William Overington

It seems to me that there are broadly two types of interactivity - one is where one can just do something like turn on the playing of a sound clip - and the other is where one can do things which give the impression of being in an interactive environment. For example, moving around in a webspace or doing calculations or causing an illustration to vary depending upon a value that the end user inputs, such as a viewing angle. William

Suggestion to make the Export Settings panel for PDF larger In the thread, some way down, https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/76449-questions-with-fonts/ an issue arose that I could not find the way to choose how fonts should be rendered in a PDF document. The issue was resolved when I was told of the scroll bar on the More … section of the scroll panel. The fact that I have Affinity Publisher set in the light grey mode rather than the black mode might be relevant to why I had the problem. I write to ask if you could please consider making that panel larger or wider or both larger and wider so that a scroll bar is not needed? I consider that doing that would make the program easier to use, not only for beginners. William Overington Wednesday 9 January 2019

I am thinking of starting a thread to suggest to the Affinity Publisher programmers that it would be a good idea to make the Export Settings panel either taller or wider (or both) so that there is no scroll bar needed. Are there any views on this please? William

Thank you. William

Hi Thank you. That is it, I found it. A matter arising. I note that Publisher only offers All Fonts or Text as Curves and then the offer to subset embedded fonts. Is this so that issues of not embedding common fonts and then something going wrong because precisely the same version of the "common font" is not available when an attempt is made to display the PDF? By the way, if conversion to curves is used so as not to embed a font, maybe for legal reasons, then if, say, the PDF has the letter e say five times, does the PDF embed the converted to curves version of the letter e once or five times please? William

Hi Dominik Thank you for your post. No, I am using a Lenovo ideapad 510 running Windows 10. William

In the thread https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/76449-questions-with-fonts/ on my computer I do not get the choice about embedding fonts and subsetting them in a PDF when exporting a PDF. Yet the two other people posting in the thread both can. I think that I might have seen those choices the other day but cannot be sure as I have also been using PagePlus. Can someone explain this please? William

Now I thought that that would be it, but when I looked it was not there. So when I have now just read your post and checked again it is still not there for me. I wonder why. William

> A PDF document carries information to allow the display that you want to be produced on another computer. There are various options. When it comes to fonts, you may opt (I think that it is possibly on by default in Publisher - I have just tried to find where one may choose the setting, but I cannot find it at present) to embed a font that you are using so that the font is thereby available when the display is produced. As a side-issue of that, if you do choose font embedding you may choose to subset the font so that only the characters actually used are embedded. So, for example, if you write a poem and it does not have some of the letters and digits and punctuation characters in it, then they will not be embedded in the PDF. For example, a poem might not have, say, B, M, Q, X, Z, 1.. 9 and ( and ) in it, so if subsetting is used, that part of the font will not be embedded. Thus, for a large font that has characters for all of the languages of Europe and you are, say, using only English in the document, the information for all of the special characters for the languages of Europe will not be placed into the PDF. However, some fonts have flags in them that do not allow that to take place: also, even if it can be technically done then the End User Licence Agreement for the font may not permit it, either totally or only if an extra fee is paid, or maybe allowed for sending a copy to an external printshop for making hardcopy prints but not for placing on the web. Your questions: 1. I do not know at present. In Serif PagePlus it is on an option panel when exporting the PDf document. I have tried to find something similar is Affinity Publisher but I have not found it today. I may have seen it the other day but I cannot be sure as I have also been using PagePlus. 2. Open the PDF document in Adobe Reader (which may now be called Acrobat Reader). then File Properties ... Then on the panel choose the Fonts tab. There is then a list of fonts. It states so if they are embedded. A PDF that I produced using Affinity Publisher on 5 January 2019 is attached for you to test if you wish. Please note that the font is listed as Embedded. When I tried the same test with a PDF that I had produced using PagePlus it listed the font as Embedded Subset. William poem_with_ligatures_and_alternates.pdf

Wow, that's great. Thank you. Affinity Publisher is a top class product. William

Suggestion for adding OpenType hist and hlig capability It would be good if Affinity Publisher could include facilities for handling hist and hlig tables please. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/typography/opentype/spec/features_fj#a-namehist-idhistatag-39hist39 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/typography/opentype/spec/features_fj#a-namehlig-idhligatag-39hlig39 It would need an appropriate font to be used so I am not sure to what extent Adobe Publisher would need to be altered. For example, the cascaded menus from Text Show Typography and Text Ligatures would need changing to allow for selection of facilities. Yet I have no idea how much would need to be added or changed within the software so that it all would work. It would be a good addition. Affinity Publisher is a top class product and it would be good to have such facilities included within it please. William Overington Monday 7 January 2019

