Ewa Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Hi, I have a problem with saving an illustration as pdf for printing and saving it as psd and eps. When I'm trying to save a file affinity designer (ipad version) is suddenly closing by itself and the process of generating export is never finished. I will be very grateful for your help guys... I really don't know what's wrong and how to solve this issue for_print.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Ewa said: Hi, I have a problem with saving an illustration as pdf for printing and saving it as psd and eps. When I'm trying to save a file affinity designer (ipad version) is suddenly closing by itself and the process of generating export is never finished. I will be very grateful for your help guys... I really don't know what's wrong and how to solve this issue for_print.afdesign Unfortunately I can’t open the file on my original 9.7” iPad Pro. Perhaps someone with a newer device with more RAM can try otherwise it will probably have to have a developer open it to debug what is wrong.. edit: seems to open ok on my MacBook. I’ll have a look at it. Quote My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools…. Just waiting for Ronny Pickering….. Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on macOS Sonoma 14 on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on Windows 10 Pro. Deceased Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.4 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS 17.4 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewa Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 19 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said: Unfortunately I can’t open the file on my original 9.7” iPad Pro. Perhaps someone with a newer device with more RAM can try otherwise it will probably have to have a developer open it to debug what is wrong.. Thank you very much for your answer. If this information might help somehow in the future: I drew this illustration on ipad pro 12,9" and when I'm trying to zoom little elements (affter adding textures to the mountains and more little elements like grass or dandelions) the app turns off suddenly, so exactly the same happens when I'm trying to generate a pdf, eps and psd file. It works with jpeg and png as far as I've tried. But I need to export this file for print and as eps file too. Also if I want I can't zoom so much the whole project to see the details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 3 minutes ago, Ewa said: Thank you very much for your answer. If this information might help somehow in the future: I drew this illustration on ipad pro 12,9" and when I'm trying to zoom little elements (affter adding textures to the mountains and more little elements like grass or dandelions) the app turns off suddenly, so exactly the same happens when I'm trying to generate a pdf, eps and psd file. It works with jpeg and png as far as I've tried. But I need to export this file for print and as eps file too. Also if I want I can't zoom so much the whole project to see the details. Seems to perform ok on MacBook, including exporting as pdf. I’m out of the house now in my car now so will look again when I return home unless someone else spots anything wrong. Quote My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools…. Just waiting for Ronny Pickering….. Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on macOS Sonoma 14 on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on Windows 10 Pro. Deceased Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.4 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS 17.4 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 The file opens fine on my iPad Pro 10.5 but not generating PDF. I will see if I can find what is causing it. Ewa 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 PDF export from Mac seems ok, but EPS export seems to be taking ages to do. for_print.pdf Quote My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools…. Just waiting for Ronny Pickering….. Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on macOS Sonoma 14 on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on Windows 10 Pro. Deceased Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.4 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS 17.4 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewa Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 47 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said: PDF export from Mac seems ok, but EPS export seems to be taking ages to do. for_print.pdf Thank you so much for sharing pdf but the textures and gradients I used for mountains for example didn't appear in pdf... how can I fix it? It's my first drawing ever I want to print and I will appreciate any advice how to fix this... I only use ipad for drawing and I don't have desktop version of affinity designer. If you also can't export eps it means I can't use any textures or maybe I drew too many elements? What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Think it is just the complexity of the parts, here is the pdf hopefully with the missing info. The EPS file took over 3 hours to produce on my MacBook. Hopefully a developer will know why. for_print.eps for_print.pdf DM1 and Ewa 2 Quote My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools…. Just waiting for Ronny Pickering….. Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on macOS Sonoma 14 on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on Windows 10 Pro. Deceased Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.4 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS 17.4 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewa Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 52 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said: Think it is just the complexity of the parts, here is the pdf hopefully with the missing info. The EPS file took over 3 hours to produce on my MacBook. Hopefully a developer will know why. for_print.eps for_print.pdf Unfortunatelly pdf didn't export gradients and textures. It looks very different than the original affinity designer file Well, I'm really grateful for your help. Thank you! Now I'm kind of terrified that it took you over 3 hours to export eps file cause I can't even open it on my ipad... while importing the file affinity designer shuts down... so maybe the problem is as you said complexity of the illustration or something else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewa Posted May 12, 2019 Author Share Posted May 12, 2019 Hello Everyone, Just wanted to make a little update in case someone else in the future will face the same problem as me. I figured out that the issue probably comes from Frankentoon Propaganda kit textures I used in the illustration. First of all I removed all of the gradients from my illustration and then I removed all textures from Frankentoon Propaganda kit. Then I was able to export my file as PDF. Before when I couldn't export file as PDF I used textures and applied them as texture masks. Now I used same textures but as styles and I removed gradients. I can export PDF and EPS with no problem. But I have another question, how can I use gradients and then export them as PDF? Is there any chance to do this? I would love to learn how to make illustration with gradients and then print it. My second question occured after I exported file to PDF. I don't know what happened with some objects after exporting, it looks like the position of them changed and I don't know why. I saved my file a few times and it always looks different than in .afdesign Thank you in advance for your help guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 I found I could print the first 13 layers but after adding the 14th it was too much for the iPad. Untitled-13.pdf Ewa 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewa Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 56 minutes ago, DM1 said: I found I could print the first 13 layers but after adding the 14th it was too much for the iPad. Untitled-13.pdf Thank you very much for the help! I messed up a lot in my first file, but finally I removed a lot of hidden layers, groups... textures and it works now. For sure it would perform better on desktop version of Affinity Designer. It was too much for the iPad as you said! If anyone will have some free time to see my updated file and check out what happens with little owl's position after exporting to PDF/X-4 please let me know discovering_mother_nature-1.afdesign discovering mother nature-1.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Looking at your pictures above I would say it’s a layer positioning issue. In PDF format the layer is showing above the truck. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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