Anyone tell me why this won't export correctly to pdf X-1a?

[imacken]

Exporting this file to pdf 'for Print' is fine, but it is corrupted if I use X-1a.

Any ideas?  I'm using windows version 1.6.5.123.

Watermill vegan menu.afdesign

[PaulEC]

I think it's to do with it being an image layer. Rasterize it and it works OK.

[imacken]

Thanks for that. Rasterizing the 'Watermill logo green' object works, but I don't really understand why.  I've done this kind of thing many times over the years, and not come across this issue.

[PaulEC]

I think it's to do with the way Affinity differentiates between image and pixel layers, and that the logo layer is semi-transparent.

[imacken]

Maybe, but there are several image layers in that file and they don't seem to cause a problem.

[MikeW]

fwiw, as is, the file seems to export fine with the current beta.

[imacken]

Thanks Mike.  That's interesting, as I have been looking into this, and there was something wrong with the Photo export of the png of the logo.  It seems that a white background was present even though I selected no background.  Anyway, I copied the green stuff from the logo in to a new document, exported as png without background again, and now if I import that into the menu doc, everything works OK!

So, it's very interesting that the beta prints it ok.