Export as PDF: Suddenly Markup Is Lost

[Immortality]

Hello everyone,

Despite my n00b-fu, I managed to get the cover of my humble scribbling the right size. I discussed this issue here.
Suddenly a new problem arose. Normally I have no problem exporting a file as .PDF; but now suddenly some design choices have gone missing.

What it used to look like: https://aviilokinkshi.net/cover4.png
What it looks like now: https://aviilokinkshi.net/5x8COVER.pdf

When I export the file, I had a look at what options Gimp provides for exporting it. I couldn't find anything meaningful; though of course my neophyte eyes are blind.

Kindly and thank you for your guidance,

Immortality

[Ofnuts]

(07-04-2021, 12:13 PM)Immortality Wrote: Hello everyone,

Despite my n00b-fu, I managed to get the cover of my humble scribbling the right size. I discussed this issue here.
Suddenly a new problem arose. Normally I have no problem exporting a file as .PDF; but now suddenly some design choices have gone missing.

What it used to look like: https://aviilokinkshi.net/cover4.png
What it looks like now: https://aviilokinkshi.net/5x8COVER.pdf

When I export the file, I had a look at what options Gimp provides for exporting it. I couldn't find anything meaningful; though of course my neophyte eyes are blind.

Kindly and thank you for your guidance,

Immortality

If you flatten the image (or a duplicate of) before exporting, does the result look right?

[rich2005]

Is the text supposed to have a drop shadow ?

When you exported to PDF is the text(s) on a separate text layer to (background) graphic ?

There is a problem with Gimp / text layers / PDF While Gimp tries to embed the text metric (the ttf / otf information), it does not work. When the font is not available on the computer a default substitute is made.

The cure for that is keep a working copy (as Gimp .xcf) and flatten the image before exporting. Then it is What You See Is What You Get. (see Ofnuts reply)

As an aside, this using Scribus and that 10.4325" x 8.5" (-ish got margins wrong) format. Not fully filled in but as an example. A graphic, a vector title from an Inkscape svg, and regular text (arial) total size 2.7 MB The Gimp PDF for that is 4.7 MB. https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=...WfWHgaGxKV

[Immortality]

Hello everyone,

Flattening the image worked. I was able to publish my humble scribbling format and design-wise.

Thank you so much.

Kindly,

Immortality