Roberta Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 I can't open PDF files in Affinity Photo 1.7 It simply won't open them or will crash trying. Maybe it's not supposed to open them even though I can see them as openable within the app? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 There are lots of different PDF files, made in lots of different apps. Some import better than others! Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta Posted June 6, 2019 Author Share Posted June 6, 2019 Just now, PaulEC said: There are lots of different PDF files, made in lots of different apps. Some import better than others! The PDF I tried to open is a scan I did myself of a sketch but you are right, I tried to open another random PDF and it worked... Is there a way to know exactly which PDFs APhoto can open? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Not really. There are problems with embedded fonts (Affinity can't use them), but that shouldn't be a problem with a scanned image. If you're scanning a sketch yourself, it might be better to use an image format (tiff or png are probably best) rather than scanning as a PDF. Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 6 minutes ago, Roberta said: The PDF I tried to open is a scan I did myself of a sketch but you are right, I tried to open another random PDF and it worked... Is there a reason you have for saving a scan of a sketch as a PDF instead of a JPEG or TIFF. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta Posted June 7, 2019 Author Share Posted June 7, 2019 12 hours ago, Old Bruce said: Is there a reason you have for saving a scan of a sketch as a PDF instead of a JPEG or TIFF. Hi Bruce, No the only reason was that I saved it as PDF by accident. Still I'd like to know why I can't open it in Affinity Photo.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 6 hours ago, Roberta said: Still I'd like to know why I can't open it in Affinity Photo.. Agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Could you upload the PDF so we could have a look at it? Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta Posted June 8, 2019 Author Share Posted June 8, 2019 15 hours ago, PaulEC said: Could you upload the PDF so we could have a look at it? Yep, I attached it draw-2.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Sorry, Roberta, I can't see what the problem is with this particular PDF file. It opens in several other apps, just not in Affinity! I can only think that there's something about the way your scanner creates the PDF that Affinity doesn't like, but there doesn't seem to be anything actually wrong with it. The best I can suggest, if you can't re-scan the drawing, is to install Irfanview or Sage Thumbs (both free) and convert the PDF to another file format. (PNG, TIFF or JPG). (Really like your drawing style, by the way.) Roberta 1 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 With some PDF application, you can simply right-click and copy-paste the image in an AD document. Or use the file > new from clipboard option. Roberta 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta Posted June 9, 2019 Author Share Posted June 9, 2019 6 hours ago, PaulEC said: Sorry, Roberta, I can't see what the problem is with this particular PDF file. It opens in several other apps, just not in Affinity! I can only think that there's something about the way your scanner creates the PDF that Affinity doesn't like, but there doesn't seem to be anything actually wrong with it. The best I can suggest, if you can't re-scan the drawing, is to install Irfanview or Sage Thumbs (both free) and convert the PDF to another file format. (PNG, TIFF or JPG). (Really like your drawing style, by the way.) Thanks PaulEC I think it will remain a mystery! I can scan it again as a jpg (already done) so it's not a problem Thanks for the compliments as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted June 19, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 19, 2019 I'm getting a 'could not be parsed' message—is this what you're seeing? I'll ask dev to take a look as I think we've fixed something like this before. Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Michell Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 I too get a "could not be parsed" message when trying to open pdfs which I have scanned. Photoshop CS4 can open them but none of the Affinity products can. Scan can't be parsed.