Exporting to PDF- losing color

[Madeline]

When I exported my 44 pages of color illustrations into a PDF as one document, 2 of the pics went from color to shades of gray.  Exporting the same 2 pages as individual PDFs keeps the color but I am supposed to get all the pages into one PDF file, as per the directions of CreateSpace on Amazon.com  I am baffled and frustrated, not knowing how to correct this problem.   I appreciate any help you can offer me.  Thank you!

[MEB]

Hi Madeline,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

How are you inserting the colour illustrations/images in your document? Directly as images or as embedded documents (you can check this looking at the label between parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers panel)?

[Madeline]

They either say group, curve, art text, or rectangle and appear to be set up no differently than the other 42 pages.  The odd thing is they export into PDFs perfectly when done separately and only go black and white as part of the whole document.  I am a complete novice at this so I am not even sure if I've answered your question exactly but truly hoping you can help guide me through this obstacle.  Thanks!

[MEB]

Hi Madeline,

​Can you please upload the file using this link so I can take a look? All files will be deleted after being checked.

Don't forget to add your forum's username (@Madeline) to the file name before uploading it.

Also which PDF preset are you using?

Thanks.

[Petar Petrenko]

For emergency, separate the document into parts.

For example, if the problematic pages are 25 and 32 then separate the document this way: 1-24, 25, 26-31, 32, 33-44. Then combine them into Acrobat.

[Madeline]

The PDF preset is Flatten because CreateSpace on Amazon.com emphasized that the pages must be flattened.  I will upload the file for you.  Thank you also for the other suggestion.  I am so new at this and would be willing to try except that the self-publishing platform wants submission in PDF format.  I appreciate your response.

[Madeline]

It is page 3 and page 42 that are the problematic pages.  Many  thanks!  It is uploading now.  

[Madeline]

I believe the problem may be solved.  I did another export but unchecked the box “don’t export layers that are hidden by layer persona”.  

Then all 44 pages came out in color.  I hope unchecking the box will not cause any problems when I upload to Createspace.  Does this simple solution sound right to you?

 

Thank you both for your time and suggestions.  

[MEB]

Hi Madeline,

I'm not able to replicate this here. All pages are being exported in colour.

Are you using Designer Beta for Windows?

 

Regarding your question, no, that option "Don't export Layers hidden by Export persona" shouldn't make any difference here. It's not related with the issue at hand.

[Madeline]

Thank you so much for your time.  Exporting without that box checked seems to have solved the problem as all my pics are in color and they uploaded to Create Space successfully from my MacBook.  I went from Affinity Designer directly to PDF and am so glad this problem seems to be solved.  I just need to check out the previewer to see if there are any problems.  I haven't been able to do that yet but hope to tackle it tomorrow.   Many thanks!

[Petar Petrenko]

Glad to hear you solved the problem.  :)

[Madeline]

Thanks! :)