PepGold Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 I need to import PDFs into Publisher that contains fonts that I don't have installed or a license too. How can I avoid Publisher substituting the fonts? Right now I have to open the PDFs and .ai files in Preview on Mac and export them from there as JPEG or PNG. I can't understand why Publisher or Photo can't deal with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 33 minutes ago, csj said: I need to import PDFs into Publisher that contains fonts that I don't have installed or a license too. How can I avoid Publisher substituting the fonts? Right now I have to open the PDFs and .ai files in Preview on Mac and export them from there as JPEG or PNG. ... There are applications, such as InkScape, that can convert the type to curves. But, I do believe I've read on the forum that Preview can also convert type to curves via EPS export. Could be mis-remembering...I use Windows. 33 minutes ago, csj said: ... I can't understand why Publisher or Photo can't deal with this. Because Serif haven't added the requisite feature yet? Sorry. Being able to what you want is on the list of one day/someday, to-do list Serif has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PepGold Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 Yeah, I just find this highly problematic because a PDF really is just a portable document. That you send and receive and expect it not to change. And it is really amazing that Affinity does have the ability to import and modify and work from a PDF. But the “default” behaviour should be preserved. Image if your browser changed all the fonts in a PDF when opening it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Catshill Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 My workaround is to convert the pdf to a png bitmap using pdf2png a free converter. Not ideal of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trichens Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I found a post somewhere in one of the Affinity forums that described using GhostScript to change the fonts in the PDF file to curves. It's worked every time I've used it. First install GhostScript - current version 9.50. I made sure the Windows PATH was updated to include the install folder. Open the Windows command line and move to the correct folder where the PDF file is. Then use the following command to create a new version of the PDF: gswin64c -dNoOutputFonts -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o "output.pdf" "input.pdf" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Catshill Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Another way of converting fonts to curves is to use the Microsoft print driver to create a pdf. It has been pointed out elsewhere that you need to check the output does match the original when using these applications. I have found that some elements go missing or are not right after conversion. It is for this reason, I invariably convert to a PNG when I am sent a pdf with embedded fonts I don’t have. There is a useful post on this topic here http://latex-my.blogspot.com/2012/01/text-to-path-conversion-with.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PepGold Posted February 22, 2020 Author Share Posted February 22, 2020 Or just use Illustrator, really. It is completely mind-blowing that you cannot work with artwork from somebody else if they haven't outlined the font. Affinity really have a long way to go. Unless you only work on solo greenfield projects, then everything is great. But as soon as you start or need to pull in stuff from "outside" it goes haywire really fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastian_ Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 I cannot believe that this feature is still missing in the Affinity apps. It renders publisher almost useless, sadly! I do not want to go back to Indesign. We need this feature asap! Creating magazines with external ads is crazy problematic - as you get pdfs files, which should be simply able to be imported - without a font change. TSemmelroth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StainX Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Yeah, still an important feature for me, as i get a lot of pdf's from clients! TSemmelroth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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