vjsouza Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Hey, Guys. Today I had a great headache working with Affinity Beta 1.7.0.258 I have discovered that it is no longer possible to use artboards in Affinity Designer and export to PDF / X-1a AD exports EVERYTHING that is inside an artboard with a simple flattened bitmap image without transparency. I could work around the problem by avoiding the use of artboards. But so I could no longer export PDF with multiple pages. Please, guys, fix this thing. I need a lot to export my PDFs with multiple pages. I have provided the source files and PDFs exported by me, with and without the problem. Please check it out one by one. Test within artboard.afdesign Test within artboard.pdf Test without artboard.afdesign Test without artboard.pdf WITH ARTBOARD.afdesign WITH ARTBOARD.pdf WITHOUT ARTBOARD.afdesign WITHOUT ARTBOARD.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 This is a known issue with this level of the beta, at least on Mac. I'm not sure I've seen a report on Windows, but it's probably the same on both platforms. This kind of possibility is the reason that Serif warns us not to use the beta for production work or anything critical or time-sensitive, of course. vjsouza and Sean P 1 1 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapher Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 its same problem as i have in my previous post from this week.... you can select rasterize NOTHING in the settings. Still, when you have single image/shadow in your artwork, you are doomed.This bug is pain in ass. More, when the flattering having bugs - see my post if you are working just with transparency, you can use PDF/X-4 with no raster setting... in my opinion, there is no reason using PDF / X1a today... only if you are working with some archaic print studio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted March 15, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 15, 2019 Hi vjsouza, This is a known issue that has now been fixed by development so will be resolved in the next build. grapher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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