Ray C Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 I have PDF files that open as blank pages. PDFs are attached. These files also open as blanks in Affinity Photo. These files are likely just raster scans, nothing fancy. Other PDF files open as expected. Win 10. Affinity Publisher 1.7.0.238. 1994TrekCatalog_22.pdf 1994TrekCatalog_10.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 (edited) Strange. What image type was placed? Is the image OCR'ed from a print? Used obviously JPXDecode. A PDF preflight showed, that the compression of the image is forbidden for PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3. Inside Acrobat Pro I converted the image to sRGB and saved the file. Now I am able to place or open it. EDIT: Publisher has problems with the compression of the images. With pdfToolbox I changed the compression to JPEG-Compression (DCTDecode) and opening or placing wasn't a problem anymore. Edited February 19, 2019 by Joachim_L Another test run ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray C Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 I do not know who or how these PDFs were made, I was extracting content from them for use in another document. I don't have Adobe tools to do this, I rely on the Affinity tools. I downloaded a free tool that converted these to images that I could use. https://www.nchsoftware.com/imageconverter/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 (edited) Just a hint: You can easily "repair" these PDF by opening and saving them with IrfanView. I just ran a test and it worked. To minimize the extra work you can make a batch to convert them all at once. Edit: You can use IrfanView as well to convert to various formats. Never had problems with this tool. Edited February 20, 2019 by Joachim_L Added information Ray C 1 ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray C Posted March 6, 2019 Author Share Posted March 6, 2019 Joachim. I didn't have IrfranView installed, and have never used it much in the past; but I did install it today and . . . 1. It opened up the 10 page pdf file realy quickly. This could be the fastest pdf viewer I have. 2. I quickly and easily re-saved the file, which then opened in Publisher. Nice fix. Reminds me of the work-arounds we used to do at work. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray C Posted March 6, 2019 Author Share Posted March 6, 2019 Joachim. I also re-saved the original pdf file using my PDF-XChange viewer, and the resultant file also opened right up in Publisher. So, I've learned a thing or two here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted January 21, 2020 Staff Share Posted January 21, 2020 We have made fixes/improvements to this area (PDF's not opening images) of the program in the latest customer beta. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below. The latest beta builds are downloadable from links at the top of each of these beta forum posts. Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.535 for Windows Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.535 for Mac These betas install parallel, next to the release version (they do not overwrite your release) and so the fixes can be tried in the beta without affecting your normal workflow in the release version. Once these programs have been through a full beta process the change will be released in a future free 1.8.0 update/patch to all customers. Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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