Concept of live filters

[Joachim_L]

Maybe I did not understood the concept of Live Filters. As an advertised feature during the presentation of Publisher I had the impression, that it is an easy-to-use feature. Perhaps I did something wrong, but the Live Filters are not working out-of-the-box in the sense of PDF export. Does not work in the latest stable or latest beta. The Live Filter is applied, but the effect does not appear in the exported PDF. I can rasterize the layers of course, but is this the right way? Looking into the help files give me no help.

Any advice or help or information?

[Wosven]

Hi @Joachim_L

Can you provide some files? An example of how you use the live filters in a APub file, and of your resulting PDF explaining the problem. Perhaps screenshots of your PDF export settings can help too.

[Joachim_L]

Of course Wosven, thanks for your assistance.

1. Placing image.

2. Switching to Photo Persona.

3. Applying a small radial blur to the image.

4. Returning to Publisher Persona.

5. Export for print, no change in settings.

Files are attached.

 

livefilter.afpub

livefilter.pdf

[Wosven]

Thanks. Effectively, the only way to keep the effect is to go to Photo persona, hide all layers and create a new layer from visible layers (sorry, I freely translate from my French version!).

It will rasterize the layer and the effect (but you'll keep the original layer too).

Using this live filter in a document, on pictures, or on picture frames, or importing an AP document using the effect, the effect will disappear when exporting to PDF.

[Joachim_L]

Hmm, not very intuitive. At least this should be clearly described in the help section. But in the end I can live with this, once I know it.

 

[Wosven]

It looks like a bug. You should report it in the bug section, since I only give a work around. It would be better if it was rasterized when exporting as PDF.

[Joachim_L]

This was already reported several times. I just wanted to giveit  a bump in the hope that someone from Serif would answer if this is a bug or by design.

 

[MEB]

Thanks for the report Joachim_L. This is a bug. I'm checking if we already have this one logged and will do so in case it's not.

[EDIT] This is indeed logged to be looked at. Report bumped.