Recently, ads I design in Affinity Designer and export as a PDF (which I have been doing for years without problem) suddenly will not open properly when placed in InDesign 2019. Some elements are missing. I am using Mac OS 10.14.1, Affinity designer 1.6.1 and InDesign 14.0.1
The screenshot shows very clearly the problem. Every application I own will open the exported PDF correctly (Adobe Acrobat, Mac Preview, MS Word, Pages, as an attachment to email, etc, etc, except for InDesign 2019 and Photoshop 2019.
I would be grateful for your thoughts.
I have also sent this to the Affinity team, but I suspect they will say that as it opens correctly in every other app under the sun, it must be an Adobe problem, which I have to say seems logical.
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Hi CaptainSlocum ,
thank you again for the sample PDF. That's really helpful.
Here the placed PDF with InDesign CC 2019. PDF Layers ( graphic layers ) showing.
Obviously some parts are missing.
This is not a screen redraw error! The page from above exported to PDF/X-4 and opened in Acrobat Pro DC:
The original PDF opened in Acrobat Pro DC is showing all elements:
InDesign CC 2018.1:
Had a crash after placing the PDF with import options showing and crop set to "Media".
Sent the report, got a message back
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