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Affinity Publisher 1.7.0.139 on Windows 7 (64bit, German) behaves as follows: Create a text with a font that supports several OpenType features like stylistic sets. The screenshot was done with 'TheSans E4s' by known font designer Lucas de Groot. With no OpenType feature used, the text always behaves properly. With certain OpenType features enabled, the metrics of corresponding characters become garbled, so that the resulting text is sometimes unusable. For reference, the screenshot shows shaded fields and blue text frames. Here some remarks concerning the image: The 1st and 2nd line use 'normal' text, and everything's fine. The 3rd and 4th line use 'ss11' and, by some mysterious reason, though both lines contain the same text, the line with the date field contains too much space behind the '1'. When checking the '1' in right-aligned text, the ss11 version suddenly doesn't have too much space behind it, but appears to have negative metrics at the right, so that it overlaps the frame. Checking the same with differently styled versions of the 'Q' character produces the same error: The 'normal' Q is correct, any of the styled versions has negative metrics. This definitely seems to be a bug in Publisher, because every other software I tried does this correctly. Affinity Designer 1.6.5.123 also yields correct results (no additional white space, proper alignment). If Publisher and Designer use the same code base for OpenType support, please revert Publisher to Designer's correct behaviour. Andreas Weidner