Strange export issue relating to place SVG

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January 30, 2024
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Hi community

I stumbled upon a very strange problem yesterday. I exported a newspaper as a print-PDF. On each side I placed a QR-code (SVG). Everything was fine exept on page 30 the code wasn't visible.

I tried to replace the frame and the file but the problem still existed.

Strange thing is that when I export an interactive PDF the SVG is shown correctly.

I opened the page then in Ilustrator to take a deeper look. And actually the SVG was there but cropped to 0% with. When I realeased the clippig path the file was now spread all over the width of the page.

How the hell did this happen? Is this a common problem that a frame "auto-crops" during export? Did somebody stumbled over the same problem?

Best, Patrick

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Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

SVG is never good for print, only for screen, like interactive PDF or EPUBs or Pubblish Online. Convert the QR code to PDF/X-4 or use the InDesign QR code.

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pat292345676vufAuthor

Participating Frequently

Hi Willi, thanks. It has turned out that it happens also with .jpg so the .svg is not the problem here. See post above.

rob day

Community Expert

Hi @pat292345676vuf , I’m not seeing a problem when I export your page with the SVG using the default PDF/X-4 preset and viewing in AcrobatPro.

You might double check that the SVG link’s status is normal. The Qcode save as an SVG is going to place as an RGB object (it’s CMYK conversion values are not actually white). This is my PDF/X-4:

I’m not surprised that converting the SVG to JPEG would not work—JPEG is a flattened image format so the SVG converted to a flattened image would be a solid white square. The best format would be a CMYK (not RGB) .AI file—that works for me and I’ve attatched the 30.ai file to this reply. This is a PDF/X-4 export with the .ai file—you can see the Qcode CMYK values are 0|0|0|0:

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Have you tried the very simple step of copying that entire header from a working page to the faulty one? It looks as if the problem is somewhere in the structure/layering/organization of that element, and not necessarily in that specific graphic or its frame.