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta Posted June 20, 2019 Author Share Posted June 20, 2019 16 hours ago, Chris B said: I'm getting a 'could not be parsed' message—is this what you're seeing? I'll ask dev to take a look as I think we've fixed something like this before. Hi Chris, to be honest I don't remember the exact message if there was one.. I think it just didn't do anything when I tried to open it. I have since deleted the files, but if you think it would be helpful, I will scan another one and see how it goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_r Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 I tried opening the image in the latest release version of AP and nothing happened - no dialogue box, no progress - nothing. Just out of interest I opened the draw-2 document in Preview and exported it as .pdf and called it a different name (draw-3). That opened fine in Affinity. Just thinking - if this happens again Preview intermediate step may be the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merde Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 On 6/7/2019 at 7:36 AM, Roberta said: Still I'd like to know why I can't open it in Affinity Photo.. This particular PDF file seem to lack large part of the header section. You can easily fix this by opening it in Adobe Acrobat Reader and saving it from there. Chris B 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Michell Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Thanks Merde. Opening the file in Acrobat and saving it enabled Affinity to open it. phil_r, can you explain how you open a file in preview? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta Posted June 20, 2019 Author Share Posted June 20, 2019 55 minutes ago, phil_r said: I tried opening the image in the latest release version of AP and nothing happened - no dialogue box, no progress - nothing. Just out of interest I opened the draw-2 document in Preview and exported it as .pdf and called it a different name (draw-3). That opened fine in Affinity. Just thinking - if this happens again Preview intermediate step may be the answer. Solved! I remembered that I had attached the PDF to this topic so I dowloaded it and tried again. At first try Affinity P simply didn't open it, no dialogue box etc Then I opened it with acrobat, simply saved with another name and now it works exactly as Merde and Phil were saying Chris B 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_r Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 3 hours ago, Andrew Michell said: Thanks Merde. Opening the file in Acrobat and saving it enabled Affinity to open it. phil_r, can you explain how you open a file in preview? Sorry Andrew I should have explained myself more clearly. I opened the .pdf in Apple's Preview program and exported as a .pdf with a different name from there. Preview obviously fixed up something in the file that people are also reporting Acrobat does. (I'm guessing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merde Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 4 hours ago, phil_r said: Preview obviously fixed up something in the file that people are also reporting Acrobat does. (I'm guessing) Your guessing correctly. This is a header of a broken file: %PDF-1.7 1 0 obj <</Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Name /Im1 /Width 2550 /Height 3508 /Length 900578 /ColorSpace /DeviceRGB /BitsPerComponent 8 /Filter [ /DCTDecode ] >> stream And this is a header of a file saved (no changes made, just "save as") in Acrobat Reader: %PDF-1.7 %âãÏÓ 7 0 obj <</Linearized 1/L 905820/O 9/E 901664/N 1/T 905529/H [ 436 137]>> endobj 12 0 obj <</DecodeParms<</Columns 3/Predictor 12>>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<659395BFB44F0C4AA90F570BF97EEE95><659395BFB44F0C4AA90F570BF97EEE95>]/Index[7 7]/Info 6 0 R/Length 36/Prev 905530/Root 8 0 R/Size 14/Type/XRef/W[1 2 0]>>stream hÞbbd`b`Òeb`°ab`ܤ™þ>² !éÅ endstream endobj startxref 0 %%EOF 13 0 obj <</Filter/FlateDecode/I 69/Length 58/S 36>>stream hÞb```f``üÀÀÀÀ»9&`aà@â1C1C"ƒkÃíG ¼J4#0 endstream endobj 8 0 obj <</Metadata 1 0 R/Pages 5 0 R/Type/Catalog>> endobj 9 0 obj <</Contents[10 0 R]/CropBox[0 0 578 795]/MediaBox[0 0 578 795]/Parent 5 0 R/Resources<</ProcSet[/PDF/ImageC/ImageB/ImageI]/XObject<</Im1 11 0 R>>>>/Rotate 0/Type/Page>> endobj 10 0 obj <</Length 47>>stream q 577.36 0 0 794.26 0.00 0.00 cm 1 g /Im1 Do Q endstream endobj 11 0 obj <</BitsPerComponent 8/ColorSpace/DeviceRGB/Filter[/DCTDecode]/Height 3508/Length 900578/Name/Im1/Subtype/Image/Type/XObject/Width 2550>>stream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 Thanks everyone for the help I wonder why my HP scanner creates those PDF abominations XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sstlaurent Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 I had the same problem: any pdf file made from a scan with my HP Office Jet Pro 8600 was impossible to open in Windows APublisher 1.8.3. This bugged me a lot. Recently, Adobe didn't allow the activation of my old licence of Acrobat Pro on a new computer. I decided to switch an use APublisher for all my pdf needs. I found out that after saving my initial scan with a pdf extension, I can open it with the FREE Acrobat Reader and proceed to the Save As… operation in order to open it in APublisher for editing. This procedure suits my needs. A wishful thinking: if a pdf file already managed in APublisher could simply be «saved» instead of always having to export it whenever I modify it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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