Christian Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 The attached PDF is not displayed correctly by Affinity Designer 1.7.2 (App Store). Compare the screenshot from Preview with the screenshot from Designer after dragging the PDF into an empty document – note the missing shading crossing the horizontal line at level 8. Interestingly, when exporting a PDF from Affinity the shading in the exported PDF is correct (i.e., as in the original PDF), so this seems to be an error in the way it's displayed in Designer, not the PDF import. Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide to help! STRF sin-h e-o-fg.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 36 minutes ago, Christian said: note the missing shading crossing the horizontal line at level 8. The shading is there, as I can see it on my screen in your post. It's much fainter, though. It's also very faint if I File > Open your PDF in Designer. Quote -- 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted August 31, 2019 Author Share Posted August 31, 2019 Thanks Walt, you're right! Is this be a problem with my configuration of Designer then? I don't think I ever modified any color profiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 I noticed when I opened your PDF that Designer gave me a popup message about assigning sRGB to this unprofiled document. This leads me to suspect that it might be a mismatch between the chosen profile and whatever was used when originally creating the PDF. And also to wonder whether whatever created the PDF should have included color profile information. But that wouldn't explain why the PDF that Designer exports from yours shows the shading correctly. The exported PDF should match what was on screen in Designer, I think. Quote -- 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted September 1, 2019 Author Share Posted September 1, 2019 The original PDF was created with matplotlib (https://matplotlib.org) so I think it makes sense that it is unprofiled? It looks like the PDF exported by designer also does not contain a color profile, that would explain why it looks as the original in Preview? $ mdls -name kMDItemDisplayName -name kMDItemProfileName colortest.pdf kMDItemDisplayName = "colortest.pdf" kMDItemProfileName = (null) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted September 2, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 2, 2019 Hi Christian, Thanks for the file. It looks like when it is being imported it is adding a bunch of rectangles to crop it, but that is affecting the 20% Opacity on the objects which is making it appear more transparent than it should be. I'll get it passed on to development. If you open it in Designer and then expand the group and delete all the cropped objects on each of the curves you should see it'll correct the opacity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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