renate75 Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Good morning, I have the problem, that the documents, exporting to PDF ar much darker than in the Affinity Programs. What am I doing wrong? I'd be happy if you could help me. Renate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 The PDF and the Affinity document file would be helpful and with which settings you exported. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 What are your document settings and what are the PDF export settings - including the More... options if you have customised them? How have you gotten the background layer set up, have you used the layer opacity level, used a blend mode or something else? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renate75 Posted August 9, 2019 Author Share Posted August 9, 2019 I have reduced the the layer opacity level to 20%. The pictures above are excerpts from both files. But I'll insert the files again and also pictures from the settings for the export. Modiano.afpub Modiano.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 I assume an issue of Afpub with mixed color spaces and/or white as mask. As an easy workaround you can set the masking rectangle to NO fill color AND and instead reduce the image opacity from 20 to 5 %. – Then to me it looks like this: Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renate75 Posted August 9, 2019 Author Share Posted August 9, 2019 I didn't make a white mask. The image is directly on the background. Or did I misunderstand you? I haven't been working with this program that long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 21 hours ago, renate75 said: I didn't make a white mask. The image is directly on the background. Or did I misunderstand you? Sorry for my recent post with a wrong advice (I simply had set the cropping mask to invisble). You can follow your workflow in the "Layers Panel": see the masking rectangle below and 'inside' your image layer. You probably had pasted/placed the image directly on the page background – and then used the "Vector Crop Tool" to mask it at its upper/lower edge a little. It appears that the Vector Crop Tool item + Layer Opacity do display a different result than it will become exported. I posted a bug report: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/95173-vector-crop-tool-ui-opacity-bug/ As a workaround you can use the "Picture Frame tool" (instead Vector Crop Tool). To fix your file do: 1. delete all image + mask objects except 1. 2. in the Layers Panel: delete the masking layer (below the image layer). 3. on the page: right click on the image and choose "Convert To Picture Frame". 4. redo the cropping with the top/buttom handles at the "Picture Frame" object. 5. adjust the opacity as wanted, at either of the 2 layers. 6. copy/paste to fill your layout and export as before. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renate75 Posted August 10, 2019 Author Share Posted August 10, 2019 Perfect! It works! Thank you very much and many greetings to Kölle! thomaso 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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