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Hello all,

I've encountered an issue which seems to be present on affinity designer and publisher. Is it user error or a bug?

I made a business card using publisher which was all fine, I used the preset styles (cog shaped icons)  and just changed the colour. I found when it came to exporting I did the usual CMYK pdf, 300dpi and the text came out very blurry and pixelated. I tried again as an eps and jpeg, then opened in adobe illustrator just to see, the same result. I then had a thought to export as a 600dpi file and the quality improved but not enough and finally exporting as a 1200 dpi pdf did the trick with the quality I was expecting for printing.

In my experience, I've never had to export more than 300dpi, I've worked in a small print shop since 2014 and we print half our jobs in-house and the other half are trade supplied

I'm attaching screenshots.


 

top affinty publisher, bottom 300dpi best quality export jpeg.JPG

top affinty publisher, bottom 300dpi best quality export eps, then opened in illustrator.JPG

1200 dpi exported pdf.JPG

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The effects or adjustments you're using are probably not supported in a vector format, and cause rasterization when you export.

-- Walt
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1) How can one tell if an effect is 'not supported' -- if it's not greyed out, it should work all the way to print.

2) yes it needs rasterising but it would seem that the code is not rasterising correctly

 

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2 minutes ago, gw_westdale said:

if it's not greyed out

If it (what) is not grayed out where? Until you get ready to export, and choose your export options, there's no way that the application can guess whether what you're trying to do will work. At that time, it tells you whether you've done something that will be rasterized. It might be nice if it would tell you what would be rasterized, but I don't think it does that. It does give you the opportunity not to rasterize, and to accept whatever results that gives.

What is supported depends in part on the PDF export options you've chosen, and the PDF level you've asked for. Later PDF versions support more non-rasterized effects, I believe, but I'm afraid I don't know enough to provide further details. Sorry.

-- 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

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