with color format different from parent document 

In addition it matters if the print driver or Affinity does the color format conversion. 

[Ole Thomas]

Thank you for your answer. Where do I find the "merge to visible" - option? 🙂 

 

[Ldina]

3 hours ago, Ole Thomas said:

Where do I find the "merge to visible" - option?

Before printing, from the main menu, Layer > Merge Visible (or on Mac, you can use the keyboard shortcut, Shift-Option-Command-E). This will create a new "merged pixel layer" from all currently visible layers. (Your previous layers will still remain intact.) Make sure that the new merged layer is placed at the top of your layer stack before printing.