DianeF Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 I am working through the Affinity Designer Workbook and am using the beta version of Designer (1.6.0, beta 7) because it's so much easier to be able to see file names, etc. on the light background. I just completed the Lace Frame exercises and tried to export my files to PDFs as indicated on page 358 of the workbook. I was able to export the Lace Frame Poster as both a low resolution and a high resolution file. But when I tried to export the Table Card, I got a blank document for the low resolution export except for printer marks which I hadn't asked for. For the high resolution export, I also got a blank document except for printer marks which, in this case, I had asked for. This appears to be a bug. I tried opening my file in the non beta version of Designer to see if I would have the same issue but was unable to do so because it had been created on a later version of Designer. Affinity Photo, V 2.3.1 Affinity Designer, V 2.2 Affinity Publisher, V 2.3.1 Mac Book Air, Sonoma, 14.2.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted September 4, 2017 Staff Share Posted September 4, 2017 Hey DianeF, Would it be possible for you to attach the file(s) in here so I can take a look at this please? How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DianeF Posted September 4, 2017 Author Share Posted September 4, 2017 Of course. I'm attaching them now. You can see that the two PDFs of the table card are very small. The PDFs of the poster were much bigger: 3.7 mg and 11.3 mgs for the high resolution PDF. Thanks for looking at this. Diane Lace Frame Table Card high res.pdf Lace Frame Table Card.pdf Poster_and_Table_Card_Practice.afdesign Affinity Photo, V 2.3.1 Affinity Designer, V 2.2 Affinity Publisher, V 2.3.1 Mac Book Air, Sonoma, 14.2.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 Hey Diane, that’s because your artboard with the table cards is actually empty, witnessed by the fact that the thumbnail in the layers list is blank. Simply take the groups you designed and make them children of your artboard in the layers list, and the artboard should export nicely. See my video. (Alternatively, you can select both groups on the canvas and move them a little away from the artboard and then back onto the artboard, but doing so might result in positioning issues. So I would suggest that you drag the groups in the layers list underneath the artboard as shown in my movie.) Cheers, Alex Empty.mov Chris B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DianeF Posted September 4, 2017 Author Share Posted September 4, 2017 Thanks, Alex. Moving the layer over resolved the problem. I don't think I fully understand the parent child layers relationship and how it plays out in different scenarios. I'm curious: how did you make your video? Diane Affinity Photo, V 2.3.1 Affinity Designer, V 2.2 Affinity Publisher, V 2.3.1 Mac Book Air, Sonoma, 14.2.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 Hi Diane, there are some videos regarding the parent-child-relationship among the tutorials created by the Affinity team. And I also made a short video myself some time ago. Have a look here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4069-layer-clipping-vs-layer-masking/&do=findComment&comment=16825 The Affinity tutorials are on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/107566766 (Layer Operations) https://vimeo.com/168186956 (Clipping Versus Masking) Oh, and my video was made with the QuickTime Player on the Mac. If you are on a Mac, simply launch the app, select File > New Screen Recording, and you are good to go. Cheers, Alex Chris B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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