[Publisher PDF export of Book says “some areas will be rasterized” when individual chapters do not]

Thanks @Callum, I uploaded the files.

[Publisher PDF export of Book says “some areas will be rasterized” when individual chapters do not]

I have a Book file, *.afbook, with 40+ chapters, *.afpub. When I export to PDF (with any settings, including rasterize nothing), it says “some areas will be rasterized”. When I look at the resulting PDF in Acrobat, it says there’s nothing in there but text and vector. I went through and checked export of each chapter individually, and none of them say “some areas will be rasterized”. Sometimes the Book export says “nothing will be rasterized” until the last second or two of the export process.

Any tips about what could cause this? Could it be a bug in the Book feature?

[Canva]

Yet another excellent product from a small company, bought to be destroyed.

[Can I adjust word spacing line by line?]

Now that I’m using a fixed-width space, I can see that the Character Style is also not able to keep tracking constant for the honorific/name phrases, even if I choose “apply Paragraph Style and preserve Character formatting”. Is there any way to override Paragraph justification settings for tracking in a particular phrase, besides the Tab method suggested above?

[Can I adjust word spacing line by line?]

41 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

You can't adjust word and letter spacing at the character level - those are paragraph attributes. So if you're using justification and finding that the names aren't aligning as shown in the left screenshot it might seem that you can't do it.

But there's a trick you can use. Replace the space after "Professor Jones:" with a tab and a thin space and set the default tab spacing to very narrow (e.g., 1mm, 0p1, etc.) See the right screenshot below.

The tab will solve the alignment issue but it might be too narrow depending on the names. But the extra space (a thin space, a third space, whatever looks good for your text) will solve that.

I gave it a try and it worked pretty well.

 

Thanks very much! Tried it and it seems to be an effective workaround. I’d still like to be able to control the spacing with just a style, (or a not-susceptible-to-justification space character)!

[Can I adjust word spacing line by line?]

43 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Thanks for the clarification. I wonder if all you need in this particular case is a non-breaking space between the honorific and the surname.

Thanks for the suggestion. That would be simple and great, but it doesn’t seem to work.

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2 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @phps.

From your description, I’m not sure you actually need independent control of word spacing. It sounds as though you just need a hanging indent to allow for the fact that ‘Mr. Smith’ takes up much less horizontal space than ‘Professor Jones’. (I would question the decision to abbreviate ‘Mister’ without also abbreviating ‘Professor’ in the present example, but I understand that we’re just discussing general principles here.)

Thanks! I don't want different names/titles to line up with each other, but with other instances of the same name -- if Mr/Mister Smith and Prof/Professor Jones are having a long dialogue, it looks bad if different instances of "Mister Smith" are of different lengths. It seems to me that Publisher allows me to keep the tracking constant, using a Character Style, but not the spacing in between name and title, because that's a Paragraph Style feature.

[Can I adjust word spacing line by line?]

I have a case where paragraph-independent control of word spacing is necessary: a dialogue with the speakers’ names and titles (e.g. Mr. Smith, Professor Jones) in small caps. I want the overall text justified, but the speakers’ names and titles to always be spaced the same, because they line up at the left edge and look bad if they are spaced differently on different lines.

[Problems adding chapters to a book, page numbers end up on wrong side of the page ... ?]

It seems to be working for me, using the Book feature, to combine chapters that start on the left and chapters that start on the right, using Document Settings for each chapter, and setting Facing Pages, Arrange Horizontally, Start on Left, for chapters that start on the left. At least so far it outputs a PDF that looks right. I'm using three masters, one for "start right", one for "start left" and one for "interior".