tariq Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Attached is a sample PDF. Importing into Photo to rasterise it results in a rendition, with incorrect text font selection. The same PDF when opened in MacOS Preview to export as PNG works beautifully. This is on the same computer and so the same fonts are available. Attached also is the warning on import that fonts are missing (they're obviously not missing). However with other PDFs I've noticed poor rendition even when fonts don't appear to be missing. You may be asking why I want to import PDFs into Photo - the reason is to convert them to bitmaps and prepare them for a bitmap target eg a web page or images in a presentation. lyx_test.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tariq Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 ps - I'm using the latest MacOS and latest Affinity Photo from the Apple Store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 12, 2020 Staff Share Posted July 12, 2020 Hi tariq, The fonts display correctly in Preview because it supports embedded fonts. Affinity apps currently don't support them and thus use (or replace them if not available) the fonts installed on the system (which sometimes may be a different version than the ones embedded in the document) leading to some differences. Likewise we do not support PDF passthrough, rasterise PDF's on import until support for embedded fonts is implemented. benwiggy 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tariq Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 thanks - I guess reading between the lines support for embedded fonts is something that will happen in future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benwiggy Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 On 7/12/2020 at 12:40 PM, MEB said: Hi tariq, The fonts display correctly in Preview because it supports embedded fonts. Affinity apps currently don't support them and thus use (or replace them if not available) the fonts installed on the system (which sometimes may be a different version than the ones embedded in the document) leading to some differences. Likewise we do not support PDF passthrough, rasterise PDF's on import until support for embedded fonts is implemented. Dear MEB This is really something that should be in the FAQs, because it comes up all the time, and Serif really need to set out their 'direction' on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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