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  1. Here is a screenshot to show what I am seeing. The PDF (bottom) shows the "ffi" ligature correctly, while the same PDF when placed in a publisher document (top) shows the ligatures are split. Here are the steps I followed: Created a new document. Add the word "difficult" with Adobe Garamond Pro. (I added the text as art text, though I first observed the problem in a text frame in a real document) I have attached my file from this step: ligatures.afpub Exported the document as a PDF for print. That is the document opened in the bottom of the screenshot above. Here is the PDF: ligatures.pdf I then created another new document, and I placed the PDF in the new document. That is the opened document in the top of the screenshot above. Here is the document from this step: ligatures_placed.afpub At this point the ligature is broken, and it will remain broken even when exporting to a new PDF. I followed the steps above on Publisher 1.7.3 on macOS 10.14.6. I also tried opening ligatures_placed.afpub in Publisher 1.8.0.535 with the same result. ------------------- Those are the facts of the issue; now for my opinion: This may be related to the lack of a passthrough. I'm not sure about that, but you see even with the original font installed, placing PDFs is not reliable. I feel like PDFs should be placed as though they were final documents. Opening PDFs (i.e. import) is one thing, but placing a PDF should not need to be interpreted as a live editable document. The present approach of reinterpreting versus just placing it as is means there will inevitably be differences of implementation such as this. It's not just that, but I see spacing in the placed document does not match the PDF that was placed. For example, notice the spacing at the red arrows: I can sympathize with the challenge Serif has in regard to rethinking PDF handling, but the lack of passthrough is a real black mark that is going to come up again and again, as new users discover how unreliable it is in this area, especially as we are not here talking about unimplemented "missing" features but rather a poorly-behaved existing feature. I admit my opinion is colored by the negative experience I am having now that I discovered I can't use the files I have created over the last couple hours and I will have to redo the process in InDesign. (That's my little rant, but I still love you, Serif. We will get through this.) ligatures_placed.afpub
  2. Hi all, We have had an unfortunate problem occur in this week's newspaper and I'm trying to nail down the issue. The client approved a PDF proof of their advert, created in Affinity Publisher. Prints fine, looks fine, everyone happy. But when it is placed on the Affinity page of the newspaper, most of the ligatures corrupt. In the attached screenshot, the original Affinity PDF is on the right, with the dodgy ligatures circled, while the one of the left is a new PDF where we have opted to save the Text as curves. It shouldn't be a typeface issue as the column is typeset in Calibri. And surely a PDF created in Affinity should import correctly into Affinity? (in summary, we have workaround, but baffled as to how it happens in first place) As ever, thanks for your help and thoughts :)
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