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I have a PDF created in Adobe Illustrator that displays fine via multiple different SDKs and toolkits across different platforms. The PDF contains text (set in Iowan Old Style) that was configured via the "Character" panel in Illustrator 2022 to use small caps, as shown below: The resulting PDF is not correctly imported; here is an example: What it should look like: What is displayed in Affinity Designer 1.10.4 when the PDF is opened (without selecting "favor editable text over fidelity"): As you can see, the kerning is all wrong (all characters are rendered much closer together), the characters are all caps (the actually capitalized input is not rendered at a larger size than the remainder of the text), and the numbers no longer match the height of the neighboring letters. Manually selecting the text input and turning on "Small Caps" in Affinity Designer corrects the height of the numeric characters at the end, but the text kerning remains incorrect - it seems that the underlying text is imported as all-uppercase even though it isn't: This is verified by manually selecting the last three letters of "LIVE" and re-typing them (in lowercase). This, with the previous step of enabling small caps for the text box gives the corrected result: I've attached the actual PDF exhibiting this incorrect behavior as exported by Adobe Illustrator (i.e. without any corrections from Affinity Designer). Fundraising Dinner 2021 - Web.pdf

The management of capital letters and uppercase is poorly managed. The French translation is also erroneous, that it leads to misunderstanding. Reminder of definitions: There seems to be a confusion between capital letters (rules of orthotypography) and uppercase (glyph). abcde : The lower case letters are used for writing the usual letters. They are also called minuscule letters. ABCDE : The upper case letter are used for writing the large letters. It is not a capital letter wich is an initial location determined by the rules of orthotypography, which in most cases is realised as a uppercase. They are also called majuscule letters. abcde : A small capitals can be used to mark the emphasis of words without them appearing too large in relation to the other words, so as not to break the harmony of the text and in particular to maintain the typographical grey. They are useful as a substitute for ordinary capital letters, but also for italics or bold, when they are not appropriate. Their use changes according to spelling conventions. They are called "small caps" in some desktop publishing or word processing software (Microsoft Word, OpenOffice and LibreOffice), but other software (Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress) differentiates between "small caps", which are minuscule letters turned into small capitals, and "small majuscule", which are majuscule letters turned into small capitals. Divergent features: "Title case" of Affinity Publisher does not comply with the orthographic rule. It should put non-essential words in lower case and others in upper case. Example: "the queen of the united kingdom" should become "The Queen of the United Kingdom". This has been confused with the "Name case". 💬 More: English Title Case Converter. "Sentence case" It should only put a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence. "The Queen" should not become "The queen". 💬 More: Sentence according to Wikipedia. The beginning of a sentence is delimited by the beginning of the text, the beginning of a paragraph, or the end of a previous sentence. The end of a sentence is delimited by a full stop (or an exclamation mark, or a question mark, or suspension marks, or a colon) or an end of line. Correction of the French translation: and reminder of the expected result based on the following original text: Maxime Chattam. 💬Note the 2 capitals and the small capitals, then the full stop. the queen of the united kingdom 💬Note the absence of full stops and capital letters. la petite ours et la voie lactée. 💬Note the full stop and the absence of capital letters. capitales.afpub

This is the same text box (copy and paste) with all caps and small caps.