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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
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Affinity Publisher 1.7.0.139 on Windows 7 (64 bit, German) behaves as follows: Create a document with a text frame and insert some characters. From the 'Text Styles' panel, change the 'Base' group style by right-clicking on it and choosing 'Edit'. The 'Edit Text Style' dialog appears. Under 'Font', choose an OpenType font supporting several stylistic sets. Under 'Variants', switch some stylistic sets on by typing '1' into the corresponding edit fields (instead of the [No change] text). Click 'OK'. The stylistic changes should now be visible. Fine. Edit the 'Base' style again. This time, delete the numbers '1' from the stylistic set edit fields. The fields now display [No change] again. Fine. Click 'OK'. By some reason, the stylistic changes are still visible (nothing happened). Edit the 'Base' style again. Surprise: The previously entered numbers '1' have appeared again, even though they were thrown away the last time. Apparently, these settings can never be set to [No change] again. This also happens with any other paragraph style whose once defined stylistic sets should be removed again. It would be nice if one could get back to the [No change] setting for stylistic sets... Andreas Weidner PS: It might be that I don't understand the GUI in this case: In contrast to Affinity Designer and any other program I know, Affinity Publisher not only supports switching stylistic sets on or off, but can cope with the entry of numbers (e.g., 0, 1, 3, -4, etc.). I don't have the slightest idea what this means (and haven't found anything in the help pages, either)...
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