[Text outline disappears when exported as PDF - affinity publisher]

Ok. I quickly tried a few things and I guess we can close the discussion. Thanks to everyone for the help, I really learned a lot.
If someone comes back to this topic, here's the summary:

• When I use the outline on the inside of the letters it sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't.
• When I use the outline on the outside it seems to work (at least in my testcases), except for some small artefacts.
• The centered outline really seems to work well, as far as I can tell.

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2 minutes ago, Lagarto said:

Yes, I do not know what the exact cause for this is, but the behavior is triggered by the "impossible" inline stroke. The problem can be reproduced consistently -- it may be a "glitch" in the code that produces the PDF file, or a problem that only shows with certain specific fonts, but the PDF generating code clearly struggles when it creates the output, as is shown from the time it takes to process this basically simple job.

Interesting. I guess I have to experiment a bit to see if I can also reproduce this. In my first try a few days ago the problem was gone when I tried to reproduce it with a new file. I will keep this in mind for the next time I need an outline. Thanks.

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@Lagarto But in your example the outline is only missing for some parts of the character.
This is how it looks in my case:

The first picture is how it looks in the PDF. The second how it looks in Affinity.
As you can see, the outline looks in principle ok, but suddenly it is completely gone.

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42 minutes ago, Lagarto said:

I think that the problem is simply in applying the stroke using inside alignment style with a font that has varying line thickness. With certain glyphs this causes overlapping of the stoke in a way that cannot be rendered. The problem can be fixed either by using center alignment style, of reducing the width of the stroke. Many apps, e.g. Illustrator, does not even allow applying inside alignment style with fonts, probably because these kinds of issues.

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Hm. I'm sorry, maybe I don't understand it correctly but this would mean that the outline simply doesn't work with my font or some characters of this font, right?
But the strange thing is that the outline works for some lines of text but not for others in the same document with the same fonts and settings. That means: It can work for a character in one line and in the next line it doesn't work anymore for the same character. And I also have this issue with other fonts like Arial.
Furthermore, the issue seems to vanish completely if I start a completely new document and appears again when I try to import pages from my old project.

I personally think that something broke in my document when I installed the newest version of Affinity during the process.

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2 hours ago, Dan C said:

Hi @Sarah Gerster,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums

Can you please confirm, did the suggestions above resolve this issue for you - or are you still having trouble here?

Many thanks in advance!

I couldn't resolve the issue unfortunately. For my project I finally decided to not use text outlines.

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4 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

I've just done it again based on your original afpub file and it has gone wrong, I have no idea how I originally got it to work

I totally understand because this happended to me a few hours ago. (I just reached the limit of posts for today... So thanks a lot for your help and see you tomorrow. ^^ )

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Ok. As far as I can tell, I deleted my style for the paragraph and the characters. I applied an outline to Arial text and the export still fails.

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18 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I just noticed that you have somehow applied the same paragraph style twice. Very odd.

@Old Bruce Could this be because I told affinity to use the style on both the paragraph and the characters? This is a bit confusing because I can define the settings for the paragraphs also in the character style. Should I create and use two different styles anyway?

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14 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

Well the pdf export for Print works ok on Windows 10, APub 1.10.1, albeit with a font substitution

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@David in Яuislip Does this mean that the outline in the PDF looks correct on your computer? Because it doesn't on mine.
I will try to change the font.

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@Old Bruce Thanks. I'll try. As soon as I understood how to use these styles correctly. It seems as if I still have a lot of mistakes in the document. I can't even see that I applied the style twice or why it is applied twice.. ^^
As far as I can tell I used the same style and font in the new document where the outline worked. But I'm a little unsure about this right now.

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@Old Bruce The thing with the same style twice is not by intention. I'm very new to affinity and obviously I still didn't manage to use the styles correctly.

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When I create a completely new document and a completely new text frame it works correctly. But without knowing why this happens I need to layout the complete document again from scratch. 😢

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I did another check: I changed the width of the outline to 0.5 and the color to red. Everything looks perfect in affinity. Again half of the red outline is gone in pdf, despite I made all changes when all of the text was selected. Also, I only copied and pasted the text before. At no point in the workflow I edited only a single line or word.

Is it possible that something is wrong  with my version of affinity? I use the newest update and Windows.

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@Old Bruce Hm. How exactly did you apply the stroke? Because I just selected all the text, then removed the outline by clicking on the crossed color selection, reapplied the outline, went to the thickness, typed 0.2 and hit enter. The problem is still there. But it seems almost impossible to me that I somehow applied it wrong to only half the text when I selected all of it.
Or did I misunderstood you? (I use the program in German).

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Hello everyone

I hope this question wasn't already answered. I searched for quite some time and couldn't find anything.
I'm working with affinity publisher and have the following issue:

I tried to put a white outline around my text, which consists of a few lines. This looks perfectly fine in affinity. I can also export this page as a jpeg and the outline still is fine. But as soon as I export this as a pdf the outline of some of the text lines is gone.
I already tried a few things like changing the export settings, write the text from scratch and set the outline again but nothing worked. I also tried to open the PDF with different programs to see if it is just an artefact but all programs I tested agree on what they show.

I tried to create a minimal example. I also exported this example as PDF and it shows the same effect.

I would really appreciate some help in solving this. Thank you in advance. :)
Best regards
Sarah

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