It would be good if Affinity Publisher could include facilities for handling hist and hlig tables please. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/typography/opentype/spec/features_fj#a-namehist-idhistatag-39hist39 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/typography/opentype/spec/features_fj#a-namehlig-idhligatag-39hlig39 It would need an appropriate font to be used so I am not sure to what extent Adobe Publisher would need to be altered. For example, the cascaded menus from Text Show Typography and Text Ligatures would need changing to allow for selection of facilities. Yet I have no idea how much would need to be added or changed within the software so that it all would work It would be a good addition. Affinity Publisher is a top class product and it would be good to have such facilities included within it please. William Overington Monday 7 January 2019 The above suggestion now has its own thread as well. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/76353-suggestion-for-adding-opentype-hist-and-hlig-capability/ .

> And I sincerely doubt this capability will ... ever be available. Well, why please? Affinity Publisher is already showing itself to be a top class product with support for all of the Universal Character Set (ISO/IEC 10646 / Unicode) and having the facility for a user to copy from a PDF where glyph substitution of ligatures has been used and get the underlying plain text pasted into WordPad, so why do you doubt that Affinity Publisher will ever have the capability to produce a PDF that can carry an attachment within it > And I sincerely doubt this capability will (or even should) ever be available. Why do you consider that this capability should not be made available? Affinity Publisher is a top class product. I opine that it should not have restrictions needlessly placed upon the capabilities that it can have. William 

Does that mean that my font is fine or is it both a bug and that the font has a problem? William

Thank you. I would appreciate help on the High-Logic forum please. I have started a new thread there. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7824 William

Here is the font and a test publication made using it. The poem has the word 'at' added into it compared with the earlier version. This is to test the a_t ligature which is included as a discretionary ligature. Two discretionary ligatures are used in the PDF document, one of them twice - some readers might like to try to find them. They can be found from the PDF document without any need to open the font in a font making program. The whole poem from the PDF document copies and then pastes into WordPad to show the whole original plain text of the poem, which is just what I want so as to be able to publish text with stylish typography yet from which the underlying plain text can be recovered. I tried pushing the envelope relating to the c_t ligature in that I have included in the font an alternate glyph for a c_t ligature. I wondered what would happen with ligatures switched on, whether I could then use an alternate glyph for the ligature. It appears that that will not 'go' but the glyph is listed within Affinity Publisher as a glyph variant of the c_t ligature, but I cannot get it to become in the document. Please look, inAffinity Publisher, using Text Show Typography when the ct ligature is selected but please note that standard ligatures need to switched on (which they are by default) in order for the alternate c_t ligature glyph to be dispalyed. I realize that that was really trying to push the envelope, but as it is recognized by Affinity Publisher, could it be made to work please? William poem_with_ligatures_and_alternates.pdf A poem displayed with both standard and discretionary ligatures and glyph alternates ligaalts.otf Ligatures and Alternates OpenType font

I am making a font, Ligatures and Alternates, for use with Affinity Publisher. It is an extension of the Ligature test 3 font that I posted in the forum. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/75641-copying-text-out-of-a-pdf-document-when-the-font-has-opentype-ligature-capability/ My intention is to publish the font (free). At present I am using the liga table for some ligatures, but I would like to add some more in a dlig table. For example, I have c_t and e_t and s_t and the five f ligatures and p_p in liga and am thinking of having a_t and some others is dlig so that the default display is not too 'ligatury' but that the full effect is possible. This is partly for fun, partly for testing and partly for art. Will Affinity Publisher pick those up please? I note that Text Ligatures has three options, default, none and all. Could you clarify which tables are in default and which are in all please? For example, as well as liga and dlig there is hlig for historical ligatures. William Overington Saturday 5 January 2019

Well, it could be an option that an end use could use or not use as he or she chooses. An author could draw attention to the presence of the attachment if he or she so chooses. William

I have now added a PDF document that I produced using Affinity Publisher to the web. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/white.pdf The PDF document is also linked from the following web page, near the end of the page, together with a link to the font used in it and there is also a transcript of an original forum post. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/library.htm The font is one of my own so no intellectual property rights issue over my publishing the font on the web. William

I have now added a transcript of my post of 27 December 2018 to my webspace. The font and the PDF are also available. The transcript is near the end of the following web page. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/library.htm William

Thank you. > Sounds like you might have some server space somewhere. Yes I do. I am about to provide a link to it in another thread. The thread is as follows. Copying text out of a PDF document when the font has OpenType ligature capability William

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