Daymo502 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Hi everyone, I made a document on Designer for iPad that contains text and vector shapes. When I export the document as a PDF, I end up with a flat image. I tried to export the entire things as a SVG to keep the vectors but same result. Do you know how this could be solved? (I’m looking for a solution similar to Sketch) Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 4, 2018 Staff Share Posted December 4, 2018 Hi Daymo502, Welcome to Affinity Forums Have you used any Layer Effects (FX) on the text/vector objects? FX Effects are all rasterised on export (using the dpi specified on document setup) no matter the format you choose (they are dynamic raster based effects, not vector based so there's no way to get them as editable/vector objects on export). Other features may also force rasterisation (depending on the export format/features you used) but without seeing the file it's difficult to guess the specific reason you are getting them rasterised or a flattened image. Reid Walley 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daymo502 Posted December 5, 2018 Author Share Posted December 5, 2018 Hi MEB, Thank you for the answer I thought it might be due to the layer effects too! but after removing everything, I still have the same result. I attached my file to help! Resume - Affinity forum.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaMo Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 I have stumbled on this post trying to solve a similar issue - text being rasterized for no reason when exporting PDF. I was able to solve this by ungrouping everything - I guess if you group text with images it all is being rasterized as one object. It is annoying working with no groups, but I ungrouped it in the end, just for the exporting purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmtp14 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 On 8/27/2021 at 5:06 PM, TaMo said: I have stumbled on this post trying to solve a similar issue - text being rasterized for no reason when exporting PDF. I was able to solve this by ungrouping everything - I guess if you group text with images it all is being rasterized as one object. It is annoying working with no groups, but I ungrouped it in the end, just for the exporting purpose. I very often export text and vector as pdf...usually without problems: but when I experience a problem its usually solved by converting the text to curves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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