Affinity Photo opens JPEG files at 72 dpi

[APEGamer]

I export from InDesign at JPEG 300 dpi CMYK, but when I open the file in Affinity Photo it's 72dpi and a lot bigger size. I can easily go in and change it back to 300 dpi (and smaller size) but it's kind of a bother when I've got dozens of files.

 

[Dan C]

Hi APEGamer

I'm very sorry to hear this! Could you please provide your JPEG image here so I can investigate this for you?

[APEGamer]

Here is a PDF of the card in Acrobat Pro, properly formatted. This is what I sent to my printer.

In the meantime, I want to have another print/play company turn around a quick copy of the game I can use for the summer conventions. They want the cards in JPEG format, so I import the PDF into Affinity (I tried both Publisher and Photo):

 Notice that the title font got messed up (even though it shows as Cambria Bold 14 pt in both programs) as well as the cube font. I build the cubes in InDesign using grep, which isn't yet available in Affinity, so that explains the cubes but I'm not sure about the card title.

This has caused me to export from InDesign to JPEG, to avoid the font problems altogether. But I find that even though I export at 300 dpi:

Affinity Photo loads it as 72 dpi:

Since I wrote my original post, I found that if I export to JPEG from Acrobat instead of from InDesign, it loads as a proper 300 dpi image in Affinity, so I'm past this problem.

Any input you have on the font issues would be appreciated. I'd love to simply load the PDF into Affinity Photo, and for some files I can do that, but the fonts for this game seem to cause problems for Affinity. I'm trying to make the switch off Adobe, but things like this require that I maintain the Adobe subscription.

Kevin

 

[APEGamer]

Oh, and here's 72dpi JPEG image.

[walt.farrell]

12 minutes ago, APEGamer said:

Oh, and here's 72dpi JPEG image.

For looking at file details, it can be important to zip a .jpg or .png file, as otherwise the forum software may make changes to the image. So, if you could provide a .zip of that rather than just the image, that would be helpful.

[APEGamer]

Sorry, here is the file zipped.

 

MonsterCards_final.zip

[walt.farrell]

Thanks.

Exiftool says it's a 300dpi image, yet Affinity Photo says it's 72dp. I'm not sure why.

[APEGamer]

I know, right?!

I'm running version 1.7.1.404.

 

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Exiftool says it's a 300dpi image

What’s more, the file doesn’t even contain any Exif info as such. The 300dpi info comes from the file header.

I don’t know if it’s relevant that it’s a CMYK JPEG, but what seems more likely to be relevant is the fact that the header identifies the file type as ‘Photoshop 3.0’ rather than ‘JFIF’.

[v_kyr]

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$ identify -verbose MonsterCards_final.jpg
Image: MonsterCards_final.jpg
  Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
  Mime type: image/jpeg
  Class: DirectClass
  Geometry: 815x1110+0+0
  Resolution: 300x300
  Print size: 2.71667x3.7
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[Dan C]

Thanks for your image APEGamer, I'm not currently certain why this is importing into Affinity at 72dpi. I've just tried exporting an image as a 300 DPI CMYK JPEG (all the acronyms ) then reopened this is Affinity and the correct DPI is read. I'll log this JPEG with our developers to be investigated further, but as it's reporting a different DPI through various methods (see v_ykr's post above) it may be an issue with InDesigns exporter, especially considering -

On 7/20/2019 at 4:19 PM, APEGamer said:

I found that if I export to JPEG from Acrobat instead of from InDesign, it loads as a proper 300 dpi image in Affinity

I'll update this thread with any information regarding this file provided by the developers

Could you provide a copy of your PDF file so I can look into the font issue for you? I've not previously seen the correct font be detected, but not applied on PDF import!

[MEB]

This should be fixed in the latest build (issue reading metadata). Affinity Photo should now report 300 dpi as well.

[APEGamer]

Excellent, thanks!

Per the @Dan C request, here is a PDF that shows the font issue. Photo finds and loads Cambria Bold in the title, but it got the case and spacing wrong. The cube font in the card's body isn't right, but that's to be expected - I used Adobe's grep to color it.

Kevin

MonsterCards_final.pdf

[Dan C]

Thanks for that Kevin, I can see the the 'small caps' isn't being correctly read on import, which in turn is messing up the spacing.

I'll get this logged with our developers for investigation, many thanks!  

[APEGamer]

Awesome - thanks for tracking down both issues!