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Alright I actually did this successfully a few months back following these steps http://www.avenza.com/resources/blog/2016/12/06/exporting-qgis-avenza-maps.
Now when I bring the map into Avenza, I get a "Map Not Referenced"
Now I have no clue what I am doing wrong. I have tried and tried. I have unistalled and reinstalled. Tried to export as image then convert format.
A strange thing to note, I can not select reference map under Print Composer-> Export Settings -> Reference Map.
Yes, although it comes with some side effects. You need to change the label rendering from "outlines" to text objects. This setting slightly degrades the quality of rendered labels, and will also result in alignment issues with buffered text. To change this setting, you need to:
This setting will apply to all layers in your map.
There's a lot of useful information in the comments, which I summarize here so it doesn't get buried. Credit to @Mapperz and @Juan.
Adobe products have a limit of 32,768 vertices (16 bit limit?). The limit was reached in this situation because of a vector layer with
QGIS doesn't crop the data to the map extent when exporting to pdf, so the vertices outside the map extent still count towards the total number of vertices. I made a feature request.
The current solution is to reduce the number of vertices before exporting. Starting with the layer with the most vertices, apply these methods until the output falls below the 32,768 vertex limit.
Use the Simplify algorithm to reduce the vertex density. This method will alter the data within the map extent.
Simplify This algorithm simplifies the geometries in a line or polygon layer. It creates a new layer with the same features as the ones in the input layer, but with geometries containing a lower number of vertices.
A workaround would be to export as raster instead of vector. Rasters don't have vertices, so the 32,768 vertex limit doesn't apply.
These questions remain unanswered:
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Using QGIS 2.18.13 installed using network installer I was able to export my Print Composer map to a geoPDF that is recognized by Avenza 2.3.x as georeferenced. When in Print Composer I select the Composition tab, and in Export Settings set the Reference Map as the selected map, e.g. Map 0. Then export as a PDF.