Exporting to any file type fails to render embedded images

[roseg0ld]

I am producing a brochure for a product in Designer. In the interface everything looks great but when I export to any file format the images embedded in my file either export as black rectangles or mangled versions of the proper image. I'm including screenshots of my affinity window where everything looks fine and an example of a failed pdf export.  

Brochure Inside.pdf

[stokerg]

Hi roseg0ld and Welcome to the Forums,

Would you be able to attach the .afdesign file? 

One thing you can try, if you right click on that image and select Rasterise, then export to PDF, how do the images appear then?

[roseg0ld]

Thanks! I love affinity so far and I'm excited to get better at using it.

I'm attaching one of the two .afdesign files to this post. When I Rasterize the image in the file they glitch out completely and become black and white rectangles. Brochure Outside.afdesign

Brochure_Inside.afdesign

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, roseg0ld said:

I'm attaching one of the two .afdesign files to this post. When I Rasterize the image in the file they glitch out completely and become black and white rectangles.

I couldn't down load the Outside file but the Brochure_Inside file has a ... how to put it... notched black rectangle in one of the image's place on the page. There is a thumbnail preview on the layers panel. When I selected the image and drew it out using the handles I could see an image but copying it resulted in the clipboard having only 'text' on it and the attempt at making a new document from the clipboard gave me the news that the object has no physical dimensions. There were pixel dimensions on the original layer/image according to Designer.

I would think there is something wrong with your original image, a mask perhaps. Is it just the one image on the Brochure_Inside document that is busted?

Edit forgot to include a screen shot. I turn off the visibility of most everything else after dragging it out to the huge size.

[Old Bruce]

I just opened it in Publisher and wow you have problems with those pictures. All but two show the problems with the black white rectangles, when viewed at less than 100% I can see them all properly but I noticed they all have the same name 'image.png or .jpeg'

Now it is causing Designer Beta to crash so that is all for now.

[roseg0ld]

Thank you so much for looking into this! What I'm gathering is that these images got corrupted somehow, we were back and forth between working off a google drive and working from local memory so perhaps something got messed up there. 

Is there anything to be done aside from editing those images again and then reinserting them? Can you gather anything from the situation that could help us avoid this happening again?

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, roseg0ld said:

Is there anything to be done aside from editing those images again and then reinserting them? Can you gather anything from the situation that could help us avoid this happening again?

"editing those images again and then reinserting them" is what I would do for this instance, also I would only use local drives, apparently there are problems with networked drives and the various cloud flavours.