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We export PDFs from Designer and Place them into Publisher. When I check the linked PDFs in Resource Manager I find that some of them are at 72dpi and some at 400dpi. This intrigued me. I figured out that 72dpi was the Publisher Document DPI and that 400dpi was the Designer export rasterise setting. I concluded that Designer was exporting some of the PDFs as vectors and some rasterised. Further testing showed that the rasterised PDFs included a semi-opaque gradient fill over a colour fill. The rasterisation happened when this occurs with Layers or created in Appearance. Rasterisation does not happen when a semi-opaque gradient fill is exported on its own. Nor when a semi-opaque fill is over a colour fill.

The result of this is that our Publisher documents contain rasterised images which were created as vectors. The PDFs exported as rasterised are larger than those which are purely vectors. 

macOS 11.7.10

Designer 2.5.7

test files attached.

Cheers

Chris

apperance test.zip

 

 

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