Shushan

Thank you! This has been very helpful. 😁

Thanks for getting back to me! I mean the former; the italics appear as italics in Affinity but straighten when I export to the PDF. I'm using the Amiri font (I checked in the font menu and Affinity does appear to have the Italics version).

I'm compiling a collection of work by other authors, which involves a lot of copy and pasting from odt. documents. I was happy to see that all the formatting from the odt. documents seemed to be recognised by the Affinity software, and all was going well until I exported the file as a PDF. Everything else is presenting fine, but the italics in the copy and pasted text aren't showing up. I've tried retyping them in the Affinity file and checked to make sure it recognises them as italic. Nothing seems to be working. Interestingly, in the text that has been originally typed in the Affinity software, bold text shows up fine. Please advise on how I can carry my italics through to PDF.

Although my text isn't garbled, I'm having a similar problem. When I import into a PDF, I lose the italics in the body of text that was originally added to the file with copy and pasting. I checked, and the Affinity software is aware that the text is in italics. Interestingly, the text in the Affinity file that wasn't copy and pasted but is in bold shows up fine in the PDF. Ordinarily I would just dismiss the italics and soldier on, but I'm publishing an anthology of other people's work so that's really not an option here. Please help!