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jeremyp7143294
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Oct 23, 2018 9:15 AM UTC
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Flipped photos when I export as PDF

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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    AntoineSFCorrect answer
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    Jul 29, 2022 7:15 PM UTC

    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.

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    patrotamal
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    Feb 27, 2019 8:14 AM UTC

    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.

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    paul153
    paul153
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    Feb 15, 2019 12:51 AM UTC

    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.

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      Ares Hovhannesyan
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      Ares HovhannesyanCommunity Expert
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      Oct 23, 2018 3:26 PM UTC

      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?

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      jeremyp7143294
      jeremyp7143294Author
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      Oct 23, 2018 6:19 PM UTC

      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)

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      Ares Hovhannesyan
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      Ares HovhannesyanCommunity Expert
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      Oct 24, 2018 9:56 AM UTC

      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.

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