Yaco Posted May 3, 2020 Posted May 3, 2020 Hi, in Affinity Publisher, when I export the document to PDF, text is displaying as gibberish (see attached screenshot). The font is a standard Google font (Lato) , so there should be no licensing issues. What might be causing this, is there a way around it? Thanks! Quote
ashf Posted May 3, 2020 Posted May 3, 2020 No, Lato does not become gibberish on my side. What software are you seeing the pdf on? I checked the pdf on Adobe Reader. Quote
Joachim_L Posted May 4, 2020 Posted May 4, 2020 Works fine for me too. I have Version 1.104 installed. Could post the .afpub file and / or the PDF you exported? Maybe deleting and re-installing the font(s) might help? Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed
Cyan Cooper Posted November 6, 2020 Posted November 6, 2020 I'm getting this issue as well. The REALLY messed up thing is that only one of the pages in the Publisher document has this behavior. Attached are screenshots. The font is Montserrat, and it displays fine inside of Publisher but not in PDF format. Again, this is only for one page of the Publisher document, the OTHER page of the Publisher document displays Montserrat in PDF format just fine. This behavior has been going on for a while, any help is much appreciated! Thank you! Quote
carl123 Posted November 6, 2020 Posted November 6, 2020 Can you upload a copy of the Publisher document? Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
DLW4000 Posted December 29, 2020 Posted December 29, 2020 (edited) I am also having this issue, particularly with the font Raleway (also a standard Google font family). Text displays as gibberish in any pdf reader (Adobe, Chrome, Edge, etc.) - have tried exporting with various settings, and from both Publisher and Designer. It happens whether the text is copied and pasted from another source, or with a new text box and typed in with the default font - if the file is exported with other fonts it exports correctly, but if the font is changed to Raleway, it exports as as mess. Raleway exported fine in a previous document using these Affinity programs... What happened? Edited December 29, 2020 by DLW4000 addition of information Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 29, 2021 Posted August 29, 2021 12 hours ago, RedBambie said: Print to pdf gets around the issue Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Yes, that would probably work. There are probably other solutions, too, if anyone reporting the problem in this thread had answered the questions we asked, or provided sample files. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Possible Affinity Posted September 15, 2024 Posted September 15, 2024 I very quickly crafted some sample files to show this gibberish problem because I am having the same issue. The gibberish font is https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/crimson and was added to my mac font book and available from the menu in Affinity Publisher 2 Printing to PDF destroys hyperlinks so that isn't an option. Exporting to image files preserves the font but removes hyperlinks. Note: these may be a mess because the originals were imported from pdfs generated by Adobe CC. 20240915fontGibberish.afpub 20240915fontGibberish.pdf Quote
Possible Affinity Posted September 15, 2024 Posted September 15, 2024 This is how it opens in Chrome and Preview. Other iterations of this problem had the bullets rendering as double quotes. Sometimes the central doted line was completely mucked up. Quote
kenmcd Posted September 16, 2024 Posted September 16, 2024 21 hours ago, Possible Affinity said: The gibberish font is https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/crimson and was added to my mac font book and available from the menu in Affinity Publisher 2 First, get rid of the version of the fonts from FontSquirrel. The names inside the fonts are bad and cause conflicts. There is an updated version of Crimson Text on Google fonts. The names have been fixed and the character set has been expanded. Still six styles. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Crimson+Text Current ongoing development of Crimson is being done in Crimson Pro. Expanded to 16 styles and also has variable fonts. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Crimson+Pro So give those a try and see if that solves your issue. Quote
Possible Affinity Posted September 16, 2024 Posted September 16, 2024 Thanks for the pro-tip @kenmcd, I'll give it a try. kenmcd 1 Quote
Possible Affinity Posted September 16, 2024 Posted September 16, 2024 I notice there's an "AffinityFonts" folder - do I have to do anything by way of adding to that folder in order for downloaded fonts to work? Quote
kenmcd Posted September 16, 2024 Posted September 16, 2024 6 minutes ago, Possible Affinity said: I notice there's an "AffinityFonts" folder - do I have to do anything by way of adding to that folder in order for downloaded fonts to work? No. Just install the fonts in your OS as you would normally. Quote
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