Phil Creighton Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 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 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted December 10, 2019 Staff Share Posted December 10, 2019 We'll need some files to investigate which can be uploaded securely here Copies of the PDF's, publisher files and any fonts used. Ligatures in PDF's can certainly be problematic - especially if you subSet the fonts exported to the PDF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Creighton Posted December 10, 2019 Author Share Posted December 10, 2019 Thanks Pauls, really appreciate. Every day is a learning curve here and I'm grateful to you for the opportunity to find out what's gone wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted December 10, 2019 Staff Share Posted December 10, 2019 Thanks I've logged an issue. For me not selecting the sub-set fonts option in the PDF More export options appears to prevent the ligature problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Creighton Posted December 10, 2019 Author Share Posted December 10, 2019 Thanks, I'll try that myself. We do these things on autopilot sometimes - save it as PDF/X:4 standard click OK... Pauls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benwiggy Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 The dream of 'pass-through PDF', in which Affinity Suite represents an imported PDF as intended, without trying to re-interpret the text, remains. You have to outline all fonts in any PDFs you're importing into Affinity, if you want to ensure accuracy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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