ChrisP Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I'm playing around with some flames where I have 3 layers. Bottom is an orange color, middle is only an inner glow of a reddish orange and top is a red gradient to give base of flame some more color. Every time I render a PDF I get pixelation. When I turn off the inner glow middle layer I only get pixelation toward the base where I have the red gradient. When I just render the bottom orange layer alone, everything is crisp. So my conclusion is most, if not all, effects and gradients will get rasterized on PDF export. Am I correct? If I am, is this a PDF export issue or is it something that has to be refined with AD? Just trying to trouble shoot this so I know how to build things, or render things, in the future. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 30, 2015 Staff Share Posted April 30, 2015 Hi Chris, All FX effects are rasterized. Linear gradients are kept as vector. All the others are rasterized. Support for vector elliptical gradients will be added in a future update. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 MEB, Quick question, aren't linear gradients that use a transparent fill also rasterized when exported to PDF and EPS? I know with EPS they are but I wasn't sure with PDF? For some reason, when I export any gradients as PDF (all linear gradients and all with regular solid fills in the gradient) they all get rasterized (at least if I open them up in Illustrator they appear as images but I'm using an old version of Illustrator and that might be the reason). Glad to hear that support for vector elliptical gradients will be added in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisP Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 I was just going to say the same thing. The linear gradient layer I have has a transparent fill in one end and it got rasterized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisP Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Forgive my ignorance about vectors but will there ever be a time when the effects will not be rasterized, say in a future update, or is this not possible (technology-wise)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted May 1, 2015 Staff Share Posted May 1, 2015 It's all about what the PDF specification allows for... and that differs based on version of PDF that you're targeting. At present we use Apple's built-in PDF output, so we have very little control, but we're already typing away at our own PDF export with support for user-selectable target PDF specification so we should be able to improve things a lot in the future :) Hokusai, smallreflection and A_B_C 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 This is great news, Matt … (at least this info was new to me) … can’t wait to see this in AD … :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisP Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Thanks for the info Matt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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