Problems exporting: Different colors in export

[Pbj]

Affinity Designer 2.5.7 Windows 11

This is driving me insane. I recently do a a mapping project. I have place names which i imported as curves and additional place names I added in Designer with the graphic text tool. So far so good, everything as expected This is how it looks in Designer:

The upper one is a curve, the lower one a graphic text. Both have the same color.

As soon as i export it as PDF the two place labels become different, color wise and quality wise:

I changed the export settings quite a bit, but I can't find a solution.

These are my export setting:

Any idea?

 

[GarryP]

In your first image, the top word has a different Stroke colour to that of the bottom word. I can’t see any difference between the individual colours in the first image and those in the second image, but my system is not properly colour managed.

If you can annotate the images to tell us where the different colours can be seen then that would help us to see what you mean.

In your second image the bottom word has been rasterised and I believe this might be because you have used the Outline Effect on it. To get round that you can apply a Stroke to the text instead of the Effect.

[Pbj]

Hi Garry,

that was a hot tip and solved my problem, thanks a lot!

I just changed the outline effect to stroke and the colors of the two words are now identical. It was probapbly due to the one word getting rasterzied.

💕

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.

It’s worth noting that applying any Effect, some Blend Modes, or any Live Filter (in Photo), to a layer will cause that layer – and any layers ‘affected’ by that layer – to require rasterisation upon export.