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Hello 

We have created a brochure in Affinity Publisher but once saved to a PDF to send to the printers we notice one of the linear transparency didn't pull through when the PDF was created.
Example a is the Affinity file (& how it should look) & example b is the PDF.

The image in question & indeed all the other images are "linked"

Any ideas?


Pete

Example a.jpg

Example b.jpg

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Hello & thanks for the reply

Open the file in Affinity, then click the "File" dropdown & then Export to PDF
For the PDF Preset use PDF/X-4 (as PDF/X options are especially for CYMK)
Raster DPI at 300
Set AREA to ALL PAGES
Make sure the Include Bleed is ticked
Then Hit the MORE button (scroll down a bit) & tick “Include printers marks”
AND change quality to 95

I have since looked at a few other similar things on the forum & the file that had the transparency (that didn't pull through to the pdf) was an image not pixel layer.
So i rasterized it & the pdf was ok  ...was that the right thing to do?

12G-SDI-4K-Brochure-ENG_V2-4.afpub

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