Colin Whyles
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Alfred reacted to a post in a topic: Publisher Export to PDF text all garbled
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Publisher Export to PDF text all garbled
Colin Whyles replied to DHM's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
Thanks, I'll forward that to my colleague, who chose to use it! -
Alfred reacted to a post in a topic: Publisher Export to PDF text all garbled
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Publisher Export to PDF text all garbled
Colin Whyles replied to DHM's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
I'm very fond of Canada. Spent most of 1987 working there. But I admit I didn't know what UCAS stood for. -
Colin Whyles reacted to a post in a topic: Publisher Export to PDF text all garbled
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Publisher Export to PDF text all garbled
Colin Whyles replied to DHM's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
It surprises me to find that this bug is so old. I have just come across it. With me, it affects the Euphemia UCAS Regular font. Euphemia UCAS Italic and Bold export to PDF correctly. The export is set to embed fonts. Exporting text as curves is fine. However, the peculiar thing is that if I open the document in Designer and export it in exactly the same way then the PDF is fine. There is clearly an oddity in Publisher. I have used Publisher on 32-page magazines with no problem, although Euphemia is not a font that would be used. I also use Publisher to produce newsletters of a few pages to be published on the web. Producing readable PDFs for that has been a trick. Embedding fonts doesn't seem to produce readable fonts for Windows users if I use Palatino, for example. We have to flatten the PDFs at 144dpi. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, this produces grey patches around the text and I have to make the background white. There are clearly problems in exporting PDFs. Crabbe_leaflet_A5_p2_bug_report.afpub Crabbe leaflet A5 p2 bug report.pdf -
Patrick Connor reacted to a post in a topic: still problems importing music fonts (split)
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There are still problems importing music fonts. The example attached is much better than it used to be, notes are on the correct lines (or lines are in the correct place!), but the up-stems of notes (i.e. the vertical lines upwards to the right of notes) are displaced to the right. Down-stems are fine. This is using the Bravura font. I deliberately chose a file with guitar tab notation, which looks fine, so a great improvement. Unfortunately this has all come too late for the two-volume music book I was assembling last year. Leaving Running.afpub Leaving Running - Full score.pdf BravuraText.otf Bravura.otf
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MuseScore PDF import issues
Colin Whyles replied to Colin Whyles's topic in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads
Apologies, I don't know how they got missed. I thought I'f copied everything from inside Musescore. mscore.ttf mscore.otf -
MuseScore PDF import issues
Colin Whyles replied to Colin Whyles's topic in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads
I supplied the MScore fonts in the first posting. The MuseScore program with the fonts are available free from musescore.org. -
MuseScore PDF import issues
Colin Whyles replied to Colin Whyles's topic in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads
I am, by the way, using V1.7.0 of Publisher on a Macbook Pro running Mojave 10.14.6 Beta. Here is another example, an old song of mine called Star. It is only three lines of music, but if you look carefully there are many things out of place. Some have shifted quite badly. Once again, the fonts that should have been rendered as MScore text was instead rendered as Lucida Grande. I have corrected them my hand. It ought to be possible to have done this in the font manager, which doesn't seem to enable any management in this version of Publisher except for missing fonts. Text does seem to have been handled very well. The original PDF is also attached. Star.pdf Star sample.afpub -
MuseScore PDF import issues
Colin Whyles posted a topic in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads
There are a couple of things required to import (File->Place) a PDF of music from MuseScore, a free music notation editor from musescore.org. Firstly, it is necessary to have the fonts used by MuseScore installed on your Mac. The important one for the music is Mscore text. However, every musical symbol is displaced from where it should be on the stave. Their horizontal positions are correct but are sometimes higher or lower than they should be. Each symbol is from the Mscore text font. The staves are represented as curves. It is possible that the curves are displaced rather than the symbols. A sample file, Riley's Cow Shed sample 1 is attached, along with the MuseScore fonts. For lyric text etc, MuseScore uses FreeSerif. The musical symbols that should have picked up the Mscore text font have been picked up by Lucida Grande. There does not seem to be a way of replacing Lucida Grande thoughout. The font manager shows it, but does not allow a substitution to be made. The text set in FreeSerif has also been substituted, but that is not as important. I manually edited the first two lines of music to fix the incorrect font and change it to Mscore text. Mscore fonts.zip Riley's Cow Shed sample 1.afpub Riley's Cow-Shed.pdf