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Hello everyone,

I have imported a PDF (of a circuit diagram) which, to my knowledge, contains no rasterised elements & should only be vectors.

However, when I go to export it as an SVG (or PDF) it warns me that "some parts will be rasterised".

Is there a simple way to find out where the culprit lies (i.e. is there a way to search out all bitmaps in the layer tree ?)

 

Thanks in advance,

Ben

Circuit.afdesign

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Some of the small yellow rectangles have a "Darken" blend mode applied to them

Select ALL the layers in the Layers Panel and change blend mode from "Normal" to something else then back to Normal

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Posted

Wow, thanks for the speedy reply Carl :),

I had no idea some of those effects were possible (or even that PDF's supported them).

As you suggested I have changed the blend to normal on all those parts to "Normal" and they now export as clean lines in the SVG & will import nicely into Word. (The file size has also come down which is what I was expecting). Strangely however, it still told me that parts will be rasterised so is there something else I need to disable (see Circuit2)

Out of interest, did you just know to look at "blends" from instinct or is there some way to determine when/where an unsupported element is on the page?

 

Circuit2.afdesign

Posted

There's a large grey rectangle in the middle of the diagram that has the blend mode Darken, that needs changing to Normal


Did you previously just change the yellow rectangles' blend mode to normal or ALL the layers?

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Posted

Thanks Carl,

TBH I thought I had changed everything to 'normal'. (I pressed ⌘-A to select all and then in the layer manager I toggled everything to 'darken' and then to back to 'normal').

Anyway, I found the area you mentioned (so not sure how I managed to omit that?) and the file is now exporting without any rastering :D

(Out of interest, is there a quick'n'easy way to find if any object/s have one of these effects turned on, or is the only way to scour through the layer manager ?)

Thanks again, Ben

Posted
4 hours ago, Bennyboos said:

(Out of interest, is there a quick'n'easy way to find if any object/s have one of these effects turned on, or is the only way to scour through the layer manager ?)

For small projects you can just "scroll" through the layers but for large projects with hundreds or thousands of layers it can be difficult and time consuming to find one layer with a different blend mode.

This may help in some situations...

Select all layers and group them
Duplicate the group
Set the blend mode on the top group to "Difference"

You should get a pure black document

Still on the top group select all the individual layers (not the group layer) and  toggle the blend mode to something else then back to Normal

The previously pure black document will now show some differences/distortions if any of the original layers were not set to Normal.  You should be able to pinpoint those layers and change them.

The above may not work for all blend modes and layer types but it will for most of them

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