I am trying to fill a shapes with a seamless pattern using image fill. When I choose to tile the image, I get white lines between all the tiles. They stay there when I print and when I export to PDF. I've tried using a .png and a .jpg of the image. Also tried Advanced Image Fill to see if it would change anything. Nothing works to get rid of the white tile lines. Any ideas?
I am using Pages 8.1. Here's a screenshot.
MacBook Pro Retina
Your source image may have a hairline white border. I created a 300 dpi 298x298 pixel image in Affinity Designer that was exported without its background. To better test this image for Shape tiling, I reduced it in Preview to 100x100 pixels at the same resolution.
I have no white lines shown in this Pages v8.1 shape with image fill tile set. The shape is actually 5 x 5 inches. It remains seamless at 400x enlargement.
Yes, that must be it. That's kind of what I was thinking, even though I couldn't detect the hairline in Illustrator. To test, I took a screenshot of a central portion of the image and chose that as my image fill, and there were no lines when tiled. Although I did lose the seamlessness of the pattern.
So, to solve...Instead of exporting a .png from Illustrator, I opened the .ai file in Photoshop and exported a .png from there. No lines. Thanks for the quick response and for helping me process this.
I neglected to mention that I purposely exported a 100% jpeg from Affinity Designer for use as the fill tile. Also, you should be able to drag and drop an Illustrator .ai file onto Pages, or use it directly as the fill tile.
I didn't even think of that. Just assumed Pages wouldn't like an .ai file. I'll have to try that too. Thx!
White lines between image fill tiles in Pages
