Shushan Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I'm compiling a collection of work by other authors, which involves a lot of copy and pasting from odt. documents. I was happy to see that all the formatting from the odt. documents seemed to be recognised by the Affinity software, and all was going well until I exported the file as a PDF. Everything else is presenting fine, but the italics in the copy and pasted text aren't showing up. I've tried retyping them in the Affinity file and checked to make sure it recognises them as italic. Nothing seems to be working. Interestingly, in the text that has been originally typed in the Affinity software, bold text shows up fine. Please advise on how I can carry my italics through to PDF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Shushan Posted May 16, 2020 Author Share Posted May 16, 2020 3 minutes ago, Lagarto said: Do you mean that you actually see italics as italics within an Affinity app, but that text just does not retain the formatting when exported to PDF, or that when you copy paste text that is in italics in the source document, will appear straight in an Affinity app? If the former, which font are you using? If the latter, then the source document might use "fake" italics, which slants the glyphs instead of using a separate font file, and this is not supported in Affinity apps, so all these kinds of stylings will be removed when pasted. Thanks for getting back to me! I mean the former; the italics appear as italics in Affinity but straighten when I export to the PDF. I'm using the Amiri font (I checked in the font menu and Affinity does appear to have the Italics version). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Shushan Posted May 16, 2020 Author Share Posted May 16, 2020 Thank you! This has been very helpful. 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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