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jeremyp7143294
Participant
October 23, 2018
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Flipped photos when I export as PDF

  • October 23, 2018
  • 13 replies
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Hi,

I recently had a bug : In a website prototype, most of my photos (not all of them) were flipped upside down when I exported as PDF my project.

When I export as PNG it's all perfectly fine but I want to be able to export as PDF without this problem 😕😕

Is anyone having this problem ? Is there a solution or is this a new -not well know- bug ?

Thanks for your help

-Jeremy !

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Correct answer AntoineSF

SOLUTION: I just ran into this issue myself with a pdf from XD. Was able to solve the issue by opening the bugged pdf in adobe illustrator, and re-exporting it from there.

13 replies

Participant
February 27, 2019

This issue arises when you tweak the opacity settings of the image from within XD. At 100% opacity the image doesn't flip. Atleast this was how it was in my case. As a workaround I had to tweak the opacity outside of XD, say on Photoshop or other softwares and save it as image and then use this image in XD. Also this was happening only when viewing the PDF on a mobile device running iOS.

paul153
Participant
February 15, 2019

It does seem to be a Mojave issue. When you quickview or open an exported PDF with images in Preview, the images are flipped, tiled etc. In the meantime, a workaround is to open the PDF in Acrobat and Export as Other > Optimised PDF, it will be OK in Mojave.

PS, reinstalling XD will not help as someone previously advised.

Ares Hovhannesyan
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 23, 2018

I can't reproduce your bug. My pdf exported as expected. Image have the same position as on artboard. Did you try with simple project?

jeremyp7143294
Participant
October 23, 2018

I tried with a simple project but it's the same :/ (I forgot to mention on the first message but : not only it's upside down but the image repeat itself strangely)

Ares Hovhannesyan
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2018

In this case , may be, reinstalling Adobe XD CC can help or there is some problems with pdf preview application. Some setting can cause this if whole pdf is flipped.